Cannon STEM Book of the Month
April 2016
From the Publisher
Cannon Salsa Taste Off!
Imagine: Create the best salsa for the Cannon Salsa Taste Off!
Plan: Research what makes a great salsa recipe and plan out your ingredients. Be creative! Think about the types of ingredients you could use that we've planted in our school garden!
Design: Using your iPad, record a 2-3 minute video explaining the steps used to make your recipe. (See the video example below)
Improve: Taste time! What does your salsa need more of?
Share: Bring your salsa and some chips to the Cannon Country Cook Off to enter it in the Salsa Taste Off!
Check out this video example of how to prepare salsa. Remember keep your video between 2-3 minutes in length and e-mail them to Mrs. Berumen! YOU just might see yourself on KCAN! :)
About The Author
Meet Jorge Argueta
Jorge Tetl Argueta is a celebrated Salvadoran poet and writer whose bi-lingual children’s books have received numerous awards. His poetry has appeared in anthologies and textbooks. He won the America’s Book Award, among other awards for his collection of poems for children, A Movie in My Pillow. He was the Gold Medal Award winner in the 2005 National Parenting Publications Awards (NAPPA) for Moony Luna/Luna, Lunita Lunera. His other works for children include Xochiti and the Flowers, 2003 America’s Award Commended Title, Trees are Hanging from the Sky, Zipitio, Talking with Mother Earth, The Little Hen in the City and The Fiesta of the Tortillas.