Pick Your Plate E-Course

Let's learn more about how we choose the foods we like to eat with a very famous foodie: Chef Julia Child! This resource provides content for young learners that covers:

  • How Julia Child learned to cook and made fancy food accessible to everyone
  • How people use gardens to grow their own food today and in the past
  • Extension activities to help young children learn more about food and cooking!

Categories

Age Group: Preschool
ELOF Domain: Perceptual, Motor, and Physical Development
Resource Format: E-Activity
Language: English
Smithsonian Museum: National Museum of American History
Topic: Food
"Food Spread" from National Museum of American History, an image of a fully set table with plates of a variety of foods

Part of the Following Programs

A pink jackalope puppet stands next to a man playing the guitar. On their left is a red ruffed lemur and on their right is a California sea lion.

Fancy Food

What do animals eat? What do humans eat? Are animal diets and human diets similar, different, or both?
Content Unit :
Food
Featured Creature :
Red ruffed lemur, California sea lion
Smithsonian Partners :
National Museum of African American History and Culture; National Museum of American History; National Museum of Asian Art; National Museum of Natural History
ELOF Standards :
IT-C 1; IT-C 3, IT-PMP 4; IT-PMP 11; P-SCI 2; P-PMP 1; P-PMP 5
A cartoon character of a man holding a guitar and a pink jackalope puppet stand next to a western lowland gorilla and a red ruffed lemur.

Food with Friends

Explore the foods that people and animals eat! Discover how our meals can be similar and different, and how sharing food can bring us together.

Content Unit :

Food

Featured Creature :

Western Lowland Gorilla + Red Ruffed Lemur

Featured School :

Holyoke-Chicopee-Springfield Head Start (Massachusetts)

ELOF Standards :

Approaches to Learning; Social and Emotional Development; Language and Communication; Scientific Reasoning