THEME, GOALS, AND OBJECTIVES

Theme:

• The soldier's diet affected not only his health, but his morale as well.

  Goals:

• To discuss the soldier's diet and methods of cooking with the students.
• To show that supplements to the basic army ration improved the soldier's health and his morale.

  Objectives: After participating in this program, the students will be able to:

• Name three basic food items that the army provided soldiers.
• Tell two ways that the soldier supplemented his diet (e.g. hunting, gardens, sutler store)
• Explain that cooking was a fatigue duty rotated among the soldiers.
• Define open-hearth cooking.

  Suggested Activities:

• Pass herbs around for the children to smell.
• Do a show and tell of the soldier's rations-eg. have the various items of the ration sat out on a table. Due to health codes, we cannot allow samples of food to be given to the children.
• Have children peek in the kitchen and identify items found in their kitchens at home that are
  not in the kitchen at the fort..