Pizza: Any Way You Slice It!
On Exhibit: January 18 – May 24, 2010
Learn the basics of math with an incredibly popular food…pizza! Pizza: Any Way You Slice It! encourages playful, open-ended exploration by focusing on three areas: making, delivering and eating pizza. Children are instantly drawn to this exhibit that informally teaches counting, sorting, measuring, gathering, matching, patterning, sequencing, role-playing and sharing.
Things to Do:
- Pizza Parlor: Get behind the counter, put on an apron and take orders on the phone with a number of engaging phone recordings.
- Pizza Kitchen: Make pizzas with a wide variety of toppings, use recipes and measure toppings.
- Delivery Spots: Make deliveries to three locations, complete with doors that open for receiving pizzas, perfect for role-playing.
- Giant Pizza Couch: Get into this massive pizza and pile up yummy, super-sized toppings to make the perfect larger-than-life pizza.
- Pizza Fact Fun: Discover fun pizza facts, including information on popular pizza toppings around the world and right here in the United States.
- Slice It Up Table: Work on division with pizzas that divide into different fractional parts. Discover how fractions change by taking slices away or putting them together to make a whole.
- Pizza Book Stop: Learn about pizza through a number of books on the subject.
Sponsored locally by the Gantz Family Foundation, with additional support from Pizano's Pizza & Pasta. Pizza: Any Way You Slice It! was developed by the Omaha Children’s Museum.
