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Pizza Web Lessons NOW Available!!

Lesson Plan #1 - Your Pizza Came From The Farm
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A History of Pizza
      
© Pizza Crust Ingredients

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Tomato sauce is

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Cheese is made from cows' milk
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Pepperoni and Sausage come from pigs
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Mushrooms
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Peppers and Onions 
 

Pizza Lesson Objectives: Projects and activities will increase the students understanding of Agriculture.

 Objectives:

  • Students will learn that all ingredients needed to make a pizza are produced by NYS Farmers.
  • Students will use words to describe their favorite pizza, older students can help younger students with activities and games
  • Math: Older students can create a graph of what younger students favorite pizza topping was. Younger students can discuss the different shapes on a pizza
  • Students will review the food pyramid to discuss how Pizza fits in nutritionally
  • LIfe skills: Performing as a team member, assisting team members to mimic working on a farm where everyone works together to get the crops planted and harvested.

Supporting Projects:

  1. Pizza as big as the sun by J. Prelutsky

  2. Nutrition: Use the food pyramid to discuss with children items that fit into the pyramid

  3. The Science of Pizza

  4. Pizza Game

 To Download a complete set of web lessons, click here for part 1 and here for part 2. If you have any questions or comments about these lessons, please email us at: sprokop@nyfb.org or call us at the office 1-800-342-4143.

Childress Prints Available Now!

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New York Farm Bureau
Foundation for
Agricultural Education, Inc.
159 Wolf Road, P.O. Box 5330
Albany, NY 12205-5330
Phone: 518-436-8495