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2. Make "nutrition labels" like those on packaged foods—but design yours for imaginary foods or for foods in the book. You can even bring empty boxes from home and glue funny labels on them with brand names—for Bob’s Spicy Spiders or Acme Fish Guts. After making up several funny foods and their nutrition labels, you could try to create a "balanced meal" of these goofy foods.
3. Page 12 of It's Disgusting describes the kind of Japanese poem called a haiku. Choose a food in the book and write a haiku about it. (Especially check out pages 7, 14, 15, and 17.)
4. Everybody in class writes down his or her least favorite food. The teacher tallies up the results and writes them on the board. Then each student makes a silly graph like the one on the top of page 7 of It's Disgusting—showing the results of the class poll.
5. A prehistoric feast! Students use the woolly mammoth pages from It's Disgusting (pages 16 and 17) to imagine prehistoric life. The teacher hands out a list of possible food sources from 10,000 years ago. Then each student writes a story about an imaginary feast from long ago. Maybe the class can make popcorn afterwards, pretending that it's the 2,000-year-old popcorn found in New Mexico. Discuss why it pops.
6. Thanksgiving is also known as Turkey Day, and on Halloween people eat candy. What if there was a special holiday devoted to your most hated food? Write about the predicaments you might get into if everybody had to eat lots of _______ on National ______ Day.
7. For students old enough to work on percentages: Turn the information in the graph on page 7 into percentages. For younger students: Use blocks of cheese or caramels to make 3-D graphs.
8. Try a guessing game where you build a pyramid out of cheese blocks or caramels (see page 29 of It's Disgusting). Students try to guess the number of blocks, then learn strategies of making good estimates.
9. My Visit to a Scary House: Imagine that a new kid who lives in a
spiderwebby house invites you over for dinner. You show up and find out
that dinner includes the treats on page 17 of It's Disgusting! How would
you react? Write about your experiences there!
More Exercises:
500-Year-Old Food Makes Me Sick!
