The FOOD Museum Educational Programs

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The FOOD Museum's
Educational Programs

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A Museum Field Trip
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Take a look at the museum's unique and successful programs.

Read what educators and parents say about the programs.

Using artifacts collected from around the world,
Tom explores the little-known story of the foods we eat.

Learn how your students can participate in an original research project
about their local food history and food heritage sites.

The purpose of our museum outreach is multi-faceted:

To bring museum outreach programs to schools, libraries, museums and other venues.
To research the food history of the United States for our second guidebook on food museums and food heritage sites, and to collect stories and artifacts relevant to that subject.
To visit and promote as many Edible Schoolyard Projects as possible.
To promote our first guidebook, Gastronomie! Food Museums and Heritage Sites of France, to be published by Bunker Hill in October.

Here's how our longer PROGRAMS & PROJECTS looked at one school.

Everyone loves food and people of all ages enjoy learning about where food plants and animals came from, how they've traveled, and how people grow, prepare and celebrate food in different parts of the world. We bring this celebration of food to classrooms, school auditoriums, senior centers, libraries, conventions, trade shows, natural foods stores, restaurants, festivals---wherever people gather.

The FOOD Museum's top four programs available for hire are "Planet Potato," "Chocolate, Chiles, Corn and More: Foods of the Americas," "Everybody Likes Rice," and "Lunchtime Around the World."

Contact us directly for detailed information about bringing these programs to you.

The FOOD Museum's programs involve students actively in math, science, history and geography, global awareness, and the arts.

Mathematics

These children learn data analysis by graphing their ice cream preferences in person and on paper. Note a child at front of each row holds ( from left) a cacao pod, a vanilla bean, and a strawberry toy.

Global Awareness

Musuem programs reveal cultural practices from around the world. These children have made and samples Thai foods connected to Loy Kratong, the festival of the blessing of water. Now they show their "banana leaf" boats, decorated with incense, coins and flowers period. Released on the water, the boats are said to carry away the year's trouble.

Art and artifacts

A boy manipulates a real crab trap and later creates a paper plate crab based on a brass crab inkwell from The FOOD Museum's collection.

Science

Kids pretend to be molecules inside a kernel of corn. Packed closely together when cool, the molecules leap about when heated up in the making of popcorn.

History and Geography

Students role play the Columbian exchange of foods as a galleon crosses the Atlantic to Spain from the Americas carrying tomatoes, peppers and corn. It returns with cattle, sheep, pigs and wheat.

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