Milestone Exploration for Teachers
Geography & Culture
Cooking Video
Lesson Plan: Cultures, Food, and Communities Around the World
Students explore different cultures around the world, compare worldwide communities with local communities, and explain the interrelationships between the environment and community development.
Provide examples of agricultural products available, but not produced in their local area and state (T5.3-5.e)
Explain the value of agriculture and how it is important in daily life. (T5.3-5.d)
Discuss similarities and differences in food, clothing and shelter, and fuel sources among world cultures (T2.3-5.a)
Objective 1 People can have different views of the same places and regions.
Objective 1 People's different perceptions of places and regions are influenced by their life experience.
Where in the World?
Lesson Plan: The Columbian Exchange of Old and New World Foods
Students explore New World and Old World food origins to discover how the Columbian Exchange altered people's lives worldwide.
Explain how events and inventions affect how Americans live today (e.g., Eli Whitney – cotton gin; Cyrus McCormick – reaper; Virtanen – silo; Pasteur – pasteurization; John Deere – moldboard plow) (T5.3-5.c)
Discuss similarities and differences in food, clothing and shelter, and fuel sources among world cultures (T2.3-5.a)
Objective 4 Gather data in order to explain the effects of the diffusion of food crops and animals between the Western and Eastern hemispheres after the voyages of Columbus.
Objective 1 Assess ways in which the exchange of plants and animals around the world in the late 15th and 16th centuries affected European, Asian, African, and American Indian societies and commerce.
What's for Lunch?
Lesson Plan: Cultures, Food, and Communities Around the World
Students explore different cultures around the world, compare worldwide communities with local communities, and explain the interrelationships between the environment and community development.
Provide examples of agricultural products available, but not produced in their local area and state (T5.3-5.e)
Explain the value of agriculture and how it is important in daily life. (T5.3-5.d)
Discuss similarities and differences in food, clothing and shelter, and fuel sources among world cultures (T2.3-5.a)
Objective 1 People can have different views of the same places and regions.
Objective 1 People's different perceptions of places and regions are influenced by their life experience.
Food Supply Chain
Food Supply Chain Tutorial Video (Coming Soon)
This tutorial video will walk you through the Food Supply Chain activity.
Lesson Plan: By Land, Air, or Sea
Students discover how agricultural commodities are transported from producers to consumers.
Provide examples of agricultural products available, but not produced in their local area and state (T5.3-5.e)
Explain the value of agriculture and how it is important in daily life. (T5.3-5.d)
Diagram the path of production for a processed product, from farm to table (T3.3-5.b)
Objective 1 Global connections may be of various types (e.g., cultural exchange, trade, political, economic, or travel).
Objective 8 The goods and services produced in the market and those produced by the government.
Holiday Traditions
Lesson Plan: Cultures, Food, and Communities Around the World
Students explore different cultures around the world, compare worldwide communities with local communities, and explain the interrelationships between the environment and community development.
Provide examples of agricultural products available, but not produced in their local area and state (T5.3-5.e)
Explain the value of agriculture and how it is important in daily life. (T5.3-5.d)
Discuss similarities and differences in food, clothing and shelter, and fuel sources among world cultures (T2.3-5.a)
Objective 1 People can have different views of the same places and regions.
Objective 1 People's different perceptions of places and regions are influenced by their life experience.