Food Education Standard: FES 4: Food behaviors are influenced by external and internal factors

Lesson 6: Advocating for our Hungry Planet

Students analyze photos of families and their meals from different countries to explore how agriculture impacts food availability globally. The lesson also examines food access variables like transportation, fertile land, technology, religion, and perishability. The discussion emphasizes the importance of advocacy for ensuring access to nourishing and culturally relevant food for everyone.

Lesson 5: Exploring Careers in Agriculture

Students engage in a simulation game to explore economic variables that determine profits in agriculture. Then, they research and evaluate agriculture and natural resource careers related to science, engineering, and business. They will choose one of the careers and write a reflective piece about its requirements, future outlook, and impact.

Lesson 3: How It’s Made – Exploring Non-Food Agricultural Products

Students use the visual representation of a web to explore the role of agriculture in their daily lives and understand how most of the necessities of life can be traced back to the farm. Agriculture is a big umbrella term that includes many concepts, ranging from farm to fork and from field to fabric. In […]

Lesson 1: Raising Food

Students will deconstruct a ham and cheese sandwich, trace the ingredients back to the sources and determine the environmental factors and resources needed to grow/raise each ingredient. Students will then determine if their school environment could realistically support raising/growing these ingredients, building a foundational understanding of their advocacy project.

Tasty Words: Exploring Descriptive Language Through Food

Students will use food as an engaging context to build descriptive writing skills.

You Are What You Eat

Students will reflect on how their ingredient choices are the result of their unique backgrounds.

Titanic Proportions and Scaling

Students will better understand food’s role in our history and food’s relation to socio-economic status.

What’s In Your Hot Chips?

Students will compare different nutrition labels.

Tea and the Trouble in Boston

Students will evaluate the economic causes and effects of England’s tax policies on the colonies.

Tacos Al Pastor

Students will interpret and identify the sources and origins of different foods and their ingredients by analyzing immigration patterns and learning about different cultures.

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