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• Postcards from Buster - "Buster and Beatrice"
  Buster meets 12-year-old Robert who has been playing Conjunto music on his accordion since he was five with grownups who share this traditional Mexican-American musical form. In between jam sessions, Buster gets a lesson in real Mexican cooking, and learns what makes a perfect taco.
• ZOOM - "Episode #606""
  Shing Ying celebrates her Chinese culture and the harvest moon festival, teaching the audience to make delicious "Moon Cakes." Viewers then meet a young girl named McKayla W., who was born in China and adopted by an American family.

Do in Class

• Between the Lions: Kids in the Kitchen - Invent new recipes with your child and write them on recipe cards.
• Caillou: Cook with Caillou - Try some of Caillou's favorite dishes for yourself including Empanadas, Friendship Salad, or a Fire Truck Cake.
• Clifford: A Lesson in Cooking with a Dash of Respect - Learn to appreciate, respect, and understand social diversity as you learn about foods from different cultures.
• Clifford: Pizza Snack - Build important social and emotional skills by giving your child and a friend the opportunity to cook up and enjoy a delicious pizza snack together.
• Dragon Tales: Tasting Carnival - Try new foods and track children's taste preferences on a chart.
• It's a Big, Big World: What Did You Eat Today? - Examine the USDA Food Pyramid. Draw pictures of food, classify food into different food groups, explore the amount of vitamins and minerals you get from eating certain foods and discuss the importance of eating foods from all of the food groups.
  
• Maya & Miguel: Recipes for Happiness - Make and enjoy authentic cultural foods.
• Postcards from Buster: Recipes - Choose what you want to make from a selection of recipes Buster gathered during his travels.
• Reading Rainbow: Mrs. Katz and Tush - Make a special apple and nut spread that is Jewish in tradition.
• ZOOM: Cafe ZOOM - Explore dozens of recipes your students will be sure to enjoy.

Play Online

• Dragon Tales: Zak and Wheezie's Dragonberry Surprise - Put together ingredients for a recipe online.
• Maya & Miguel: Cooking with Abuela - Play this interactive game to help Abuela find the right ingredients, then print the recipes to taste at home.
• Postcards from Buster: Dream On - Play this online game where you are part of Buster's dream to collect foods for specific recipes.
• Sesame Street: Color Me Hungry - Help Grover and Cookie Monster sort vegetables by color.
• ZOOM: Kitchen Chemisty - Learn about foods in your kitchen with this online activity.

Read

• Moonbeams, Dumplings & Dragon Boats: A Treasury of Chinese Holiday Tales, Activities & Recipes
  By Nina Simonds; Leslie Swartz; Children's Museum, Boston; and Meilo So
  Published October 2002 by Harcourt
  This beautifully illustrated book contains lore, stories, recipes, and activities for a year of Chinese holidays. The book lists print and web resources for adults and young readers and includes a Chinese pronunciation guide. Activities and recipes are rated for difficulty.
• It's Disgusting and We Ate It! True Facts From Around The World--And Throughout History
  By James Solheim and Eric Brace
  Published May 1998 by Simon & Schuster Children's
  You just can't get a good bowl of earthworm soup anymore... Solheim and Brace take readers age 4-8 on a culinary odyssey through countries and times gone by. Besides dishing up entertaining entrees, the authors provide poems, recipes, graphs, cartoons, and more.

*As most PBS children's programs offer one year extended taping rights for teachers, please feel free to tape them now and save them for use in your classroom during the school year.