Classroom Activities
Students will be given opportunities to engage with the curriculum unit by completing the following activities:
- Students can work in groups of 3-4 to virtually purchase foods from a list provided by the teacher from grocery stores or farmers' markets in their community and surrounding communities. They will discuss if they can find the item at the grocery store assigned to them, the price of it, and why it is or is not equitable for the item to be accessible to them as consumers and why.
- Students can bring in one of their favorite or traditional recipes from home to research the availability and accessibility of the items, their nutritional values, the price of those items compared to local grocery stores, online merchants, and surrounding areas.
- Students will research how to write a grant and take the essential parts from their research to write a persuasive paper on obtaining funding for a garden to grow foods for their consumption or sell to promote financial literacy in the humanities.
- Students will read food and nutrition labels to better comprehend to whom the food may be appealing and if race and ethnicity play a part in determining that.
- Students will count the number of food ads that are shown in a 1-hour time span, foods that are not necessarily considered to be nutritious and compare the commercials they saw versus how many I saw during that same block of time (an at home assignment-to be brought back to school)
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