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Curriculum
Connections
SUBJECT
KITCHEN CONNECTIONS
HEALTH AND
PHYSICAL
EDUCATION
Reading food labels; investigating and sorting food groups following Canada’s Food Guide; analyzing
nutritional information found on common food items; practicing safety in the kitchen; menu planning;
making healthy food choices
MATHEMATICS
Budgeting; counting; conducting surveys and opinion polls; graphing (student attendance polls or
student opinions); working with fractions in recipes; measurement and problem solving in a real world
context (e.g. if 50 students eat an apple and there are 8 apples in every bag, how many bags of apples
do you need? If each bag of apples costs $ how much money will we need to budget, factoring in taxes
of 13%?)
LANGUAGE
ARTS
Writing newsletter articles; persuasive writing (why it's important to eat breakfast with support from
the school’s breakfast program); procedural writing (how to complete a certain task or recipe); asking
critical questions; reading food labels, disclaimers and instructions from cook books, etc.; examine
media and marketing on food packaging and discuss how that affects our food choices.
ART
Making posters to advertise the breakfast program or need for volunteers; decorating the breakfast
room and bulletin boards; creating food art.
GEOGRAPHY/
SOCIAL
STUDIES
Researching and creating foods inspired by different cultures around the world; learning about global
food systems; investigating our Canadian food heritage and traditional food sources; mapping where the
food for the breakfast program came from on its journey from farm to table.
SCIENCE
Studying food systems and how certain foods affect our body and health; starting a school garden;
investigating plants; examining food chains; conducting an experiment to test the validity of the
"5-second rule"; observing and classifying chemical changes in food
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