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Create a Cookbook
Trios write, design, and produce cookbooks. In a truly collaborative project, they choose what content to include, contribute recipes, and decide on formatting. Then, they reformat all recipes to ensure consistent style, publish the...
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Family Cookbook
Second graders, in groups, produce a Family Cookbook by bringing recipes from home.
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Clever Cooking Book Review Directions
In this literature and literacy worksheet, students select a recipe from a cookbook to review. They investigate the type of food it entails, the ingredients and tools need to make the food, and the safety concerns. They cook the recipe...
This Reading Mama
Compound Word Pack
Class + room = classroom! And your class + this compound word game = fun and learning! Kids match cards that include words and sometimes images to create compound words.
E Reading Worksheets
Main Idea Worksheet 5
Did you know that Marie Curie's papers, as well as her cookbook, are radioactive and stored in lead-lined boxes? Did you know that Nikola Tesla developed a death ray? Famous scientists and inventors are the subjects featured in a series...
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Grow Your Own Grub
Students create a recipe book. In this produce lesson, students watch a selection of the harvest animations from the BBC Dig In website, taste some of the vegetable and herbs they've been growing and discuss creating a class recipe...
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Nutrition Matters
Investigate nutrition and the food pyramid. Fifth graders will use computer software to write a paragraph about nutrition. They will then diagram the food pyramid and gather and organize a collection of healthy recipes.
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Cooking With Your Three Sisters
Students make food based on recipes they got from their ancestors and make the original recipes and healthier versions. In this food lesson plan, students bring their recipes to class and see if their classmates can tell the difference.
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Family Heritage Cookbook
Students compare favorite family recipes. For this cultural diversity lesson, students interview family members and record favorite recipes. Students examine cultural diversity through favorite foods.
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Diversity/Journalism - Book Making
Third graders explore Canadian culture by creating a book. In this community analysis lesson, 3rd graders identify the First Nations people of Canada and discuss the culture, language and diversity. Students create a book discussing...
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La cocina del mundo hispanohablante
Seventh graders chose a Spanish speaking country. They research the cuisine of that country. They find recipe which they word process the recipe in both English and Spanish before adding it to a class recipe book.
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Food From Around the World
Students identify foods from around the world. In this multicultural lesson, students use Internet resources to research a specific country and the foods which are popular. Students collect a single recipe to combine with recipes from...
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Cooking a Few of my Favorite Things
Second graders publish a class cookbook of their own recipes. They explore the nutritional value of foods, calculate the measurements, and prepare a healthy recipe for the class.
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Homer's "The Odyssey": Research Project
High schoolers complete a research or creative project in response to Homer's "The Odyssey". They research and design costumes, create cookbooks, compile a book of ancient weapons or illustrate portions of the poem. Students then present...
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Mystery Recipe Lab
Pupils engage in a lesson that is concerned with the concept of cooking a new recipe. The book "Cook-a-Doodle-Doo" is used to create the context for the lesson. They use the ingredients and recipe in the lesson and work in groups in...
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Celebration of Cultures
Learners create a multimedia project to represent their own culture and personal identity. They design a personal Coat of Arms using a computer graphics program and digital camera, write a script and film an interview, and contribute a...
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Fourth graders research and write an author report on Roald Dahl, including books written by him, birthplace, family life, and other information on his writing. Students read aloud chapters in the book. Students create a newspaper...
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We Are Family
Students participate in a class discussion about their family structures. Students also discuss the family diversity of their peers and others in the world. They investigate family habits, family history, values and traditions their...
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Rice is Nice
First graders explore Japanese foods through fairy tales, fiction and nonfiction books, cooking meals and eating with chopsticks. After all of the creative ideas have been utilized, the class holds a tea party for parents in the classroom.
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You're The Chef
First graders view an animated picture book at a web site. The book provides step-by-step instructions on how to prepare a hamburger. After exploring the book, groups of children will create cookbook recipes by drawing a picture and...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Silly Stories: Challenge Activities (Theme 1)
This packet, the first in the series of support materials for the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt thematic units on silly stories, contains enrichment activities for learners who have mastered the basic concepts of the lessons.
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"How Sweet It Is: Awareness Today Can Defeat Diabetes Tomorrow"
Pupils explain the importance of having a healthy body and be inspired to make better choices. They research diabetes to become aware of its symptoms, dangers, and prevention. They identify the relationship between childhood obesity and...
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Once Upon a Time: Writing Stories about Reading
Students read a New York Times article to examine strong first person voice in essays about reading. They write their own first person essays about some aspect of reading, participate in peer review, and re-writing.
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Eating Over the Rainbow
Young scholars examine their own diets, and then redesign the USDA's Food Pyramid to reflect nutrition experts' latest advice. They read and discuss The Color of Nutrition: Fruits and Vegetables, which is an article imbedded in this plan.