Teacher Instructions
Super-Sized Food Challenge
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This game takes a bit of preparation, but it is great fun. It involves competition between groups, cooperation within groups, using research skills, and practice following directions carefully. It is a great game to use right before a vacation, for 1-3 class periods. It is noisy, but it is a productive kind of noise.
Organization
Divide the class into groups of four. Students in each group should sit together, as far as possible from other groups.
Have each group create an official answer sheet. This can be a piece of notebook paper numbered from one to 75, with group members’ names at the top. Some answers will require more than one line, so each group should have extra paper to staple to the official answer sheet when necessary.
Read aloud the first paragraph from “Super-Sized Instructions” (page 42). Then tell students that they are on their own. When they ask questions, insist that they read the instructions carefully and begin.
Materials
•Copies of the “Super-Sized Food Challenge” for each group.
•Ordinary classroom reference materials, such as grammar books, literature books, dictionaries. Computers for each group are helpful, if available. It’s also a good idea to bring in some extra materials, such as a set of encyclopedias, an almanac, and an atlas. Don’t worry if all answers aren’t available in your classroom. Students are to answer as many of the items as possible, not all of them. The challenge also relies on what they already know, as well as their ingenuity.
•Tokens. Dried beans work great, but you can also use play money or poker chips. You will need a fairly large quantity of whatever you use.
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Suggestions
•Emphasize that the “Super-Sized Food Challenge” is an exercise in following instructions. Students will likely be confused at first, but keep referring them to the instructions. They will quickly catch on and realize that they must figure out what to do.
•Allow students to have a negative balance of tokens by recording their balance on a tally you will keep. That’s because students will almost certainly guess at answers in the beginning. When they go in the hole, they will learn to be more careful. (Note that incorrect answers lose double the designated number of tokens. Also, answers with misspelled words are considered incorrect.)
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Student Instructions |
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Super-Sized Instructions
This is an exercise in following directions, cooperating, and using your ingenuity. The purpose is to earn tokens by completing as many items as possible on the “Super-Sized Food Challenge” list you have received. The group with the most tokens at the end of the game will be the winner.
Start by reading the instructions below.
•Be sure your group members’ names are at the top of your official answer sheet.
•Be sure your official answer sheet is numbered from 1 to 75.
•Choose a designated “runner” for your group. Put a star or an asterisk beside the name of your runner on the official answer sheet.
•Only the designated runner can bring your official answer sheet to the teacher to be checked. All written answers must be on your official answer sheet. The runner may bring up answers one at a time or a few at a time.
•To complete the items on the “Super-Sized Food Challenge” list, you may use any resources in this room to help you—except for another group’s answer sheet.
•You may complete the items in any order.
•Correctly completed items will be awarded the number of tokens specified in parentheses after each item. Incorrect answers will cause your group to lose double the specified number of tokens for that item.
•Each answer that is written must be legible and spelled correctly. Otherwise it will be considered incorrect. Be careful!!!
“If toast always lands butter-side
down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if
you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?”
—Steven Wright
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Student Instructions |
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Super-Sized Food Challenge
1.How many blackbirds are baked in a pie in the classic nursery rhyme, “Sing a Song of Sixpence”? (1)
2.What book contains the following statement: “The rule is jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today”? (3)
3.On the website, www.nutria.com, there are recipes for “Heart Healthy Crock-Pot Nutria,” “Nutria Chili,” and “Nutria Ragondin Sausage Jambalaya,” to name a few. What is nutria? (2)
4.True or false: If you go swimming less than one hour after eating, you will get cramps and drown. (1)
5.Robert Burns wrote a poem called “Address to a Haggis.” What is a haggis? (2)
6.What is “roasting on an open fire” in the “The Christmas Song”? (1)
7.Which country uses the following spices: kesar, jaiphal, imli, lahsun? (2)
8.Is fugu dangerous? Why or why not? (3)
9.Wasabi is a member of the __________ family. (2)
10.Write down five adjectives that could be used to describe fajitas. (2)
11.What novel contains the following line: “Heaped up on the floor, to form a kind of throne, were turkeys, geese, game, poultry, brawn, great joints of meat, sucking-pigs, long wreaths of sausages, mince-pies, plum-puddings, barrels of oysters, red-hot chestnuts, cherry-cheeked apples, juicy oranges, luscious pears, immense twelfth-cakes, and seething bowls of punch, that made the chamber dim with their delicious steam”? (5)
12.How many tablespoons are in a cup? (3)
13.Write down 20 words that can be made with the letters in chocolate. (5)
14.What foods are mentioned in the song, “Take Me Out to the Ball Game”? (2)
15.Is delicious a noun, verb, adjective, or adverb in this sentence: Harold made a delicious soup? (3)
16.What cooking utensil was used as both a shield and a helmet
17.Write down 15 words that rhyme with bread. (4)
18.Use their, they’re, and there correctly in one sentence about
19.What was food writer Julia Child’s astrological sign? (2)
20.Who invented potato chips? (2)
21.In what state is the Gilroy Garlic Festival held? (2)
22.Complete the following commercial jingle: “My ________ has name. It’s _______________.” (1)
23.What does USDA stand for? (2)
What did the left eye say to the right eye?
