The Mini Page — 2004 Activities
Summer Grocery Stories
Issue 28
July 3-9This week´s standards:Students understand nutrition and wellness practices that enhance individual and family well-being. (Family and Consumer Science) Activities:1. Draw a picnic table with your favorite summer foods. Write a story about a summer party with your friends and family members. 2. Use the food ads from the newspaper to create a summer picnic menu that is different from the traditional foods shown in today´s Mini Page. Be sure to include a meat, vegetable, fruit, bread and dessert. 3. Make a list of the summer foods in today´s Mini Page. Now interview family members and friends to see which foods they like. Ask each person to select his or her two favorite foods. Make a chart showing the number of votes each food received. Which are your two favorite foods? Why? 4. Which summer foods originally came from these world areas: (a) the Americas, (b) Africa, (c) Europe, (d) the British Isles, and (d) Asia? 5. Use resource books and the Internet to learn more about a summer food you like, but one that is not shown in today´s Mini Page. Use these questions to guide your research: Where did this summer food come from originally? When did it become popular? How
popular is it in different countries? Dr. Sherrye D. Garrett
Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
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