1 Select your favourite pizza activities from the assortment in this pack. These printable worksheets cater to a variety of levels and interests from reading, writing, maths and artistic pursuits. PAGE WORKSHEET TITLE SUBJECT AREA 2,3,4 Non-fiction text with questions and teacher answer page 5,6 Pizza Toppings Alphabet Order and teacher answers Reading Spelling/Writing 7 Pizza Adjectives Grammar 8 Pizza Acrostic Poem presentation page 9,10 How to Make Pizza sequencing and teacher answer page Writing Reading 11 Pizza Artist Art 12,13 Pizza Topping Votes Vertical Bar Graph and questions and teacher answer page 14 Pizza Portions use a protractor for even pieces of pizza 15 More Pizza Portions extend use of protractor to different number of portions 16,17 Pizza Symmetry cut and glue pizza toppings to create a symmetrical pizza. This could also be used as a counting activity. Maths Maths Maths Maths and creativity
2 Pizza has been part of the diet since the Stone Age in one form or another. It had its beginning as a crude bread baked on a fire beneath warmed stones and used as plates that soaked up the gravies of the meal. It was improved by the Greeks with the addition of toppings such as olive oil, herbs, raisins, nuts or honey. Back then it was an economical and convenient food for the workers. Later Persian soldiers used their shields to bake a flat bread and then topped it with cheese and dates when away on their long battles. It wasn t until the 1700 s that the pizza we know today became popular with its birthplace in Naples, Italy. This is when the tomato was introduced and became popular in Europe. Pizza was now no longer seen as a poor man s food. Within the next 100 years pizza became a very popular fast food with young boys peddling pizza on the streets. One of the most famous pizzas was made in 1889 using red tomato sauce, white mozzarella cheese and green basil leaves for Queen Margherita using the colours of the Italian flag. Italian immigrants took the pizza to all parts of the world where todays pizzas are characterised by soft flatbread bases with tomato and cheese topping. Pizza is still a simple, convenient and economical fast food with a long history. After reading about pizzas, answer the following questions. 1. When was the earliest form of pizza baked? 2. How did Persian soldiers cook their pizza?
3 3. Where was the birthplace of the modern pizza? 4. Who sold pizzas on the streets? 5. What other word/s could the author use in the text instead of crude economical peddling convenient 6. List all the pizza toppings mentioned. 7. What would be a good title for the text? 8. Why was the introduction of the tomato important in pizza history? 9. Why do you think pizza has been a popular food for so long? 10. Design an invitation to a Pizza Party for your friends and classmates. Make sure you include all the information needed.
4 1. When was the earliest form of pizza baked? The Stone Age 2. How did Persian soldiers cook their pizza? On their shields 3. Where was the birthplace of the modern pizza? Naples, Italy 4. Who sold pizzas on the streets? Young boys 5. What other word/s could the author use in the text instead of teacher to check crude basic, simple, rough, unsophisticated economical inexpensive, cheap, reasonable peddling selling, vending, dealing convenient handy, accessible, suitable 6. List all the pizza toppings mentioned. Olive oil, herbs, raisins, nuts, honey, cheese, dates, tomato sauce, mozzarella, basil 7. What would be a good title for the text? - teacher to check The History of Pizza, How We Got the Pizza, Fast Food From the Stone Age 8. Why was the introduction of the tomato important in pizza history? teacher to check Tomatoes were new and became a popular flavour and changed the pizza from a food only for the poor workers to a modern food for all, even a Queen. 9. Why do you think pizza has been a popular food for so long? teacher to check 10. Design an invitation to a Pizza Party for your friends and classmates. Make sure you include all the information needed. teacher to check May include where, date, time, who, what the party is for, RSVP- even ask for favourite type of pizza
5 Use your favourite Pizza Palace menu to help you complete this Pizza Topping Alphabet. Can you gather a topping for a pizza for each letter? A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Using your Pizza Topping Alphabet and create your own pizza using your first name. Sam s Pizza could have Salami, Anchovies and Mozzarella. What is your pizza? Is it yuck or yum?
