The place Does Your Thanksgiving Dinner Come From? is an interactive storymap that I’ve shared previously and nonetheless discover attention-grabbing. The map shows the place eight common Thanksgiving meals are grown and harvested in the US. The storymap features a map for every ingredient. Every map reveals the areas of economic producers. Enjoyable details are included within the storymap too. For instance, do you know that Illinois has no less than twice as many acres of pumpkins as any state?

The place Does Your Thanksgiving Dinner Come From? reveals the place meals comes from in the present day, but it surely would not present the historic origins of conventional Thanksgiving meals. That is an attention-grabbing subject of its personal. It is Okay to Be Sensible and TED-Ed provide video classes that deal with the origins of conventional Thanksgiving meals. 

By way of It is Okay to Be Sensible’s The Stunning Origins of Thanksgiving Meals college students can find out how the commonest, conventional Thanksgiving meals originated and advanced to what they’re in the present day. This lesson contains a proof of how archaeologists and scientists decided that turkeys had been one of many first animals to be domesticated in North America. We additionally be taught why the turkeys we discover within the grocery retailer in the present day are a lot larger than these of just some generations in the past. 

Corn is commonly seen as a logo of Thanksgiving. At the moment, corn and lots of merchandise made with it are a staple of the diets of many people. How did corn turn into a staple of our diets? What has enabled it to turn into one of the cultivated crops on the planet? And what are the results of cultivating a lot corn? These questions and lots of others are addressed within the TED-Ed lesson titled How Corn Conquered the World.