Although no state standards specifically address teaching about bread or bread-making in medieval or colonial life, every set of state standards addresses issues of how people lived in other times and places. Typically, such standards are located among history or social studies standards. General standards that attend to such issues as culture, life in other places, the science and application of agriculture, foods and home economics, and literature are found throughout state standards in various places.

Learning about breads in historical settings and how it is important to understand bread and bread-making in society also contains elements of a broad literacy, that is, helping students grasp the meaning and place of things in their lives. The lessons "starters" that follow are targeted toward middle school students, where they could apply the lesson as part of some integrated unit on foods, or technologies, or medieval life, etc. However, this material could also be easily moved into the lower grades with greater emphasis on the examples of the various grains and breads, particularly if children could bake the breads themselves! The unit could also be used in senior high school classes concentrating on research activities and/or reading and writing. As determined by teachers, the standards applied here would vary from very specific history standards to more generic standards designed to explore diversity of life in various cultures.