Granola/Snack Mix: A Mix of Me

This lesson focuses on creating a personal granola or snack mix recipe to help students explore their food preferences and express themselves through writing. Students will learn how food connects to their identity, write an opinion piece on their unique snack mix, and share their creations with peers. The lesson integrates self-awareness, creative writing, and food education, while encouraging students to explore sensory details, diversity, and respectful communication about likes and dislikes. 

Curricular Connections:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.1
Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons.

Lesson written in partnership with the Urban School Food Alliance.

• classroom activity
• Classroom to Cafeteria
• creative expression
• creative writing lesson
• cultural food education
• diversity in food
• ELA lesson plan
• elementary ELA
• elementary writing
• food and self-awareness
• food connection
• food education
• food exploration in class
• Food identity
• food preferences
• food-based learning
• grades 3-5 ELA
• Granola
• granola lesson
• granola recipe
• opinion writing
• recipe writing
• self-expression through food
• sensory writing
• snack mix lesson
• snack mix recipe
• snacks
• social emotional learning
• writing with metaphors