Cooking from the Past: FREE Homeschool History Lesson Plan Grades 5-9

Here is the lesson plan for the "Food from the Past" activity in the previous blog post.

This lesson will help students get a historical understanding of home economics and the resources available back then for families to make meals.

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Homeschool History Lesson Plan ~ Making Food From the Past

As your students learn about history and home economics, a great way to combine the two is to develop a lesson plan involving cooking meals that people used to prepare for their families, school lunch meals, and for restaurant menus.

Students will learn a bit about the economics of that time and what resources were available at that time. For example, in the 1920s, during the Depression, many people had to come up with meals without using the essentials such as bread, milk or even eggs. Some of these meals that were made out of necessity have become unique meals that we still enjoy today.

Start the lesson by choosing a time period and researching menus from that era. Foodtimeline.org is a great website to start with. Prepare all of the ingredients, aid your students in cooking their meals, and get your studentts to serve it at dinner time.

After clean-up or for the next day's assignment create a worksheet identifying what historical inferences the students learned during their activity. You can also tie the time period that your students chose, with a historical event of that time and ask your students questions on why they think the food may be different from the way it is cooked and prepared today (e.g. the advancement of technology, the economy, cultural influences) to help your students better understand the objectives of the history activity.

Keep the graded worksheet in your portfolio for record keeping. For a free worksheet for this activity click here.

FREE Language Arts Homeschooling Lesson Plan : Week One: Autumn

This week's lesson plan is part of a month long series about autumn. This month long lesson plan is suited for the month of September, however any autumn month will do. Throughout this series, your child will be asked to recite poems, identify fall plants, read short stories and participate in interactive games. 

This lesson talks about goldenrod. However, if they do not grown in your area, feel free to substitute it for another plan. 

Your child will need the necessary reading comprehension skills to read poems and short stories. The lesson is suited for children, preferably, around the ages 7-12. You will be asked to identify and define unknown words in your lesson that your child does not know yet.

Also included is a resource page with the poems, short stories and images needed to complete the lesson.

Download this week's full lesson here. (PDF)