The Breads We Eat

crayola supplies

Gel Markers
Model Magic®
Glue Sticks
Pointed Tip Scissors
Construction Paper

household supplies

craft sticks
hook and loop fastener tape
bulletin board

Why?

See the world in a new way--with the breads people eat. Explore cultural attributes and world populations with a pictograph bulletin board.

Steps

1. Explore the world! Find out which countries have the most people, beginning with China, India, the United States, Indonesia, and Brazil. Or survey your school’s students and their international heritages. Learn about breads people traditionally bake and eat.
2. Prepare your bulletin board. What kind of graph could you make to show each country’s population? One way is to create a pictograph. Cut colorful paper with Crayola® Scissors to cover a bulletin board. On construction paper, use Crayola Gel Markers to create a colorful border and write each country's name. Attach country labels with a Crayola Glue Stick.
3. Model the breads. Model small breads as symbols to represent the population of each country. Decide how many people each piece of bread will represent on your pictograph. Use Model Magic to form miniature loaves, rolls, tortillas, or other breads. To create different colors of dough, knead washable marker colors into Model Magic to blend. Roll modeling compound between palms, flatten with fingers, cut, and press with a craft stick to create different textures. Air-dry pieces for 24 hours.
4. Assemble the chart. Stick pieces of hook and loop fastener tape on the back of each bread. Press matching sticky pieces in strips to the right of each country's label on your bulletin board. Stick on the breads. Make a key for your bulletin board, showing how many people each bread represents.

adaptations

Investigate other statistics regarding the 10 most populous countries, such as national wealth, number of airports; average life expectancy; population density; and coal, gas, or oil consumption. Use other symbols to show this information. Discuss your ideas for how to plan for the future.

Think globally. Act locally. What have you learned about how population and resources are distributed around the world? Research world cultures to answer questions you may have about how other people live and work using various resources. What do you see? How can students make a difference? Make a plan to use your power as a consumer or to contribute to your environment.

Hold a "Taste of the World’s Breads" event. Find out what ingredients are used, how breads are made, and what finished products look and taste like. Families bring recipes and samples of breads from countries of their heritage. Or invite families to bake breads in the classroom.

benefits

Students research the characteristics and distribution of human populations on Earth.

Students identify the types of bread eaten by people in the countries they are studying or cultures represented in their classroom or school.

Students design a pictograph to represent human populations and other characteristics of the world's nations.

grades

Grades 4 to 6
Grades 7 to 12

subjects

Language Arts
Math
Social Studies
Visual Arts

curriculum standards links

US: Research U.S. Standards
UK: Research UK Standards
Canada: Research Canada Standards

safety guidelines

Crayola Modeling Materials including Crayola Model Magic®, and Model Magic Fusion™, Crayola Air-Dry Clay, and Crayola Dough—

Keep away from open flames. Do not use to make candleholders, hot plates, trivets, or other similar objects that will be used or placed near fire and other heat sources.
Do not put in an oven, microwave, or kiln.
Do not make into vessels/containers that will hold unpackaged food.
The use of modeling material to make items that look like food is discouraged for children younger than age 5 to avoid their confusion with real food.
Unless sealed with a water-resistant glaze, do not make projects exposed to or immersed in water, such as boats or outdoor bird feeders. They would disintegrate when exposed to moisture.
Crayola Dough—contains gluten (wheat flour) as an ingredient.
Crayola Air-Dry Clay, Crayola Model Magic and Model Magic Fusion are gluten-free. However, they are produced on the same machinery as Crayola Dough which does contain gluten. Although the machines are cleaned prior to the start of each production run, there is a slight possibility that trace amounts of gluten from Crayola Dough may be present in the other modeling compound products. For information regarding specific ingredients or allergic concerns, please call our Consumer Affairs department at 1-800-272-9652 weekdays between 9 AM and 4 PM Eastern Standard Time.

Scissors—ATTENTION: The cutting edges of scissors are sharp and care should be taken whenever cutting or handling. Blunt-tip scissors should be used only by children 4 years and older. Pointed-tip scissors should be used only by children 6 years and older.

Wood—By its nature, wood is rough and may contain splinters or sharp points