How does rice grow?
Where in India is rice grown? Objectives Students will . . . • Identify countries mentioned in the text and locate them on a world map. • Use an atlas to identify the climatic conditions necessary for growing rice. • Explain the movement of cultural traditions from a country of origin to a new country. Standards Standard 1: How to use maps and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to acquire, process, and report information from a spatial perspective. Standard 3: Analyzing the spatial organization of people, places, and environments in a spatial context. Themes Place, Human-Environment Interaction, Movement, Region Multiple Intelligences Verbal-Linguistic, Visual-Spatial, Logical-Mathematical, Interpersonal-Social, Naturalist Materials Book, Everybody Cooks Rice by Norah Dooley Note cards for each country name, family name, country map, and recipe mentioned in Everybody Cooks Rice Large wall map of the world Classroom set of atlases Everybody Cooks Rice Comparison G
Rice grows in water. That’s why Asian countries grow it, relying on the rainy season. You plant seedlings of it, a few inches apart in the wet field before the rains come. It is harvested in September having survived a very hot August, and sometimes a dry one. However typhoons often come to keep a few inches of water always at the base. If it is really dry, countries rich enough have pumps to either flush dirty water out and top up the field with fresh water, or to refill it. Anyone who said it grows in “s–t” needs to come and take a look at a typical 2007 rice field. It is a haven for wild-life. Frogs, killi-fish, fresh water crabs, dragonfly larvae to mention a few. Of course mosquitoes too, which attract swallows and bats. Herons and cranes come there, and sometimes wild ducks take a vacation when the field is flooded. Rice needs a lot of rain, but also high temperatures. P.S.
