Milestone Exploration for Students
Cooking Video
Suggested Book
Hungry Planet: What the World Eats by Peter Menzel and Faith D'Alusio
Hungry Planet profiles 30 families from around the world—including Bosnia, Chad, Egypt, Greenland, Japan, the United States, and France—and offers detailed descriptions of weekly food purchases; photographs of the families at home, at market, and in their communities; and a portrait of each family surrounded by a week's worth of groceries. This captivating chronicle offers a riveting look at what the world really eats.
Article
What Kids Eat Around the World
This article features photographic excerpts from the book Daily Bread by Gregg Segal, which visualizes what an entire week's diet looks like for children around the globe.
Game
Where in the World?
Calling all detectives! Someone stole facts from the My American Farm library and it's your job to trot-the-globe to find them. Take a journey, learn the facts, bring them home and win a reward.
Where in the World?
Suggested Book
The Story of Food: An Illustrated History of Everything We Eat by DK
This glorious visual celebration of food in all its forms reveals the extraordinary cultural impact of the foods we eat, explores the early efforts of humans in their quest for sustenance, and tells the fascinating stories behind individual foods of all types, from nuts to grains, fruits and vegetables, and meat and fish, to herbs and spices, this fascinating culinary historical reference provides the facts on all aspects of each food's unique story.
Websites
Columbian Exchange Wiki
Information about the widespread transfer of plants, animals, precious metals, commodities, culture, human populations, technology, diseases, and ideas between the New World (the Americas) in the Western Hemisphere and the Old World (Afro-Eurasia) in the Eastern Hemisphere in the late 15th and following centuries.
List of Food Origins Wiki
A list of foods and the continent where they were originated or were originally domesticated.
Food Timeline
Ever wonder how the ancient Romans fed their armies? What the pioneers cooked along the Oregon Trail? Who invented the potato chip…and why? So do we! Food history presents a fascinating buffet of popular lore and contradictory facts. Some experts say it's impossible to express this topic in exact timeline format. They are correct. Most foods are not invented; they evolve. We make food history fun.
Answer Key
Old World and New World Foods
Classify foods as Old World Foods or New World Foods using this answer key.
What's for Lunch?
Suggested Book
What's for Lunch?: How Schoolchildren Eat Around the World by Andrea Curtis
Every day, all over the world children eat together at school. Compare and contrast school lunch in different countries and cultures. Each page has a photograph of a typical lunch along with a detailed description about the menu and what school lunch is like.
Video
What School Lunch Looks Like Around the World
Lunch time at school can be one of the best parts of a kid's day. From aloo gosht in Pakistan to sausage rolls in Australia and smoky, tomato-y jollof rice in Nigeria, we're taking a look at what kids around the world eat for lunch.
Video
School Lunches Around the World
These lunches are cool enough for school. Take a look at what kids eat for school lunch in the United Kingdom, the United States, Cuba, Norway, Nigeria, France, Russia, Mexico, Japan, the Philippines, India, and Korea.
Video
What is a Venn Diagram?
A simple introduction to the concept of Venn diagrams
Food Supply Chain
Food Supply Chain Tutorial Video (Coming Soon)
This tutorial video will walk you through the Food Supply Chain activity.
Suggested Book
Pickles to Pittsburgh by Judi Barrett
In Pickles to Pittsburgh, the sequel to Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Kate drifts off to sleep and, with her brother Henry as her copilot, visits the land of Chewandswallow—a land characterized by massive amounts of food, immense carrots, leafy jungles of lettuce, and tuna fish sandwiches so gigantic they have to be moved by helicopter. And what the people of Chewandswallow are doing with all that food is most intriguing of all! Even though this book is fictional, consider how some of these modes of transportation are used in real life to get agricultural products from producers to consumers.
Videos
Discover how five different agricultural commodities are transported from producers to consumers.
Holiday Traditions
Suggested Book
A Taste of the World: What People Eat and How They Celebrate Around the Globe by Little Gestalten
Festive feasts from around the world bring people together to celebrate and share stories. A Taste of the World travels across the globe uncovering different dishes, traditions, cultures, and festivals from Egypt to Germany, Hanami in Japan, Chinese New Year, and a good old roast dinner in the UK. A Taste of the World will give you an appetite to explore.
Video
What Christmas Dinner Around the World Looks Like
From fried chicken to stuffed seal, here's a look at the many different dishes eaten around the world for the festive season.