Craft Lesson 5

Yum! MmMm! Que Rico!: America's Sproutings

by Pat Mora

Favorite Food

Resource Materials:

Mora, Pat. Yum! MmMm! Que Rico!: America's Sproutings. Illus. Rafael Lopez. New York: Lee & Low Books, Inc., 2007.

Discussion:

Everybody has a favorite food, but does everybody know where it originates. In

Yum! MmMm! Que Rico!: America's Sproutings you get a brief introduction to some of the Americas foods. This book is a great teaching opportunity for 4^th or 5^th graders to learn about there favorite food.

How to teach it:

A great way to teach favorite foods to children is to have them research their favorite food, and for them to give a presentation on what they learned. During the research make sure that the class is taking full advantage of all the research material that is available to them, from the library to the internet. By using the internet for research it will help them learn what that they can explore many different perspectives of information regarding their subject. This project will also reinforce responsibility and self-reliance by having them do the project by themselves.