Age 7-9: Food, Geography & Belief Systems

Unit 4: Dairy, Sweets & Spices

Dairy: Cheese and yogurt has been made in the Islamic world for hundreds of years. It is made from goats milk, camels milk, sheeps milk, and cows milk.

Baclava

Sweets: Muslims introduced sugar to Europeans. Many Islamic countries create their own candies and deserts, like baklava, which is made of pastry, honey and walnuts.

Activity: Spice chart
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Spice chart

Many spices originated in Islamic countries. Use the chart as a way of recording what you find out about the following spices.

Spice	Country of origin	Available in Canada?	Uses
saffron
cinnamon
pepper
salt
nutmeg
cardamom
cumin
tumeric
mint
cloves
mustard

Activity: Spices
Answer questions about spices

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Spices

What spices do you use the most?

What do you use the spices for?

What would the food be like without the spices?

Spices: Many spices originated in Islamic countries. One example is saffron, the most expensive spice in the world.

Final Activity: Food Groups
Label the correct food groups in the collage.

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Food Groups

Locate and colour the different food groups in this collage.

Meat: red
Spices and nuts: purple

Fruit: light green
Dairy, grains and breads: brown

Vegetables: dark green
Sweets: blue