Growing and Eating Food Around the World: The Story of Rice

Pre-K – 2nd Grade

Learning + Food Objectives:

Students will learn about food sources and origins by investigating how rice is grown around the world and eaten in different ways in various locations and cultures and identifying a rice dish that they have eaten before and where they ate it.

Common Core Standards:
Common Core English Language Arts

Informational Text – Making connections between information/events/ideas and self.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.K-3.3
With prompting and support, describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text.

Lesson written in partnership with the Urban School Food Alliance.