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Storing Winter Squash

Students explore a variety of vegetables that can be stored through the colder months, including roots, alliums, cole crops, and winter squash and compare and contrast how families store food now with how they stored food long ago.

Grades
K – 2
Estimated Time
45 minutes
Updated
January 24, 2023

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Author

Bonnie Lohman | Midwest Food Connection

Standards

National Content Area Standards

  • Social Studies – History
    • History Standard 1A (Grades K-2): Family life now and in the recent past; family life in various places long ago.
      • Objective 3: For various cultures represented in the classroom, compare and contrast family life now with family life over time and between various cultures and consider such things as communication, technology, homes, transportation, recreation, school and cultural traditions.
    • NCSS 2 (Grades K-2): Time, Continuity, and Change
      • Objective 2: Concepts such as: past, present, future, similarity, difference, and change.
      • Objective 3: That we can learn our personal past and the past of communities, nations, and the world by means of stories, biographies, interviews, and original sources, such as documents, letters, photographs, and artifacts.