Just between you and me, something smells!
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24.List five synonyms for the word food. (2)
25.Who is Beef Wellington named after? (2)
26.True or false: The Caesar salad was named after Julius Caesar. (2)
27.Write down 15 words that rhyme with flax. (4)
28.What is entomophagy? (3)
29.Write down the names of 10 edible flowers. (2)
30.Write down 10 bands named after food. (8)
31.What is jicama? (1)
32.Who wrote the memoir Tender at the Bone? What is its subtitle? (3)
33.Tortilla Soup is the name of a ______________________. (1)
34.What state is known as “America’s Dairyland”? (1)
35.What famous chef wrote The Art of French Cooking? (1)
36.Write a dependent clause that mentions a food. (3)
37.Name a cartoon named after a legume. ____________________ (2)
38.Make up a 4-line rhyming song about any food, write it down, and come to the front of the room and sing it. The first team to do so will receive 25 tokens. Later groups will receive only 10.
39.What country is famous for its chocolate? (2)
40.What fruit is also a color? (1)
41.Name ten herbs. (3)
42.Complete this line from a well-known holiday song: Oh, bring us some figgy
_____________________. (2)
43.What dessert is named after a famous horse race? (3)
44.Name ten berries. (2)
45.With Six You Get _______________________. (Hint: title of something) (3)
46.Name 10 clichés or common expressions that mention a food. (10)
47.Name ten food pairs—foods that are commonly mentioned together, such as ham and eggs. (4)
48.What is quince? (1)
49.What did Willy Wonka make in his factory? (1)
50.What is the origin of the expression, “Where’s the beef?” (2)
51.Name two famous guys who make ice cream. (1)
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52.What is a vegan? (1)
53.The one who earns money to feed the family is the __________________ winner. (1)
54.Who was Popeye’s girlfriend? (1)
55.Name five songs about food, or with a food in the title. (5)
56.What movie title mentions the jewelry store Tiffany’s? (1)
57.Kids like to play a game called “Animal, ________________, Mineral.” (1)
58.Name five foods beginning with the letter R. (2)
59.Write a sentence about any food, using at least 8 examples of alliteration in the sentence. (3)
60.What zodiac sign means “fish”? (1)
61.Name 10 foods that begin with the letter C. (4)
62.What is a roux? (1)
63.Which one of the following would a cook most likely put into a soup? saffron or souffle (1)
64.What is feta made of? (1)
65.What is quinoa? (1)
66.Little Miss Muffet ate curds and whey. What are curds and whey? (1)
67.We call them cookies. What do the British call them? (1)
68.Another name for appetizers has a very difficult spelling. This word is pronounced or dervs. How is it spelled? (2)
69.Who won the 1985 Orange Bowl? (2)
70.Only the first team to do this will win 8 tokens: Come to the front of the room and say, together, “For variety, we are going to sing a song that is not about food.” Then sing “Itsy Bitsy Spider” and do the hand motions as you sing. (8)
71.Alphabetize these foods correctly: spinach, salsa, Snickers, Snapple, sauce, Spam, soy sauce, salmon, soup.
72.Complete this poem:
I never saw a purple cow... (3) if you do one stanza, or (5) if you do two
73.Dr. Seuss wrote Green Eggs and Ham. Name 5 more books he wrote. (3)
74.Personify a potato in one sentence. (5)
75.Name 20 words that end in the letter T. At least ten of them must be foods. (4)
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