Culinary Arts 1 and 2 Model

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Lesson Plan Originally Created By: Heather Ortiz

Culture and food (2 of 4)

Part of Unit: Cultural and Global Food

Lesson Plan Overview / Details

How does the location, culture and history of a country or region affect the food that they eat?

Students learn new information through reading, and share what they have learned with their group. The idea is that students are exposed to as many different cultures as possible so that they can make an informed / educated decision as a group about which region or country they might want to choose for their final project (Lesson 3 in this series)

Lesson Times

Classroom/Lab
1 Class Period

Student Objectives / Goals

  • Students will become familiar with a number of different cultures and their food - number based on how many countries they are exposed to in their group(s).
  • Students will develop a better understanding of geography and different aspects of culture on the food that people eat.

Standards

California Career and Technical Education Standards

Consumer and Family Studies (CFS) Standards Detail

HTR – F10.4 Standard 24: Food Culture and Etiquette
Students understand commonly accepted food customs as well as table setting, meal
service, and etiquette practices of the United States and other cultures.

24.4 Identify cultural differences affecting the preparation and service of food. (HTR – F10.4.4)
CFS-HS-2007
24.5 Research and compare food preparation techniques, table settings, meal
etiquette, food habits, and traditions of different cultures. (HTR – F10.4.5)

Vocabulary terms (all definitions from dictionary.com)

Customs
a habitual practice; the usual way of acting in given circumstances.
Economics
the science that deals with the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services, or the material welfare of humankind.
Environment
the social and cultural forces that shape the life of a person or a population.
Geographic Setting
of or pertaining to the natural features, population,industries, etc., of a region or regions.
Nutrition
the act or process of nourishing or of being nourished; the process by which organisms take in and utilize food material.
Politics
the complex or aggregate of relationships of people in society, especially those relationships involving authority or power

Activities in this Lesson

  • Food and it's role in culture - Group Work

    (This lesson follows lesson 1 in the series as the students will have just been acquainted with the 5 Themes of Geography in the previous lesson) (50 minutes) 

    (5 minutes) Introduce activity / have students make grid as described below (or print one out for them to fill in - see example attached, example is geared towards the country information from foodbycountry.com)

    (Teacher Note: any resource of different cultures can be used for this activity - text book, article or web site - the site that I use is foodbycountry.com, I have attached several links to help you get there easily.  The vocabulary words below are words that may not be familiar to all students that are used in the foodbycountry.com summaries.  I have condensed the countries to word docs as I do not have computers in my room, so having the students work directly on the computer is not an option.  A couple of samples of those word docs are attached.)

    Note: there are a couple of ways that you could divide out the countries:

    1) Hand out a different country to each student in the class, then re-group students so that they are not sitting with anyone from their kitchen group; once they have shared within their "new group" and filled out their grid, have them go back to their kitchen groups and between all members they will have been exposed to as many countries as there are students in the entire class.  This will be good exposure for when they choose their country for their project tomorrow.

    OR

    2) Have students stay in their kitchen group the whole time, hand out as many different countries as there are students in that group, once they have shared out with the group, the exposure will be to the number of countries there are people in the group.

    (30 minutes)  One person in each group skim a different excerpt from a text about different food cultures taking notes on how geography, climate, indigeneous vegetation, people, etc  have affected the food traditions/culture in that country or region, popular dishes.  (each person makes a grid to fill in their information and then everyone else's while they share - example attached)

    (15 minutes) After everyone in group has finished, each student has 3 minutes to share out with group teaching what they learned about their region/country. (filling in grid with group members information)

    Students will use the grids in the next lesson when they choose their country for their final project.  If you used option 1 above, the groups will have collectively been exposed to as many countries as there are people in the class.    

     (Vocabulary Note: I added some definitions to the lesson for words that may not be well enough understood by the students in order to get the most out of the assignment, feel free to work in at your discretion)

Assessment

Assessment Types:
Completed Grids

Students will spend the period filling out grids with the required information first with the information about their country, and then with information from group members about other countries.  A thorough grid filled out by each person will assess the job done by each group member.