Food
and Culture |
Intermediate/High
School |
Food,
being a cultural product, is selected as the primary
stimulus to further exploration of the perspectives,
practices, history and geography of the target
culture. |
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Comprehensive
Reading |
Intermediate |
A
story about the history of chocolate followed by
comprehension questions |
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Various
Language Arts Skills |
Elementary |
Storytelling,
alphabetizing, sequencing, rhyming, critical thinking |
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Juvenile Fiction |
K
-1 |
A
list of picture books that have food based stories |
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Fast
Food Around the World |
6-8 |
Students
will research other cultures and write plans for
fast food restaurants in them |
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Creative Writing: What’s
in Your Lunch? |
4-9 |
Two
lessons involve writing about a mystery package
in your lunchbox and then changing the voice from
first person to third. |
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Response
Writing |
5-12 |
This
lesson uses Oreo cookies to motivate students to
write about how they feel personally. |
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Food-Related Phrasal Verbs
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English
as a Second Language |
This
story contains many food-related phrasal verbs
with contextual clues to their meanings. There
is also a link to a quiz about the verbs. |
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Process
Analysis Pre-writing Activity |
9 |
This
lesson uses peanut butter sandwiches to teach students
how to organize thoughts or use specific language. |
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Ernest Hemingway |
Various grade
levels |
This
site contains links to many lesson plans and enrichment
materials regarding Hemingway. |
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I
Had a Dinner Party |
8-10 |
A
multidisciplinary unit with emphasis on research,
evaluating materials, and writing dialogue. |
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P is for Pizza |
K |
Seven
modules use pizza to help children learn the letter
P. |
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Who
Wants to be a Gingerbread Boy? |
K |
This
lesson uses the gingerbread boy story to develop
speaking, listening, and written communications
skills. |
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Food Groups |
K |
This
lesson emphasizes listening, speaking, and reading
skills in addition to nutrition. |
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Learning
to Bake a Cake |
K |
This
is a lesson in prereading and prewriting |
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Let’s Write a Recipe |
K |
This
lesson emphasizes listening and speaking, relationship
words, and reading. |
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Cool
Foods |
K |
This
is a lesson in oral communication. |
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You’re Peeking |
K |
This
lesson builds reading skills through classifying
by characteristics such as color, size, shape,
structure, and function. |
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Fun
Restaurant Logo Match |
K |
This
lesson teaches associating sounds with letters. |
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Going Grocery Shopping |
K |
This
lesson emphasizes listening, speaking, and reading
skills in addition to nutrition. |
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Make a Menu |
3+ |
Students
will practice their descriptive writing skills
by designing and writing a menu for a fictional
restaurant. |
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Narrative Writing Prompt |
Elementary |
This
lesson encourages students to use vivid verbs and
interesting adjectives to describe “What
if Clouds Were Made of Marshmallow Goo?” |
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If You Give a Pig a Pancake |
1 |
This
is a lesson that builds comprehension skills and
story telling. |
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar |
1 |
This
is a lesson to build sequencing and comprehension
skills. |
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Turn on Inventiveness -
Potato Possibilities |
4-6 |
This
lesson teaches seeing in new ways, visualization,
observation, and creative writing. |
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A Day Full of Popcorn |
K-3 |
For
one day, all activities will center around popcorn.
Language Arts lessons include reading about popcorn
legends. A popcorn bibliography is included. |
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