Connecting Ideas to Resources - Food

The Recipe

Start with -- 1 Hungry Planet resource kit   (641.3 Hu 2007 A/V)   ADD--  1  Chew On This (394.12 SCC 2006)     1   DVD, World According to Monsanto (363.19 WO 2008 DVD) Toss in for eyebrow-raising flavour – 1   Man Eating Bugs (394.1 MEM 1998) Don’t forget to blend with – 1    Big Ideas : Linking Food, Culture, Health, and the Environment (641.3 Bi 2008) Whip in last – 1 to 6 books about fair trade and globalization (see 382’s, 303.482 and 658.827 NoL 2003 DVD)

-learn what people around the world eat and how much (or little as the case may be) - great connections to math and social studies ...  -learn how the food industry has impacted technology, affecting our everyday lives for better and worse. ... -this will be one of ‘those’ provocative books that will gross out and draw kids in at the same time. - includes all levels K-12 ...  -making cross-curricular connections for you between social studies and science. ... -take it a step further by including grade appropriate resources that will engage both geographic and historical thinking skills (part of Alberta Education’s program of studies for social studies)

Results:

Sit back and enjoy a varied and highly interesting perspective of the world, the food we eat, who has access to what kinds of foods and who controls it, globally.

Cross curricular opportunities will provide a satisfying, richly textured unit.

Serves one class.