Videos & Documentaries about Sonoran Desert Heritage
Murals Depicting the Sonoran Desert (Art)
Community sites that provide artistic representation of the Sonoran Desert's beauty.
Find books that are related to the food you want to cook.
Make an acrostic poem with the food name.
Creation of maps and timelines about food migration.
Math word problems about the food or recipes combined with class representation.
Math data graphs about the food.
Investigation/observation charts about photos or videos.
Close-reading passages about a specific food.
Whole-group classroom book with family recipes to publish into your classroom library.
Students can make presentations about family recipes or cultural foods.
Invite families to come to your class and present about family recipes or cultural foods connected to their origins.
Make a sequence thinking map for the steps of cooking a recipe.
School Garden: plant, observe, treat, harvest and cook
Connect different learning subjects with a specific food and make a thematic day to cook with your students.
Food within Teaching & Learning
Sonoran Desert Inspired Field-trips
Food lab - https://nutrition.arizona.edu/news/2022/03/university-arizona-community-and-school-garden-program
Mission Garden- https://www.missiongarden.org/
Dolores Huerta Community Garden (Davis Bilingual Magnet School/ Your School Garden
Native Seeds (experts into your classroom)- https://www.nativeseeds.org/
Farmers' Markets Visits:
Bean Tree Farm
BKW Farms
Desert Harvesters- Santa Cruz River Farmers Market
Las Milpitas Community Farm
San Xavier Co-op Farm
Tucson Village Farm- https://tucsonvillagefarm.arizona.edu/field-trips
Saguaro National Park or Saguaro National Monument
Sabino Canyon- https://sabinocanyoncrawler.com/sabino-canyon-tours/
Camp Cooper- https://coopercenter.arizona.edu/programs/person-field-trips
Tummomoc Hill Hike
Arizona Desert Museum- https://www.desertmuseum.org/center/edu/
Virtual Fieldtrips- https://vft.asu.edu/
Tucson Botanical Gardens Visit- https://tucsonbotanical.org/education/
Tucson meet yourself