History of Food Activity

Choose one activity from the two options below (or try both!) and have fun.

Option 1: Time Travel Through Food

Time Travel Through Food Worksheet:

Green Beetz Direct Lesson 3 Time Travel Activity.pdf

Directions to time traveling through food:

  1. Gather Materials:

      • The provided worksheet or a blank piece of paper

      • Pen/pencil

      • Crayons/markers/colored pencils, or materials for a collage

  2. Pick a time period from the categories below:

      • Pre-historic -- before fire (~800,000 years ago)

      • Hunter & Gatherer -- with fire (~789,000 years ago)

      • Agricultural Revolution (~10,000 years ago)

      • Industrial Farming/Factory Farming begins (~70 years ago)

      • The Age of Fast Food (today)

      • Modern Farming (today)

  3. Imagine you were living during that period of time. What you would eat?

      • Draw or make a collage of a meal you might eat during the time period you picked.

Option 2: History of Food Thought Question

Directions for the History of Food thought question:

  1. Gather Materials:

      • Pen/pencil

      • Paper

  2. Answer the following question in 4 sentences or more:

      • Would you rather live and eat the way we do today or how we did in a past time? Why?