World Foods and Family Traditions

2nd Grade Social StudiesCultural Diversity3 pages

About this worksheet

Food starts this 2nd grade cultural diversity sheet. Students look at cartoon pictures of a taco, a sushi roll, and a slice of pepperoni pizza, then write each food's name and its country from a word bank of Mexico, Japan, and Italy. The second part asks them to draw a tradition or holiday their own family celebrates and write one sentence about it. Across three pages, the sheet connects to C3 Framework indicator D2.Geo.6.K-2. The food answers come straight from the word bank, and the drawing is open.

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Curriculum objectives covered

D2.Geo.6.K-2

โ€œIdentify some cultural and environmental characteristics of specific places.โ€

Yummy Foods from Around the World, where each food is tied to the country it comes from, and the family tradition drawing, which adds students' own cultural practices.

What's inside this worksheet

Yummy Foods from Around the World

Three food pictures sit over blank lines. Students write Tacos (Mexico), Sushi (Japan), or Pizza (Italy) under the right one.

Your Family Traditions

Beside a picture of three kids with confetti and balloons, students draw a special family tradition or holiday and write one sentence about it.

How teachers use it

Lunch talk

Ask students which of the three foods they have eaten. Most will say pizza and tacos, which opens a talk about how foods travel from one country to another.

Family homework

Send the Your Family Traditions box home so a parent can help. Drawings that come back with a family photo attached make a good display for back-to-school night.

Sharing circle

Allow each student 30 seconds to show their tradition drawing. Keep a class list of the holidays named, since it becomes the starting point for later lessons.

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