Below are links for lesson plan suggestions, games, activities and interesting tidbits. Whet your appetite for more about food - both at home and across the country!
Lesson Plans and Activities
Key Ingredients Teachers Guide - from Museum on Main Street
http://www.foodtimeline.org/food2a.html - The Food Timeline provides lesson plan links
http://www.jerseyhistory.org/curriculum.html - This site offers two NJ food activities: one on a colonial cookbook from NJ and one doing math with a cookbook.
New Jersey Food
www.slowfoodnnj.org
http://aboutblueberries.com/
http://www.foodtimeline.org/statefoods.html#newjersey
Trenton Farmer’s Market (article)
1837 Food Purchase Letter (care of Trenton Historical Society)
http://www.jerseybites.com/ - A blog about NJ food, restaurant reviews, and other tidbits!
Food in General
http://www.tomatocasual.com/
http://www.blueberrycouncil.org/kids-teachers.php
http://www.state.nj.us/hangout_nj/200211_cranberry_p1.html
http://www.100milediet.org/
A selection of YouTube Videos:
“Dinner in a 1950s Home”
“Jersey Diners: A Slice of Americana”
Videos from the Munchmobile
Michigan Foodways - from the Michigan Humanities Council