5.6:
Use geographic representations to locate and describe places and geographic characteristics.

Cultures, Food, and Communities Around the World: Students explore different cultures around the world, compare worldwide communities with local communities, and explain the interrelationship between the environment and community development.

Growing Our State History: Students investigate what makes a community livable and explore the influence of agriculture on the history of their state.

Hunger and Malnutrition: Students investigate the importance of eating a variety of foods in order to get all the nutrients needed to be healthy, explore diets around the world using Peter Menzel’s Hungry Planet Family Food Portraits, and discuss the scope of the problems of hunger and malnutrition using the World Food Programme HungerMap Live.

In a Nutshell: Students explore pecan production from farm to fork, simulate the process of grafting, and create a nutritious snack.

Sorghum at School: The Sorghum Story: Students will investigate sorghum, including the stages of plant growth, production in the United States, health benefits, geography, and positive environmental impacts.

Tasty Testing: Students discover the geographic regions where basil, oregano, and cilantro have cultural significance, understand the role of evaporation in herb dying, and recognize the different properties of dried and fresh herbs.

5.14.e:
Explain the impact of the Columbian Exchange on people, plants, animals, technology, culture, ideas, and diseases among Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and examine the major effects on each continent.

The Columbian Exchange of Old and New World Foods: Students explore New World and Old World food origins to discover how the Columbian Exchange altered people’s lives worldwide.