Mrs. Thorp’s Third Grade Blog

When I taught third grade, our focus was on learning about the regions of the United States. Learning about what crops were grown in that region was always a key idea for them.

Here are some of the food ideas and the region of the United States with which it is related:

Northeast Region: Wild Blueberry muffins from Maine, Hershey Chocolate from Hershey,PA

Southeast Region: Key lime pie from Florida, peanuts from Georgia, gumbo from New Orleans

Midwest Region: Pemmican (Plains Indians), cheese from Wisconsin, corn products from Iowa

Southwest Region: Any kind of Mexican food from tacos to burritos

West Region: California fruit (oranges, grapes, raisins) pineapples from Hawaii

If you are a teacher, you might want to ask parents to volunteer to bring some of these foods into the classroom and then help serve it.

There are more food ideas. If you have any ideas, feel free to make a comment.

I found that food and kids and learning was a combination that worked well in many subject areas. My third graders seemed were always hungry and if I brought some food to school that related to what we were studying, the lesson not only went well but they remembered the lesson much better.

In the next few posts I will give some examples of times I used food to teach in a variety of subjects.