Hello!
Thank you for your interest in Pizza, Pickles, and Apple Pie and Checkups, Shots, and Robots!
You may know this already, but I am a teacher too! Everyone assumes that I’m an elementary teacher or an art teacher, but I’m actually a high school English teacher who just loves to draw. However, I also love research and learning about new things, and one of my big goals for my readers is to inspire that same level of curiosity in them. And because kids will get interested in the stories they read in my books, it’s a great time to do some activities surrounding the book, no matter whether you do it as a read aloud or have a classroom set.
For one thing, it’s a perfect opportunity to help kids understand the concept of culture. My books cover many cultures that have made contributions to the history of food and medicine. Both are deeply embedded in cultural practices, and student may be interested to find out how far back both go in societies, and how cultures developed the same foods and medical treatments at the same time all across the world.
I also hope that students are inspired to research their own cultures. Kids can research the origins of a food to get a better understanding of their own culture and heritage, or famous doctors from their country of origin. Or just find something they are interested to know more about!
Pizza, Pickles, and Apple Pie Resources
Checkups, Shots, and Robots Resources (The book comes out on November 12th!)
Research a Doctor or Medical Device
Happy teaching!