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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

Reading

5,6 Pizza Toppings– Alphabet Order and teacher answers

Spelling/Writing

7 Pizza Adjectives Grammar

8 Pizza Acrostic Poem –presentation page

Writing

9,10 How to Make Pizza– sequencing

and teacher answer page

Reading

11 Pizza Artist Art

12,13 Pizza Topping Votes –Vertical Bar Graph and questions and teacher answer page

Maths

14 Pizza Portions—use a protractor for even pieces of pizza

Maths

15 More Pizza Portions– extend use of protractor to different number of portions

Maths

16,17 Pizza Symmetry—cut and glue pizza toppings to create a symmetrical pizza. This could also be used as a counting activity.

Maths and creativity


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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?

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2. How did Persian soldiers cook their ‘pizza’?

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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. ____________________________________________

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7. What would be a good title for the text?

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8. Why was the introduction of the tomato important in pizza history?

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9. Why do you think pizza has been a popular food for so long?

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10. Design an invitation to a Pizza Party for your friends and classmates .

Make sure you include all the information needed.


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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


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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?

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? _______________________

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


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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

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

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


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Use these Pizza Adjectives with Pizza Toppings and Pizza Varieties to create your own Pizza Acrostic Poem.


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Use Pizza Adjectives with Pizza Toppings and Pizza Varieties to create your own Pizza Acrostic Poem. Hang or display your finished poem.


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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.


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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.


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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.


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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.

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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. _____________________

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Create your own bar graph of favourite toppings with your classmates.


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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.

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200

150

100

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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.


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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.


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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.


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Put the pizza toppings onto the pizza to make it symmetrical.

Cut and glue the different toppings from your topping sheet.


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Mushrooms

onion

pepperoni

pineapple

ham

olives

capsicum

tomato

cheese

Choose the pizza toppings you need to make your pizza symmetrical.

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