Lesson 5#
Food Preparation and Storage
SUBJECT: Health and Science
TOPIC: Traditional Food Preparation and storage
TIME FRAME: 1 class
COMMON ESSENTIAL LEARNINGS: Communication, Independent Learning,
Personal and Social Values.
MATERIALS: Question sheets
1. OBJECTIVES:
Saskatchewan Science
Objectives
Saskatchewan
Health Objectives
Cognitive: Students will...
- obtain information regarding traditional preparation and storage of food
from the internet.
Affective/Spiritual: Students will...
- demonstrate the ability to understand various perspectives of plant uses of
First Nations people.
2. RESOURCES:
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/hazeltons/prepf.htm
This website contains information about traditional food
preparation and storage.
3. PURPOSE/TEACHER BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
The purpose of this lesson is to inform students' of traditional food
preparation and storage of plants.
Some of the preparation and storage methods are:
Berry drying and rolling, boiling, earth-oven baking, earthen cellars, wooden food
caches and preserving using Oolichan grease.
4. ACTIVITIES/IDEAS:
Researching the Internet
Brainstorm with students' some ways that plants can be prepared and
stored. Discuss how they think the Gitxsan would have prepared and stored food long
ago: Where would they store their food? How would they store their food? How
did they prepare their food?
After brainstorming discuss the way we (people in today's society) prepare and store
food. Compare and contrast. Make a chart with two columns. In the first column
have TRADITIONAL and in the second column have CONTEMPORARY. As the discussion begins fill
in the chart as you go along.
Have the students' research the website on Traditional Food
Preparation and Storage. Students can complete the question sheet.
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/hazeltons/prepf.htm
Question sheet on Traditional Food Preparation and
Storage - check here to view the question sheet you may want to use.
5. EVALUATION:
