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Cultures, Food, and Communities Around the World (Grades 3-5)

Students explore different cultures around the world, compare worldwide communities with local communities, and explain the interrelationship between the environment and community development.

Grades
3 – 5
Estimated Time
Two 45-minute activities, plus research time for activity two
Updated
December 9, 2024
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Background

Lesson Activities

Recommended Companion Resources

Credits

Author

Debra Spielmaker, Grace Struiksma, Sara Hunt, and Bekka Israelsen | Utah Agriculture in the Classroom

Standards

National Content Area Standards

  • Social Studies – Geography
    • Geography Standard 1 (Grades 3-4): How to use maps and other geographic representations, geospatial technologies, and spatial thinking to understand and communicate information.
      • Objective 1: Properties and functions of geographic representations—such as maps, globes, graphs, diagrams, aerial and other photographs, remotely sensed images, and geographic visualizations.
    • Geography Standard 6 (Grades 3-4): How culture and experience influence people's perceptions of places and regions.
      • Objective 1: People can have different views of the same places and regions.
    • Geography Standard 6 (Grade 5): How culture and experience influence people's perceptions of places and regions.
      • Objective 1: People's different perceptions of places and regions are influenced by their life experience.