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Seasonality: Everything In Its Own Time

Students will practice reading and math skills while tasting produce that is in season locally and creating a unique recipe using seasonally available ingredients.       What Pilot Light Teachers are saying: “Many children are not aware of where the food they eat comes from. Some students do not realize that the food that […]

Salad: Solutions & Mixtures

Students will be able to understand the characteristics of mixtures and solutions by creating their own salad dressings. What Pilot Light Teachers are saying: “This lesson was easy to implement. Students experimented with mixtures and solutions learning about solubility and density when mixing oil, vinegar, seasonings, and fruit.” -5th grade Science teacher Lesson Topics: Mixtures, […]

Refugee Camps & Cooking

Students will create a recipe similar to one that could be found in a refugee camp, identify living conditions of refugees, recall issues that refugees face concerning food, identify ways to be more understanding of others’ relationship with food, and manipulate recipes using problem-solving skills.       What Pilot Light Teachers are saying: “As […]

Pizza & Neighborhoods

Students will research neighborhoods in their city and create a signature pizza representing a neighborhood/area (current or historical identity) of their choice with less than 500 calories per slice. What Pilot Light Teachers are saying: “My students were able to use reading skills to identify key details when analyzing neighborhood descriptions. My students loved this […]

Noodles Around the World

Students will better understand the origins of pasta around the world and will better understand how to connect with their identity and others’ identities as they taste pasta (a dish loved around the world) together. What Pilot Light Teachers are saying: “This lesson was easy to implement. Students enjoyed having a hands-on lesson and able […]

Meat and Climate Change

Students will better understand how human activity contributes to climate change by creating a low-carbon dish intended to reduce the amount of carbon released into the atmosphere. Students will increase awareness of harmful carbon emissions that contribute to global warming and learn of various protein options that don’t challenge the environment as much as meat […]

Maple Syrup and Climate

Students will better understand the relationship between climate and its effect on maple syrup production by learning about how maple trees are tapped and the sap is processed into maple syrup.     Lesson Topics: Climate change, climate, maple syrup, trees, biosphere, foraging Curricular Connections: Common Core English Language Arts: Grades 3-5 Informational Text: Integration […]

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