Oklahoma Ag in the Classroom

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September is All-American Breakfast Month

Ask students what they would consider an All-American Breakfast. Many traditional breakfast foods are grown right here in Oklahoma—wheat and corn for cereal, milk from dairy cows, peaches, strawberries or melon to top it off, eggs from Oklahoma's poultry industry and pork or beef sausage on the side.

Breakfast Facts and Ideas

Make Your Own Cereal: Granola Recipe

Wheat Foods Council: Back to Breakfast Toolkit

Online Breakfast Lessons

• Yam and Eggs - In China congee, or rice porridge, is a breakfast staple. The rice is cooked in lots of water until it is creamy, then garnished with cooked meat or fish, clams, seaweed or tofu. Encourage your students to try something different for breakfast as they learn what people eat for breakfast around the world.

• The Grain Game - Many of your students' favorite cereals are made from grains that grow right here in Oklahoma. In this lesson students learn the origins of these cereals as they play a counting game using cereal pieces.

• Fit With Fiber - Students graph nutritional information from some of their favorite breakfast cereals.

The new USDA Choose MyPlate food guidelines recommend making at least half your grains whole grains. Oklahoma's number one crop, hard red winter wheat, is a major whole grain component in many common breakfast cereals.

Have a cereal breakfast with peaches, this month's featured Oklahoma fruit.

Writing Prompts

• Describe your favorite breakfast and explain why you like it.
• Write a menu for your idea of an All-American breakfast.

Books

Zurakowski, Michele, Midday Meals Around the World, Picture Window, 2004. (Grades 1-5)

Discover what children around the world eat for their midday meals. Menus include meals from North and South America, Durope, Africa, Asia and Australia. Also includes kid-friendly recipes.

More Ag-Related Books for Children and Young Adults

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Oklahoma Ag in the Classroom

Oklahoma Ag in the Classroom is a program of the Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service, the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry and the Oklahoma State Department of Education.