Food In the Big Apple

Everything You Need To Know

Food in the Big Apple is grounded in the federal MyPlate curriculum and each recipe provides nutritious hands-on and minds-on engagement. Students are engaged in STEM by learning about food, culture, nutrition and sustainability solutions found in NYC. By integrating engaging content with STEM, CityScience provides the "who, what, when, where, why and how" food relates to our lives and our communities.

Check out the big picture to learn more about the content integrated into each week. STEM is best learned in the context of other subjects fostering creativity, originality and critical thinking among students and teachers.

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Learning Objectives

Over the course of 10 weeks, students will:

Enjoy the five food groups using all five senses
Understand fats, proteins, and carbohydrates
Identify physical and chemical changes
Understand the plant parts we eat
Share and make new cultural connections with food
Connect food and sustainability

Program Flow

Students prepare one recipe a week for seven weeks and spend three weeks implementing a final project based on what they've learned.

Fruit salad engages all of the senses and builds basic knife skills.

Pizza lens for exploring physical and chemical changes.

Tacos - use ingredients from all 5 food groups

Stir-Fry cooks with every part of the plant.

French Toast is a sweet solution for stale bread.

Vegetable sushi teaches the importance of superfoods.

Pita pockets & the micro-organism that make cheese

Weeks 8 - Field trip or guest speaker

Weeks 9 - student choice

Week 10 - student choice

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Pricing

The fee for this 10-week Exploration is $345 per week and includes:

Instructor for up to 2 hours a day, meeting once a week
Durable and consumable supplies for up to 25 students
Complete curriculum and digital teaching materials that can be used in perpetuity by our clients

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