📓 Ingredient Empathy Journal Checkpoint

Students use a simple template to capture who is affected by ingredient choices: eaters, growers, and cooks. They review notes from the kickoff, add one plant-part label chart, and write a short evidence-based response to the essential question using journal sketches and tasting notes. A brief teacher conference serves as a milestone gate to check that students can distinguish observations from opinions and identify one natural resource or growing condition tied to an ingredient.