Fernando M. Reimers et al.

First the students will compare what they ate with what other members of
the class ate. Then they will compare the types of foods they ate with the
types of foods their partners from another country ate. They will also place
the country that their partners are from on their map.

Activity 1.2.6
“Stone Soup”
Students read several different versions of the folktale “Stone Soup.” They
compare each version and think about why they might be different and how
they are the similar. They mark on their map the origin of each version of the

folktale.
We recommend the following versions of the story:

0 Marcia Brown’s 1947 Caldecott Award—winning “Stone Soup”

0 Jon J. Muth’s 2003 “Stone Soup,” which is set in China

0 The versions listed on the University of Pittsburgh’s website: http://
www.pitt.edu/~dash/type1548.html

Activity 1.2.7

Our Food, Our World

Students complete the “Out Food, Our World” series of lessons from Oxfam.
They learn about what foods children in India and Mexico eat and also learn
about what they have in common with children in those countries. They
add information that they learn from Yamini and Luis, two characters in the
lessons, to their maps.
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/education/resources/our_food-our_world/

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