Food For Thought

Description: This lesson provides an illustrated reading passage titled Harvester of the Earth's Treasurers. It is about cooking with Geraldine R. Aguilla who is the head cook at San Simon School on the Tohono O'odham Reservation in the Sonoran Desert of southern Arizona. Students will learn to recognize English and Tohono O1odham words for beans, chili pepper, corn, onions, spinach, squash/pumpkin, and watermelon. alternatively, this lesson can be adapted to teach students words from their own community's language.

Author: Sandra Lewis
Series: Earth's Caretakers
Publisher: Bob Isaacson
Publisher Email: isaacson@busboy.sped.ukans.edu
Zip Code: 66045
Created: 07/19/96
Grades: 6, 7, 8, 9
Tribes: Hopi, Laguna, Navajo
Schools:
Content Areas: Science, Language Arts
Thematic Cycle:
Availability: Four Directions