Everyday Foods from Rainforests

Description

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

Mastery Evidence

• ✓ 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