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Students will learn to:

1. Distinguish between country and continent.
2. Recognize diversity of Black cultural expresion
3. Realize the importance of nutrients in foods we eat
4. Explore the ways in which people saved money
5. Learn lifelong culinary skills
6. Relate culinary arts to occupations
7. Learn the vocabulary of the exhibit
8. Recognize the countries of Africa

Prerequisite Skills:

1. To be able to contrast and compare
2. To be able to conduct research
3. To be able to read a chart
4. To be able to categorize information

Activities:

1. Students can create puzzles of the African continent by drawing on paper, coloring, and pasting on cardboard. Older students can engage in a word search puzzle of all the countries of Africa.
   
   
2. Create a chart of foods popularly eaten in the Diaspora. (example)
   
   
3. Interview a family member or person in the community to find out what foods they ate while growing up. A tape recorder can be used if the student has one. Ask the person how their health is. Be ready to explain any connections between the person's diet and physical health. (Teacher will give students the food group chart, basic vitamins contained in each, benefits to body, and conditions resulting from lack of particular foods.) Alternatively, lower grades can make food group costumes and choose their favorite foods to tell three different facts about. This could be done as a skit or through puppetry.
   
   
4. Check newspapers and magazines for food advertisements, prices per pound or unit, and pictures of people eating. What are they eating? What messages are TV, radio, and magazine advertisements giving about foods? Younger studetns can select three foods and find prices for each in three different stores. They can look for pricies int he supermarket and local grocery store, and in newspaper advertisements. If parents use coupons, students can write down the item(s) and the amount(s) saved.
   
   
5. Ask students to share their favorite dish and describe to the class how it is prepared. Demonstrate step-by-step, using a poster illustration.
   
   
6. Students will be asked to think of industries that deal with foods. We will research these businesses; what they do; how what they do is directly related to food; how much money people working in this field make. Older students can use the classifed section of the newspaper to locate job titles, qualifications, and salaries offered. Students can form a groups and deliver oral reports of their findings. Lower grades can make costumes and role play to see if the rest of the class can guess what type of workers they are. Lower grades can also cut out pictures from a magazine and make a collage, or draw a picture of their favorite occupation.
   
   
7. Alphabetize the countries of Africa. (answer key)