Everyday Foods from Rainforests
Know that many everyday foods come from rainforests — chocolate is made from cacao beans, bananas grow in tropical forests, coffee berries ripen in forest shade, and Brazil nuts fall from giant trees — connecting our daily lives to faraway forests
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If your child is eating a chocolate bar or a banana, can they tell you that those foods originally come from rainforests?
Know that many everyday foods come from rainforests — chocolate is made from cacao beans, bananas grow in tropical forests, coffee berries ripen in forest shade, and Brazil nuts fall from giant trees — connecting our daily lives to faraway forests
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- Name at least three foods that come from rainforests, such as chocolate (cacao), bananas, and Brazil nuts
- Explain that cacao beans grow on trees in the rainforest and are made into chocolate
- Connect their own food choices to rainforest origins by identifying a product they eat that comes from the forest
“If your child is eating a chocolate bar or a banana, can they tell you that those foods originally come from rainforests?”
Curriculum record
- Type
- Conceptual
- Subject
- Science
- Domain
- Rainforests
- Age range
- Ages 5–7