Map Your Meal Gr. 6-8

Students will learn how food and the environment are interconnected by tracing the origins of ingredients in a recipe and investigating how to eat seasonally in their hardiness zone.

Curricular Connections:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.7
Integrate information presented in different media or formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively) as well as in words to develop a coherent understanding of a topic or issue.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.7.2
Determine two or more central ideas in a text and analyze their development over the course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.8.2
Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to supporting ideas; provide an objective summary of the text.

Family Letter:

This lesson includes a Family Letter, a one-page handout that is ready for teachers to send home to families (or include in their electronic updates) after delivering Pilot Light Food Education lessons in their classrooms. With these letters, we aim to strengthen the school-home connection and deepen family/caregiver involvement, as well as support teachers in their ability to authentically share classroom activities with families.

Lesson written in partnership with the Urban School Food Alliance.

• Classroom to Cafeteria
• environment
• Family Letter
• ingredients
• quesadilla
• research