Summer Program

This summer 2016 Global Partners Junior curriculum, Feeding Diversity, focuses on immigration and sustainability through the lens of food in cities around the world.

Students will research immigrant communities in their city, exploring how and why individuals or groups leave their native cities. They will reflect on their own backgrounds in order to consider how food and culture worked to shape their individual and community identities as they grew up. In addition, they will learn about the different locations from which food comes and discover what makes food sustainable.

At the end of the summer, students will choose an immigrant community on which to concentrate and design a food cart which will feature foods that reflect this community. As they create their menus and make plans for their carts, they will have to keep sustainability in mind, paying attention to how their food cart will run, and where they will obtain the ingredients necessary.

Download an overview of this exciting curriculum. Feeding Diversity was developed in alignment with the U.S. Common Core State Standards.