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Professional Development Workshop for Teachers

As The FOOD Museum travels the country with museum outreach programs during the next school year, we also will be researching the rich heritage of America’s food history sites for an upcoming book.

We are inviting schools to participate in this research.

• Classroom students will explore their neighborhoods and larger communities, seeking out food heritage sites, and recording the stories of the people and the history behind these specific sites. They will make use of the Internet, local institutions, libraries, and their own curiosity.

• The results of their efforts—writeups, photos, videos and the like—will be logged into a special section of The FOOD Museum website, www.foodmuseum.com. Once reviewed and edited, the results will be made public.

• Some of the information collected will be included in an upcoming book on food heritage sites of the United States, with full credit given to students and schools for their contributions.

The overall heritage project is explained in depth here: www.foodmuseum.com/foodheritagehome.html.

Schools hiring the teacher workshop will receive the following:

• Curricula, instructions and research tools for teachers with which to launch the project with their students.
• Background information on “Project-Based Learning.”
• Web access to specific “closed” pages on www.foodmuseum.com.
• Follow-up contact for students with Tom Hughes.

Cost of teacher workshop__$450 (One 60 minute hands-on program)

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