Activity: 1. Tell students that over the next week they will be learning all about food miles. Food miles is the measure of how far food has traveled from the farm to the plate. Inform students the average vegetable travels 1,500 miles, and is on average 5 days old when it arrives at the grocery store! Unfortunately, many of the nutrients and much of the flavor can be lost during this time. The increase in food miles also produces a lot of pollution which is very harmful to our Earth. 2. Using various food items, show students how you can read containers and the stickers on fruits and vegetables to find out where it came from. Explain that they will be doing the very same thing in order to learn more about food miles. 3. Distribute the Food Miles Recording Sheet. Demonstrate how to use this sheet by recording the name of a food item and the state or country of origin. 4. Next, find the location on the world or state map, and color or mark it. 5. Finally, calculate the approximate food miles by visiting http://www.organiclinker.com/food-miles.cfm. (Note: This site calculates an approximate food miles measurement.) Write this down for each food product on the Food Miles Recording Sheet.