(Interest Inquiry)
From the Soil to a Slice
Pizz-A-Thon(mock pizza business)
The Pizz-A-Thon: most effective program to teach the link between food, food production
and agricultural related careers.To adapt to your goals, see www.pizz-a-thon.com
With the website, much of the activities are designed for independent student learning with less of a teacher or
leaders time in facilitating.
Major Goals in this fun agrculture literacy program
 Work as teams in developing a new pizza and marketng the pizzeria
 Learn where food comes from by tracing each process from slice to soil
 Learn of the many jobs available as caeers following the journey from slice to soil
 Understand the value of soil & water conservation through experimenting
How the Program Works (learning science, math, health, art, language arts and social studies)
Teams carry out the following activities “in or after school”:
1. Surverying to determine the most popular pizza for the future, creating the recipe for a “prize winning
pizza,” calculating calorie content and nutritional value.
2.Researching and analyzing the many careers involved in the food industry, tracing pizza ingredients to
the source…farm, through livestock, crops and into the soil.
3. Experimenting and discovering the value of protecting top soil from erosion, where growth of
corn and soybeans roots and plants are compared in Plexiglass growth box.
4. Marketing the “prize pizza” using desk top foldout display, logos and placemats and providing a five
minute team marketng report.
5. Growing some of the pizza ingredients in the garden, demonstrating non processed food.
6. News reporting: Record activities with photographs and news stories.
7. Teams prepare their pizza, give a marketng presentation and are judged.
Awards provided,
families explore, discover and create, 1st home school Pizz-A-Thon-Marion, IA
Created at Iowa State Universty, 16 years in development. Author: Eldon Weber [email protected]
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Program Planning Worksheet
List your name, address, tel# and email address
Teacher/leaders
Address
Tel#
Email Address
School/Youth Group__________________________Grade______, Number of Students _______,
First review the files in the Lessons and Activities page of the web site www.pizz-a-thon.com .
Below explain extent of your interest and time period you would be teaching or carrying out the
following optional actvities: specify month______ weeks_____ to devote to Pizz-A-Thon. (explain)
Conservation (using an apple, demonstrate the small % of Earth with adequate soil to grow food.)
Experimenting and discovering the value of protecting top soil from erosion, where growth of
corn and soybeans roots and plants are compared in Plexiglass growth box. Any other experimenting?
Surveying friends and others to determine the most popular pizza now and projected for the future,
creating your recipe for a “prize winning pizza,” calculating calorie content and nutritional value.
Researching and analyzing the many careers involved in the food industry, tracing pizza ingredients
to the source-farm, livestock, crops & into the soil. Career of most interest? Visit a farm?
Marketing the “prize pizza”,jingles, commercials, coupons, logos and placemats and providing a five minute
team marketng report using desk top foldout display.
Growing some of the pizza ingredients in the garden, demonstrating freshly grown, not processed food.
News reporting: Record activities with photographs and news stories. Consider submitting for publishing.
Which option sounds best to you?
___Teams prepare their pizza, give a marketng presentation and are judged (with awards ceremony).
___Teams prefer demonstrating at a family night or county fair,
___Teams conduct all activities with no demo or compettion.
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To cover costs, each youth group or school requires additional Sponsorships
Materials:
(Facilitator Guide, Plexiglas plant/root experimenting box, t shirts, medallions for winners, ribbons.)
Expense of materials and awards covered by sponsorship. Cost-$25 per team member if all members are
to receive a t shirt.
If only the winning teams receive t shirt and medallons and each team receives a
Plexiglas Plant/Root expermenting observaton box, cost is $500 to carry out all activities with an awards
Ceremony following the judging (preparing the team pizzas and presenting a 5 minute team marketng report.)
If ordering where you are paying the cost, list Number of team members ____ x $25 = $_______
When ordering: Email Eldon Weber [email protected]
List t shirt sizes: Number of Adults (XXL, XL, L,M. S)
Number of Youth ( XL, L, M. S)
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Obtain Sponsorships to help pay the cost of the Pizz-A-Thon
Sponsor Application
List the most likely sponsors in your community. _____________________
Sponsor Commitment.
$______ Sponsor Amount, _______________
____________________
____________
Name
____________________
Tel. #
____________________
Address
Email Address
Contact___________
*Anchor Sponsor (highest donor) featured on the
Send check to: Pizz-A-Thon Partnership
P.O. Box 1932
Ames, IA 50010
Billboard
www.pizz-a-thon.com
Range of Sponsorship Fees to over 16 year period to date:
__$100,__ $250, __$500, __$1,000, __$2,000
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