Our School Lunch, Your School Lunch: Sharing Meals Across the World

Students introduce themselves and their school lunch to partner classes. If possible, they may do this through a short live video call. If a live exchange is difficult, students can share cards, pictures, or recorded messages instead. They will share their favorite foods and one thing they would like to learn about their partners' meals.

Students make simple cards showing their school lunch, favorite foods, meal times, and daily food customs in Japan, then write respectful questions they want to ask partner classes.

Students look at partner classes' lunch cards, answer each other's questions in a live video exchange, and add findings to a shared chart sorted into similarities and differences.

Students sort what they learned into similarities and differences, then talk about what surprised them most and how these differences help them understand other children's lives.

Students present their most surprising finding and reflect with partner classes on how learning about each other's meals has changed the way they see food and their own lunch.