Plenty of Options for Talking About Food in the Classroom

Elementary education

Languages

• Tempting tales: With students, create your own story about food.
• A “productive” oral presentation: Ask students to make an oral presentation about food production or processing methods for one or more foods.
• Cultivated English: Use food names to learn new vowels, consonants and rhymes.
• An appetizing dictation: Write a nutritious recipe that the children can make with their family when they go home.
• Word searches or crosswords: Fill in a puzzle whose words are nutritious foods or have a definition based on the concept of body image.

Mathematics, Science and Technology

• Reinvented mathematics: Explore addition, multiplication, division and fractions using nutritious recipes to double, triple, divide and more. You can even take a survey of your students’ favourite foods using pictures of foods, then create a bar graph showing the results.

Social Sciences

• A bit of history from here or elsewhere: Discuss the cultural realities of the era. Discover the agriculture and livestock raising practices of civilizations that came before us or discuss the dietary customs of other countries.
• A little geography: Locate different countries on a map by exploring where certain dishes come from, from all over the world.

Arts Education

• Role play: Pretend to be different food-related professions to create a play.
• Create an ad: Invent a product, design a package and come up with a slogan to introduce a brand-new food product.
• Mime game: Mimic certain cooking techniques using illustrations.

Personal Development

• Active games: Run to collect the right foods for a balanced breakfast or a nutritious lunch using food illustrations, or to talk about body image.
• Educational videos: Use technology to discuss Canada’s Food Guide and its key messages with videos specifically designed for students or to talk about topics such as breakfast, lunches and body image.
• Interactive quizzes: Solidify what students have learned about a nutritious breakfast, balanced lunches and body image through online games.

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Preschool education

Physical and motor development

• Who am I?: Guess foods based on their distinct sensory characteristics using game cards.
• Educational games: Discover a variety of foods thanks to the enchanted world of the Wonder Woods or with our various educational posters.
• A creative project: Develop motor skills while discovering nutritious food choices using the Snack Illustrations.
• An active game: Get children moving in new ways thanks to the pictures of where foods come from.

Language development

• An interactive quiz: Learn new words with an educational video about snacks and validate learning through an interactive online quiz.
• Nursery rhymes: Sing and dance to nursery rhymes to have fun learning more about where foods come from!

Cognitive development

• A symbolic game: Spark children’s imagination by creating a restaurant using models of nutritious foods.

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