Download This Full Lesson: Breads Around the World
Lesson Description: Students learn the cultural and nutritional significance of bread throughout the world by working in groups to solve a logic-matrix activity.
Objectives
The student will work in a group to:
- describe the significance of bread in world nutrition and culture;
- identify the three main global food grain crops and match forms of bread to them;
- identify 10 forms of bread along with the cultures in which they developed; and
- locate the countries or regions of origin of the 10 cultures on a world map.
Estimated Teaching Time
- Session One: 20 to 30 minutes.
- Sessions Two and Three: 45 to 60 minutes each.
Alignments
Grades 3-5 Writing: Text Types and Purposes – 1a, 1b, 2a, 2b
Writing: Production & Distribution of Writing – 4
Speaking & Listening – Comprehension & Collaboration – 1
Grade 4 Number & Operations – Fractions – 4.NF4
Grade 5 Number & Operations – Fractions – 5.NF.4, 5.NF.6, 5.NF.7
Grades 6-8 Writing: Text Types and Purposes – 2a, 2b
Writing: Production & Distribution of Writing – 4
Speaking & Listening: Comprehension & Collaboration – 1
Grades 9-12 Writing: Text Types and Purposes – 2a, 2b
Writing: Production & Distribution of Writing – 4
Speaking & Listening: Comprehension & Collaboration – 1