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School Partners in Food Heritage Preservation

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

We are inviting schools who book an assembly program from The FOOD Museum to participate in the following adventure in project-based learning.

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

For a one-time registration fee of $200, schools 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
• By arrangement, students and teachers will meet with Tom to either kick off the project, assess the progress of the research, or review the results. (This workshop with Tom must follow one of the museum’s outreach programs.)