There could be so much more to the children´s menu than chicken strips! To encourage younger diners to try new foods, Spanish I students will sample different dishes available at the local Peruvian restaurant, Machu Picchu, and make a menu of the best picks for kids. They will then create interactive placemat menus for young diners--in Spanish and English--to learn through play while they wait for their food! Machu Picchu restaurant staff will select the best menu among all of the classes for publishing and distribution at their restaurants.
Permission Forms
Platos Peruanos discussion
Ingredients notes
Actively Learn - Lomo Saltado Recipe
Activity Collage Notes
Implementation information not specified.
Announce upcoming sample buffet, amount needed to collect from each student ($3-$5) to offset food costs and/or bus expenses. Set deadlines for returning form, money, allergy list. Establish purpose of the project.
Students need money (can be covered if few enough), parents not home, forgetting/losing forms
Make observations about regional influences on dishes, beverages, ingredients from infograph.
Discuss in groups which dishes members do and don't want to try.
Compare popular dishes to Machu Picchu menu
Copy Pinterest image into Google Slides presentation including question and answer stems, i.e. "Do you want to try...?" "It looks tasty!" "It looks gross!" "I (don't) like..."
Side conversations, frustration over pronunciation
Have students guess ingredients in cebiche, lomo saltado, ají de gallina, and causa and write correct ingredients in color coded flaps with dish names.
Lists here.
Discuss whether or not students still want to try the dishes
Discuss "makis"--different sushi flavors they could try
Interpret key preparation information and vocabulary, compare cognates and loan words as well as measurements
Compare lomo saltado to local dishes and their preparation
Students will need devices. Phones can work in a pinch, but laptops/chromebooks are preferable
Disengagement, frustration with unfamiliar vocabulary, random guessing, copying each other without actually engaging with the tet
Each student gets a small portion of several different dishes ordered from the restaurant and makes a note of their response to each on a form in Spanish, including how much they like it, how much a typical child 10 or under would like it, ingredients they noticed, and questions they might need to ask.
Have students discuss what they do and don't like with classmates, what they do and don't want to include on the menu, what they want to know.
Could use Google Forms of easy collection.
Getting to the restaurant, getting food to the class, running out before 4th period, collecting money for the food.
Small groups collaborate on a T-chart with the columns "Usar" and "No usar" to track at least five items they want to include in their menu and at least 5 items they might want to avoid.
Discuss what to include and what not to include
Students will need headphones and at least one device per pair
Lack of headphones/devices, wifi
Give each group several copies of different examples of children's activity placemats from local restaurants. Provide basic descriptions of each type of activity in Spanish and have them create a collage of examples in their notebooks.
Groups discuss which activities they like and don't like, want to include/don't want to include.
Have students follow along with Google Slides/Powerpoint/Keynote
Insufficient vocabulary to express reasoning
Time/enough copies/examples for placemats
Novice picture matching questions: "Cebiche peruano, la receta original"
Intermediate title matching questions: "7 juegos populares para jugar con lápiz y papel"
Advanced multiple choice questions: "Historia de la comida peruana"
Laptop or Chromebook needed for each student, must demonstrate how to zoom in and zoom out on Google Slides and move each type of response
Novice - Game descriptions
Intermediate - Cultural Flipgrid responses/waiter interviews
Advanced - YouTube video - Machu Picchu, breve documental
Laptop or Chromebook AND headphones needed for each student, must demonstrate how to zoom in and zoom out on Google Slides and move each type of response
Videos must be embedded AND shared with all students (ie via Google Classroom assignment attachment). It's a good idea to download videos and upload to Google Drive to ensure they will not be blocked. Label them to match the slides.
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