I created this activity as part of an engineering summer camp curriculum for middle school students. It’s a short activity that can be completed in 2 hours. This lesson plan could easily be modified for just about any age group.The students loved this activity. They found the videos fascinating and liked considering the possibility of…
Discovery Island at Disney’s Animal Kingdom has a little lounge and restaurant tucked away in a relatively quiet area of the park. Tiffins is a fine dining table service restaurant that features globally inspired dishes and artwork. Before eating here, I imagined Tiffins being a more sophisticated version of Jungle Skipper Canteen in the Magic…
The Land Pavilion has a new show, Awesome Planet. It’s replacing the long-running Lion King Circle of Life. When I first heard about this show, it sounded like a placeholder while Imagineers work on something else, this still could be the case. Nonetheless, it was an incredibly enjoyable show. The premise is that Ty Burrell…
The EPCOT International Festival of the Arts has slim pickings for vegetarians and vegans. Aside from the plant-based bratwurst in the Refreshment Outpost, vegetarians and vegans can also try the vegetable gyoza in Japan. The vegetable gyoza comes with two dumplings filled with veggies and edamame. It’s served with truffle mashed potatoes, mushrooms, pepper strings,…
After returning to Africa from our journey to Rafiki’s Planet Watch, we were ready for some sustenance to keep us going on our journey through Disney’s Animal Kingdom. We decided to stop at Harambe Market (which was conveniently located to the train station) to try the plant-based vegetable rice bowl. The vegetable rice bowl comes…