By: Cindy Ives EDU 553 ECSU
Materials: Student collected recipes
Student made menus
Paper and Pencils
Computer with Print Shop (or Word, if Print Shop not available)
TV or projector that hooks up to computer
Objectives: Students will take what they have learned about Mexican food and the food pyramid to create a class menu and individual menus to share with their families.
Standards: Social Studies
# 11 � Human Systems: understand the elements of culture and how
they change.
Technology
# 3 � Career Awareness: describe how mathematics, science, language
arts, social studies, and the arts are related to technology.
# 4 � Problem Solving, Research, and Development: gather, record, and
organize data, based on observations.
Procedure:
1. Have students take out their folders with their recipes and food pyramid.
2. Create one classroom menu together on Print Shop, or Word. Have students
suggest recipes to use for each food group and pick the top 3 favorites for each
food group.
3. Allow students to suggest font type, font color, background color, pictures, as
well as the recipes. Allow students to come up to the computer attached to
projector or TV and help create the menu.
4. Tell students that the class menu and their menus will be sent home and/or
posted on class website for parents� to see. Their parents will be asked to pick
what they would like to be served at family night/open house. The meal from
each food group that is picked the most by their parents will be made by the
class for their parents to eat at family night/open house. Their menus are what
will be shown to the parents at family night.
5. Allow students to use Print Shop to create their own small menu with one
balanced meal/appetizer/dessert/etc. for each food group. The students should
use the recipes in their folders. They can use pictures or different colors to make
their menu appealing. (If you have few computers, pair students up to help each
other out and rotate so each gets a chance to create a menu, or use the computer
lab).
6. Circulate around the room, checking to see how students are doing. Provide any
help students may need.
7. Print off class menu and students� menus.
8. Send menus home to parents. Also, post menus on class website if have one, so
parents can access it at home.
9. Have students bring in their parents� meal choices.
Assessment: Each student will hand in a menu with balanced Mexican meals, which will be shared with parents.
Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Lesson 3 Lesson 5