Objective
Students will construct their own inquiries concerning corn.
Students will use informational texts to gather information regarding their inquiries.
Students will document their information through note taking on their butcher paper.
Students will share with the class their current findings concerning their inquiries.
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Corn (and Corn Syrup) Inquiry – SL.5.1 RI.5.7
F.I.T. Family books to read at home with parents and younger siblings
- Tops & Bottoms by Janet Stevens
- The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle
- How a Seed Grows by Helene Jordan
- Eating the Alphabet: Fruits and Vegetables from A to Z by Lois Ehlert
- Living Sunlight: How Plants Bring the Earth to Life by Molly Bang and Penny Chisholm
- Pick, Pull, Snap! Where Once a Flower Bloomed by Lola Schaeffer
- Up We Grow! A Year in the Life of a Small, Local Farm by Deborah Hodge
- Seed Soil Sun: Earth’s Recipe for Food by Cris Peterson
- Sophie’s Squash by Pat Zietlow Miller
- Round is a Tortilla: A Book of Shapes by Roseanne Greenfield Thong
- Dragons Love Tacos by Adam Rubin
WEBSITE LINKS
- Sustainable Food Laboratory
- Harvest Calendar for Rhode Island
- The Edible Schoolyard Project
- Wholesome Wave
- American Academy of Pediatrics and Fruit Juice
- Printable Maps from National Geographic
- IRA/NCTE Read Write Think
- CDC 2014 National Diabetes Statistics Report
- CDC Adult Obesity Facts and CDC Obesity Maps
- American College of Physicians Patient Brochures and Guidebooks
VIDEOS
BOOKS
Aliki. (1976). Corn is Maize: The Gift of the Indians. New York: HarperCollinsPublishers.
Butterworth, C. (2011). Illustrated by L. Gaggiottti. How Did that Get in My Lunchbox? The Story of Food. Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press.
Eamer, C. (2012). Illustrated by S. Boothroyd. The World in Your Lunchbox: The Wacky History and Weird Science of Everyday Foods. Toronto, Ontario: Annick Press.
Hodge, D. (2010). Photos by B. Harris. Up We Grow! A Year in the Life of a Small, Local Farm. Tonawanda, NY: Kids Can Press Ltd.
Integrated Marketing Services. (2012). Fresh Produce Guide: 300(+) Fruits, Vegetables and Herbs. Apopka, FL: Integrated Marketing Services.
Micucci, C. (2009). The Life and Times of the Corn. New York: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children.
Peterson, C. (2010). Photos by D. Lundquist. Seed Soil Sun: Earth’s Recipe for Food. Honesdale, PA: Boyds Mills Press, Inc.
Rhodes, J.P. (2013). Sugar. New York: Little, Brown and Company.
Stevens, J. (1995). Tops & Bottoms. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
Reference
Kessler, D. (2013). Your Food is Fooling You: How Your Brain is Hijacked by Sugar, Fat, and Salt. New York: Roaring Brook Press.
Kingsolver, B. (2007). Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life. New York: Harper Perennial.
Lehr, S. (1991). The Child’s Sense of Developing Theme: Responses to Literature. New York: Teachers College Press.
Louv, R. (2008). Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder. Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill.
Obama, M. (2012). American Grown: The Story of the White House Kitchen Garden and Gardens Across America. New York: Crown.
Pappas, C., Kiefer, B., and Levstik, L. (1999). An Integrated Language Perspective in the Elementary School: An Action Approach, Third Edition. New York: Addison Wesley Longman, Inc.
Pollan, M. (2009). The Omnivore’s Dilemma: The Secrets Behind What You Eat, Young Readers Edition. New York: Dial Books.