6 Anchovies Artichoke Hearts Avocado Bacon Basil BBQ Chicken Beef Broccoli Baby Spinach Basil Capers Cheddar Cheese Cherry Tomatoes Chicken Chives Chorizo Coriander Cumin Dill Duck Eggplant Feta Cheese Garlic Goat Cheese Green Capsicum Ground Beef Ham Hot Chilli Flakes Italian Sausage Jalapeno Kalamata Olives Lobster Marjoram Meatballs Mozzarella Cheese Mushrooms Napoli Salami Olives Onions Oregano Oysters Parmesan Cheese Parsley Pepperoni Pineapple Prawns Prosciutto BBQ Sauce Red Capsicum Red Onion Ricotta Cheese Salami Salmon Shallots Spinach Sun Dried Tomato Tomatoes Tuna Turkey Unsalted Tomato Sauce Vine Ripened Tomato Watercress Wild Mushrooms Xtra special sauce Yellow Capsicum Zucchini
7 Use these Pizza Adjectives with Pizza Toppings and Pizza Varieties to create your own Pizza Acrostic Poem.
8 Use Pizza Adjectives with Pizza Toppings and Pizza Varieties to create your own Pizza Acrostic Poem. Hang or display your finished poem.
9 The instructions for making a pizza have been put in the wrong order. Read each instruction and decide the correct order. Cut out each instruction and glue so the instructions are in order. Make the dough. Sprinkle grated cheese on your pizza. Wash your hands. Place your pizza carefully in a preheated oven to cook. Put on an apron. Gather all the ingredients. Add your favourite toppings evenly over your pizza. Roll out dough into a round pizza base. When cooked and cooled cut into slices and enjoy. Spread your tomato sauce all over the base. CHALLENGE - Make a list of all the utensils you may need for this recipe.
10 The instructions for making a pizza have been put in the wrong order. Read each instruction and decide the correct order. Cut out each instruction and glue so the instructions are in order. 4. Make the dough. 7. Sprinkle grated cheese on your pizza. 2. Wash your hands. 9. Place your pizza carefully in a preheated oven to cook. 1. Put on an apron. 3. Gather all the ingredients. 8. Add your favourite toppings evenly over your pizza. 5. Roll out dough into a round pizza base. 10. When cooked and cooled cut into slices and enjoy. 6. Spread your tomato sauce all over the base. BONUS - Make a list of all the utensils you may need for this recipe.
11 Use the grid to help you become a Pizza Artist and create an exact copy of this slice of pizza. Add some colour if you wish.
12 Pizza Palace surveyed their customers favourite toppings for a week and have recorded the results in a bar graph. Use the bar graph to answer the questions. 300 250 200 150 100 50 0 Capsicum Ham Mushroom Onion Olives Pepperoni Pineapple Prawns 1. Which is the most popular topping? 2. How many customers have chosen either pepperoni or ham? 3. If 50 more customers chose mushrooms, what would be the new total? 4. Which toppings had less than 100 votes? 5. How many more customers chose onion than capsicum? 6. List the toppings in order from the most popular to the least. Create your own bar graph of favourite toppings with your classmates.
13 Pizza Palace surveyed their customers favourite toppings for a week and have recorded the results in a bar graph. Use the bar graph to answer the questions. 300 250 200 150 100 50 Capsicum Ham Mushroom Onion Olives Pepperoni Pineapple Prawns 1. Which is the most popular topping? Ham 2. How many customers have chosen either pepperoni or ham? 450 3. If 50 more customers chose mushrooms, what would be the new total? 175 4. Which toppings had less than 100 votes? Olives and prawns 5. How many more customers chose onion than capsicum? 50 6. List the toppings in order from the most popular to the least. Ham, pineapple, pepperoni, onion, mushrooms, capsicum, prawns and olives Create your own bar graph of favourite toppings with your classmates.
14 Nine children had worked hard to earn a portion of this pizza. The problem is that the pizza needs to be cut evenly into 9 pieces so each child receives an equal piece. Use a pencil, ruler and protractor to measure 9 equal sized pieces of pizza. HINT If there is 360 in a circle, how many degrees in one ninth of a circle? CHECK Cut out each of your 9 pieces of pizza and place them on top of each other. They should be all exactly the same size. Glue your pieces back together if you measured correctly. CHALLENGE Repeat this activity using the next page for a different number of equal pieces.
15 3 pieces 4 pieces 5 pieces 6 pieces 8 pieces 10 pieces CHECK Cut out each of your pieces of a pizza and place them on top of each other. They should be all exactly the same size if you measured correctly with your protractor. Glue your pieces back together and label if you measured correctly.
16 Put the pizza toppings onto the pizza to make it symmetrical. Cut and glue the different toppings from your topping sheet.
17 Choose the pizza toppings you need to make your pizza symmetrical. Mushrooms onion pepperoni pineapple ham olives capsicum tomato cheese