Discover the meaning of Columbus Day and/or Thanksgiving by creating art from food. This activity focuses on making edible ships using easy to find food items. The class will investigate the journeys that were taken for either of these...

Students explore English by participating in a role-playing activity. In this food ordering lesson, students utilize new vocabulary terms to conduct short dialogues with fictitious servers in a Cafe role-play activity. Students analyze...

Fourth graders explore number values by utilizing a candy bar in class. In this fraction lesson, 4th graders divide pizza and candy amongst each other in order to identify parts of a whole and fractions. Students answer several fraction...

Students listen to The Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle and use a teacher created puppet for a listening activity.  In this Hungry Caterpillar lesson, students recall the order of events in the story with the puppet and cards of the...

Sixth graders use adjectives to describe foods listed in restaurant menus. In cooperative groups, 6th graders create menus and identify the adjectives used in the menu created by their group.

Students explore different styles of writing. In this writing lesson, students look at menus to get an idea of how many different types of writing there are. Students create their own menus and add border and clip art.

Students make and decorate a replica of a North Carolina coiled pot after summarizing why archaeologists study pottery and how Indian people of North Carolina made and used coiled pottery.