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 |
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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