festival foods around the world by jess monn and carla mullins
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Festival Foods Around the World
By Jess Monn
and
Carla Mullins
ED 417
Winter 2008
Third Grade
Table of Contents
Contents• Materials• Vocabulary Words• Objectives• Countries & Festivals• Daily Activities• Trivia• Websites• References
Slide Number
4
5
6
7-12
13-18
19-31
32
33
Materials
• The book Festival Foods Around the World by Becky Stull
• Map of the world
• Thumbtacks
• Different foods
• “hello” from each country
• Ditto of individual world map
Vocabulary Words
• Chao ong (Dzhow ong) Vietnamese for good day
• Ni hao (Nee HaOW ) Chinese for hello
• Bonjour (bohn-zhoor ) French for good day
• Hola (OH-lah ) Spanish for hello
• Bonjou (bohn-zhoo) Creole for hello
Objectives
• Students will learn about other cultures and be exposed to diversity.
• Students will be able to locate countries on a world map.• Students will understand the world is made up of regions
that are very different from each other in terms of climate, geography, animal life, and culture.
• Students will gain knowledge of the different geographic locations.
• Students will gain an understanding of foods eaten during different festivals.
Mexico
• During the festival held to honor an important Mexican battle, people eat tortillas, beans, and tacos.
• This festival is held in May.• People dance and sing to celebrate.
France
• During the lemon festival, people eat lemon cakes and lemon pudding.
• The festival is held in February and lasts for two weeks.
• People watch parades where floats are made from lemons.
China
• During the celebration of the Moon Festival, people make tasty moon cakes filled with red beans
• This festival is held in the fall during the full moon.
Antigua
• During the carnival festival, people eat spicy fried chicken, stewed beef, and fried vegetables called fritters.
• The carnival festival is held in late July.
Vietnam
• During the festival of the new year, people eat rice cakes wrapped in leaves.
• The festival of the new year is held in January and February.
• People watch parades that have dancing dragons.
United States
• During the festival of Mardi Gras, the people eat king cake which is a cake that has sugar icing and a doll baked inside.
• Whoever gets the doll bakes the king cake the following year.
• People watch parades.
ActivitiesDay 1
• Introduce the students to the book Festival Foods Around the World by Becky Stull. The teacher will read this to the class and will discuss the different cultures.
• The class (as a whole) will locate each country on a large map and thumbtack their locations on it.
• The students will sample moon cakes that come from China.
Activity Day 2
• The students will sample lemon cakes and lemon pudding from France.
•The students will be given a blank world map and they will complete it by labeling the countries we
are studying.
ActivitiesDay 3
• The students will sample moon cakes filled with red beans from China.
• The students will work in small groups to create a travel brochure for China.
Activities Day 4
• The students will sample spicy fried chicken and fried vegetables called fritters from Antigua.
• The students will learn the proper word for hello from the native language of each country we are covering.
HaloBonjour
ActivitiesDay 5
• The students will sample rice cakes wrapped in leaves from Vietnam.
• The students will write a journal entry on an interesting fact about the country they would like to visit.
Activity Day 6
• The students will sample a king cake from the United States that is used to celebrate Mardi Gras.
• The students will create their own book about the countries we have studied this past week.
Trivia
Question 1
• What country celebrates the carnival festival by eating spicy fried chicken, stewed beef, and fried vegetables called fritters?
Antigua
Question 2
• What country celebrates Mardi Gras by watching parades and eating a king cake?
The United States
Question 3
• What country celebrates a festival to honor an important battle by eating tortillas, tacos and beans and by singing and dancing?
Mexico
Question 4
• What country fills moon cakes with red beans during the moon festival?
China
Question 5
• What country has a festival that lasts for two weeks and its focus is on lemons?
France
Question 6
• What country watches parades that have dancing dragons to celebrate their new year festival?
Vietnam
Websites Mexican Culture
• http://mexico.pinnacle-travel.org/culture.htm#CincoDeMayo
Menton Lemon Festival
• http://www.whatsonwhen.com/sisp/index.htm?fx=event&event_id=46899
Chinese Culture
• http://chineseculture.about.com/library/weekly/aa093097.htm
Antigua Nice Ltd
• http://www.antiguanice.com/antigua_barbuda_carnival.htm
Vietnamese God
• http://vietnamesegod.blogspot.com/2006/01/new-year-in-viet-nam_10.html
Mardi Gra History
• http://www.eastjeffersonparish.com/culture/MARDIGRA/HISTORY/history.htm
References
• Festival Foods Around the World by Becky Stull
The Internet Public Library
• http://www.ipl.org/div/kidspace/ for language translations