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Dear Educators:
Welcome to the Nature's Pantry Teachers' Lounge! This educational unit on food plants was developed by The Field Museum and a team of Chicago-area teachers for 5th-7th grade students. Whether you teach science, history or art, the story of food plants can spice up your classroom study. Most of us know little about where we get our food, beyond the shelves of our local grocery market. But food plants are an easily-disgestible way to teach about botany, the slave trade, agriculture, the ancient cultures of Mesoamerica, economics, nutrition and how our need to feed ourselves impacts the environment. Since food plants are easy to obtain they provide excellent materials for simple lab experiments and projects.
You can use the Nature's Pantry: A Field Guide to Your Supermarket web site as a resource for your own preparation and/or for your students' research. The site contains textual information on many of our most important and loved foods and is flavored with images of items from The Field Museum's collections, maps, production graphs, interactive quizzes and animations.
In the Teachers' Lounge you'll find:
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Lesson Plans
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Individual and group work activities including career role playing, laboratory experiments, social science exercises, creative writing, art projects and recipes. For those of you in the Chicagoland area who can visit The Field Museum with your class, we've also created exhibit guides connecting several exhibits to these food plants.
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Student Activity Pages
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Printer-friendly worksheets, charts and activities to accompany lesson plans.
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