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Exploring the Possibilities!

The purpose of the blog is to provide additional support to educators as well as parents and community members who wish to create schools which will provide children with the experiences needed to flourish!

​Anne Shaw, Director, 21st Century Schools

Food and Culture Global Classrooms Project

12/15/2014

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Can you imagine how excited and motivated your students will be as they collaborate with students in classrooms in other countries?  We will provide you with many ideas for class, whether you're PK, high school or university.  This entry point - food - has been the common factor in socialization and community building for thousands of years.  But we don't have to stay focused just on food.  This project will expand into many directions, and you and your students will choose which possibilities to explore.

While younger students will focus on getting to know and love nature, gardening, cooking, nutrition and fitness, as well as cultural studies, the development of multiple literacies (such as financial literacy, media literacy, ecoliteracy and many more) older students will also be able to explore McDonaldization, Media Literacy, evolution of the supermarket (from small shops to Whole Foods), health issues, hunger, cultural similarities and differences, traditions, economics, agriculture, food production, law, environmental studies, cookbooks, literature, celebrations of life and death and everything in between  - all these topics and many more are connected to Food and Culture.

This project is designed to integrate, support and develop the items in our 3 Compasses -  Critical Attributes of 21st Century Education;  Multiple Literacies for the 21st Century;  7 Survival Skills for the 21st Century.

Common Core?  You bet, and much more!

You choose your particular topics and student learning goals according to what you teach.  But EVERY CLASS will contribute to:

1.  The Global Kids Cookbook - each class submits at least one recipe, accompanied by images and essays.

2.  International Student-Produced Video Database - each class will submit at least one student-produced video.

3.  Global Children's Literature Database - each teach will submit at least 3 titles of children's literature authored by writers in their country.

Everyone eats.  People around the world differ in many ways, but dinner unites us all.  


Explore here then register your class to participate!

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