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Standard 2 Objective 3 in Geography for Life Social Studies Core Evaluate how culture and experience influence the way people live in places and regions.
Standard 6512-03 in Library Media/Information Literacy 7-12 Students will locate resources and access information within resources
AASL Standard 2- Draw conclusions, make informed decisions, apply knowledge to new situations, and create new knowledge. 2.2.3 Employ a critical stance in drawing conclusions by demonstrating that the pattern of evidence leads to a decision or conclusion.
Objective: Learning about food in different parts of the world and why people have different diets around the world. Do a research project using the Big 6.
Read the book What the World Eats by Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio
computers and the internet and Pioneer Library available through Utah Schools
Objective: Learning about food in different parts of the world and why people have different diets around the world. Do a research project using the Big 6.
Read the book What the World Eats by Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio
1. Task Identification
Choose 3-5 countries in 3-5 different continents. Choose a minimum of 3. List 5 basics facts about the country focusing on agriculture, population, and food sources. Then research different recipes of that particular country.
2. Information Seeking Strategies
a. Determine the range of possible sources. Briefly explain the difference between a encyclopedia, almanac, dictionary, and directory
b. Evaluate the different possible sources to determine priorities. Which of these resources will be the most helpful to you.
3. Location and Access
Let’s start with an online atlas. It will give you some ideas of different countries.
At www.nationalgeographic.com/maps/index.html
Now that you’ve chosen your 3 countries let’s do some basic research
Go to www.pioneer.uen.org
Click on the World Book Encyclopedia.
Write down 3-5 facts about your 3 countries focusing on agriculture and food.
Next click on Culturegrams within the same website
Type in your country and see what more you can find. Notice the recipe section. Write down at least 3 more facts to your research.
You can also look at EBSCO and SIRIS Discoverer if you feel like you need more information.
Pioneer Online Library is great but it is not the only resource out there. There are other Reference Resources that might give you a different perspective on your research.
Using Online Directories and Almanacs
www.almanac.com The Old Farmer’s Almanac offers info about food, weather, gardening, today in history and more.
www.fda.gov/default.htm Food and Drug Administration offers products FDA regulates, a-z index, food industry, and more
www.infoplease.com Is a fun website that gives you interesting facts about different things. It’s a fact finder.
4. Information Use
Now that you have found all your information it is important for you to gather it all together and make sense of it.
You are now going to make a chart that will compare your 3 countries on 3 different continents with the food they eat. Get a poster or large piece of paper and make 4 columns. In the first column you will write the following:
1. Country
2. Population
3. Agriculture what type (example: trees, underground, livestock, etc.)
4. Foods they grow
5. Foods they eat
6. Do they import much food?
7. Recipes that are popular for that country
The other 3 columns will hold the information for the 3 different countries you have chosen.
By making this chart it will help you to visualize your information and compare and contrast the 3 different countries.
5. Synthesis
Now that you have gathered your data write at least a 5 sentence paragraph for each country summarizing what you’ve learned. What food are they lacking that would give them more balanced nutrition? Then include a recipe or description of a food from that country.
6. Evaluation
Judge your final product. Does your poster and evaluation represent what you have learned about the food from the 3 different countries you have researched? Is it neat and organized? Could you cook these recipes here in America?
Conclusion
Have the students share with the class what they learned about their different countries. If possible don’t let them research the same ones so you get a wide variety. Reemphasize how useful the reference sources were for this project. They used an online atlas what benefit did it provide? They used an online encyclopedia and online database. What benefit did it provide? They also used almanacs and other bibliographic websites? How helpful was it in their research. Conclude by evaluating for this project what proved to be the most helpful. Celebrate.
