Carolina Gold Rice - Colonial America's first export
| Is it (Carolina) Gold? Use modern genetic techniques to determine if an archaeological sample is Carolina Gold Rice. Then use the same tools to search the world for the source of Carolina Gold rice. |
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| Rice Culture in South Carolina Carolina Gold Rice was the first export crop from Colonial America in the late 1700s. The rice-growing and culinary knowledge of African enslaved peoples forced to migrate to the American Colonies were essential to its success. |
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Origins of Food
| Food and Culture: Atlantic Migration of African Food Examine the African influences on food in the Southern United States. To assess the culture of food and its preparation, students focus on slave diet and work with the article African Crops and Slave Cuisine. |
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| Intro Activity—What do you eat? The origin of every food can ultimately be traced back to plants. This short introductory activity helps students move from foods that they eat to the plants that created them. |
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| Rice genetic diversity-genotype and phenotype Explore differences between genotype and phenotype, using rice as a model. See and taste genetic diversity while investigating nine different types of rice. |
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| What does rice need to grow? Design an experiment to explore what plants—rice plants —need to grow. Define and control variables like light, water and soil. |
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| Where does rice come from? What exactly are you eating when you eat a bowl of rice? Investigate the anatomy of a rice plant. Learn about the differences between brown and white rice. |
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West Africa
| Food and Culture: Atlantic Migration of African Food Examine the African influences on food in the Southern United States. To assess the culture of food and its preparation, students focus on slave diet and work with the article African Crops and Slave Cuisine. |
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| Video Pen Pals Groups of students in Legone, Ghana and in Harlem, NY have become “video” pen pals. Through digital videos, students have been asking and answering questions about their lives, their culture, their food, and their families. |
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| West African Environments Learn about four West African environments: mangroves, grasslands, river floodplains and tidal floodplains. Shape the environment—as West African people have—for growing rice. Success of students' earth-shaping techniques will be tested by their success in growing rice. |
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| West African Ethnic Groups Explore the culture and daily life of West African people using a variety of source materials, including a web quest. Create a museum exhibit featuring “artifacts,” such as jewelry, baskets or pottery, weapons, clothing, or replicas of the houses, which depict daily life in West African cultures. |
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