Teacher-Written Lesson

Culinary Arts In Social Studies & the 5 Themes of Geography: Where in the World is Potato?

  • Written by Michele Jeanmarie
  • 55 minutes; pre-planning is a definite must

Lesson Overview

Students will identify the key elements of Pentecost Sunday, the Tower of Babylon and its collapse.

Students will contrast denotative and connotative interpretations and identify the one that caused the collapse of the tower.

Students will recognize that when admonished to the four corners of the world, the people took with them certain traditions and customs.

Students will attribute these traditions and customs to cultural borrowing as they integrate the culinary arts as way to heighten their awareness of the 5 Themes of Geography.

Recommended For

Grade Level: Middle School

Subject: Geography

Learner: Traditional Classroom, Advanced Placement, Homeschooled Students, Gifted Learners, English Language Learners

Tagged as: tower of babylon,  revolutionary war,  pentecost,  england,  china,  american history

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Culinary Arts In Social Studies & the 5 Themes of Geography: Where in the World is Tea?

  • Written by Michele Jeanmarie
  • 55 minutes; pre-planning is a definite must

Lesson Overview

Students will identify the key elements of Pentecost Sunday, the Tower of Babylon and its collapse.

Students will contrast denotative and connotative interpretations and identify the one that caused the collapse of the tower.

Students will recognize that when admonished to the four corners of the world, the people took with them certain traditions and customs.

Students will integrate the culinary arts to heighten their awareness of "cultural borrowing." 

Students will culminate their unit leading up to the Revolutionary War with an actual simulation of a Tea Party, British style.

Recommended For

Grade Level: Elementary

Subject: Geography, History, U.S. History, Colonial Era

Learner: Traditional Classroom, Gifted Learners, English Language Learners

Tagged as: tower of babylon,  revolutionary war,  pentecost,  england,  china,  american history

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