2.18 Cheeseburger Storybook
This is Lesson 18 (“Cheeseburger Storybook”) from the National FFA Mentoring Program’s Grow Your PALS Program Guide, part of the Agricultural Awareness unit. In this one-on-one mentoring activity, a mentor and mentee “dissect” a bacon cheeseburger to explore the agricultural products in each ingredient, then create a colored-paper “Cheeseburger Storybook” to illustrate where each food comes from and how it is produced.
At a glance
- Learning objectives
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- Investigate the components of a bacon cheeseburger.
- Discover how agricultural products are part of everything we eat.
- Time required
- Instruction time for this lesson: 30 minutes.
- Materials
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- colored pieces of paper to represent the cheeseburger
- a real cheeseburger (if possible) or a picture of a cheeseburger PALS.18.TM.A – one copy
- colored pencils, crayons or markers
- PALS.18.TM.B – PALS.18.TM.I – one copy (if a real burger is not available)
- Unit
- Agricultural Awareness
- Lesson Type
- One-on-one
- Precepts
- F. Continuous Improvement — F5. Acquire new knowledge; J. Mental Growth — J2. Think creatively
- Key Terms
- agricultural products, processed, agriculture
- Resources
- The Imagination Station, West Des Moines, Iowa; Iowa Agricultural Awareness Coalition
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Aligned Standards
National Standards
- NL-ENG.K-12.8Students use a variety of technological and information resources to gather and synthesize information and to create and communicate knowledge.