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with Curriculum
for Grades 2-6

This curriculum has been designed to help you get the most out of the traveling exhibit. Not only will you find its content particularly helpful before and after children interact with the educational components of the exhibit, but it can be used as stand-alone material as well. The information in the Exhibit Guide, found on pages 13-36, will help you to design classroom exercises that stimulate children to think about the interaction between soil, food, and health, and therefore encourage them to implement changes in their lifestyles that will improve their overall health and fitness.

This is a 49-page Adobe Acrobat .pdf file that is approx. 4mb. It may take awhile to download (depending on your connection) but it's worth it!

FOLLOW THE EXHIBIT, ITS TRAVELS, AND THE ADVENTURES OF ONE SMART WORM.

Springfield, Missouri
Johnny Earthworm here, your tour guide extraordinaire! I had so much fun during my visit to the Discovery Center from February 20 through May 14, 2004. Almost 9000 kids came to see me and learn about all the benefits of organically grown food. I was happy to find out that after visiting my Exhibit, kids understood that compost is good for the soil. They also learned that healthy soil is really important if you want to grow healthy food...which means that healthy soil is also important to keep people feeling good! After all, that's what I always say: Healthy soil = healthy food = healthy people!
Visit the Discovery Center

San Mateo, California
I had a great time vacationing in San Mateo, California this summer. My friends at Coyote Point Museum for Environmental Education on the San Francisco Bay really gave me the star treatment. They had a "vegetable medley" of fun all summer long (May 18 to August 18, 2002) in honor of me and my Healthy Soil, Healthy Food, Healthy People® exhibit. My exhibit is now so famous that in May and June, almost 18,000 people came to learn about the connection between soil, food, and human health.

There was a lot going on at Coyote Point this year. On June 14, they had their 3rd annual "School's Out" event: Slugs, Bugs and Butterflies. Kids got to make Paper Garden™ butterflies from Kidsregen.org. They also celebrated me and my Exhibit with a special food drive that helped the Second Harvest Food Bank bring food to kids (and pets, too!) who need it. They also made a Kids' Garden, where the Young Discovery Summer Day Camp and other kids who visited the museum grew salad greens, tomatoes, carrots, cucumbers, and more. This special garden was treated people to tours, workshops, and even garden art!

Parents had fun too, making Composting Worm Bins (wow!). Composting bins are just the kind of place where my worm buddies and I feel right at home, as we make healthy garden soil to grow your favorite veggies in.

I hear they had a Nutrition Olympics in August at Coyote Point Museum. Healthy nutrition sounds like a gold medal winner to me! Want to be a star? Get your story online for kids around the world to read. Click here to find out how!
Visit Coyote Point Museum

Allentown, Pennsylvania
Guess who was showing from October 2, 2001 to January 15, 2002 at The Baum School of Art in Allentown, PA? Monet? Van Gogh? Okay, I confess, it was me, Johnny Earthworm, along with my Exhibit. At The Baum School of Art, kids toured the exhibit and went to art workshops where they got to do fun projects like bookmaking and drawing fruits and vegetables. Click here to see their artwork. They even had textured paper-making projects where they made collages about me and my exhibit using shapes and rubbings from organic items like cornhusks and leaves! Altogether, 34 classrooms of with a total of approximately 700 students came to visit the exhibit and learn why Healthy Soil = Healthy Food = Healthy People™. The Baum School of Art + my exhibit = fun! Send me a picture of some things you’ve made using items from nature!
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Phoenixville, Pennsylvania
My friends at Camphill Village Kimberton Hills brought the Exhibit to the Foundry Building in Phoenixville, PA, from July 7 through Labor Day, 2001. Kimberton Hills is on a 430-acre (that's big!) organic farm in Kimberton, PA and is home to adults with developmental disabilities and volunteer co-workers. In Phoenixville, Eastern College staff brought a group of inner-city kids from the Commodore Barry School to the Exhibit. Here are some of the things I heard from 9- and 10-year-olds from Commodore Barry and Chesterbrook Academy:

"I won a bicycle race! That means I'm healthy!"
"I like the farmers the best. I like the way they talk to you and then you get to see how they do things. The experiments are neat too."
"Lining up the colors on the cylinders was easy and helped me learn why things are good for me."

After the kids in Phoenixville visited me at the Exhibit, they had the chance to head over to the St. John's United Church of Christ Organic Community Garden and work in a real organic garden! (First you see it, and then you do it. Very cool!) Anyone can have a free place to garden there if they give 10% of their harvest to someone who needs food. They even had a pick-and-eat-your-own-organic-tomato picnic on August 26, 2001. If you could not get to the Exhibit, you can start looking for organic gardening projects to do in your town or in your own back yard.
Visit Camphill Village Kimberton Hills

Shiga, Japan (Click on the images to see them larger)
My friends at Shinji Shumeikai liked my exhibit so much, they decided to show it at the Eco-lifestyle Festival in Shiga, Japan, from July 20, 2001 to August 19, 2001. This is where a big group of people got together because they all care about healthy water, soil, food, and worms (I mean, people!). Over 87,000 people visited the festival in just one month. Here's what they said!

"I will treasure the soil."
"We should not use pesticides."
"I liked the health o' meter and went back there many times."
"It was fun. The computer game was interesting!"

In Shiga, I speak Japanese; in America, I speak English, but there is one thing for sure. In any language, Healthy Soil = Healthy Food = Healthy People®. More of my friends in Japan will get to see me since the exhibit has also gone to a place called Misono (outside of Kyoto), and will travel to other towns, too. I'll keep the stories of my adventures coming to you. Stay tuned!
Visit Shiga, Japan

Washington, D.C.
From March 8, 2001 to June 17, 2001, over 36,000 people visited me at The Capital Children's Museum in Washington, D.C., the place that worked with The Rodale Institute to create the Exhibit. Here at the Exhibit's first stop, I "wormed" a few comments from kids like you, and this is what you said:

"I learned about healthy soil. I didn't know there were bugs in the soil."
"I did learn some new things about the soil and farmland. Having two farmers that used different methods helped to make it easier to understand."
"I know you have to eat good stuff to be healthy and not get sick. Like, not much candy and potato chips. I liked trying different foods and drinks [on the scale] to see if you are healthy."
Visit the Capital Children's Museum