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A Christmas Activities eBook

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
Get in the Christmas spirit with an ebook detailing 18 holiday inspired arts and crafts, including pompom trees, placemats, paper chains, and more! 
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Reading Adventure Pack: Cooking

For Parents 1st - 2nd Standards
A Reading Adventure Pack focuses on cooking. After reading the fiction book Easy as Pie by Cari Best and the nonfiction book How Did That Get in My Lunchbox? by Chris Butterworth, scholars participate in three hands-on activities....
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Reading Adventure Pack: Food

For Parents K Standards
An activity packet all about food begins with reading two texts; Stone Soup by Marcia Brown or John Muth and Where Does Food Come From? by Shelley Rotner and Gary Goss. Learners then take part in three activities. They design a puzzle...
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Food and Cooking Safety: Grades K-2

For Teachers K - 2nd
A cut and paste activity emphasizes the importance of safety precautions while cooking and baking. After reading several kid-friendly articles, class members cut 10 safety ingredients to paste on the pot's corresponding shape.
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Heating Can Make a Change That Cannot Go Back Again

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Heat is a gateway to change. While exploring the properties of baking powder, pupils learn that some heat-related changes are permanent. Using an animation, the lesson uses chocolate chip cookies as an example.
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Making Up Your Own Recipe

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Baking is science with a sweet result. Learners begin by following a recipe to bake a cake. They then combine different ingredients, make observations, and use the information to modify the recipe to improve the product.
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Fractions as Percents: Baking Cookies

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
A five-question interactive challenges mathematicians to solve word problems involving fractions as percents. Baking two different types of cookies and needing the exact amount requires scholars to make fractions, turn them into...
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Bake Sale

For Students 5th Standards
Work with fractional cookies. The three-part assessment task checks the pupils' ability to find the product of fractions and whole numbers, mixed numbers, or fractions. Learners determine the amount of ingredients needed and how many of...
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Gingerbread Man Bake Sale

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
Gingerbread cookies aren't just a sweet treat! Scholars identity the amount of combinations a baker can make in his gingerbread cookies using limited quantities of decorating ingredients.
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Pan de los Muertos

For Teachers 6th Standards
Accompany instruction and the celebration of El Dia de los Muertos with a loaf of Pan de los Muertos. Here, scholars measure ingredients precisely to create tasty bread, write a remembrance for someone who has passed away, and take part...
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Family Time: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 5)

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Support English language development with a family-themed unit consisting of a series of lessons designed to get your scholars moving, looking, speaking, writing, and listening. Conversation topics include birthdays, family...
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The Stolen Smell

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Some smells are better than others! Explore your sense of smell with a series of activities based on the Peruvian folktale, The Stolen Smell. With exercises about phonics, counting, cooking, art, and drama, the lesson is a well-rounded...
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Hats off to Dr. Seuss Hat Toss

For Teachers K - 2nd
Focus on Dr. Seuss's cat's iconic hat with a crafty activity. Kids make their own red-and-white-striped hat and then toss paper balls into the hat. See who has the best aim! Additional Cat in the Hat materials are included.
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A Teacher's Guide to The Gingerbread Man Loose in the School

For Teachers K - 3rd Standards
What if the Gingerbread Man was trying to catch you, rather than the other way around? Pupils can find out what happens by reading the story The Gingerbread Man Loose in the School by Laura Murray and enrich their experience with the...
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Cooking Up Something Good

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students compare and convert units of measurement within the United States customary system and within the metric system by baking cookies. Students discuss how to double the cookie recipe, how to make only half of the recipe, and how to...
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Kids' Bread Restaurant

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students use technology as a tool for learning. They work together on a special project.
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Pizza Muffins & Podcasting

For Teachers K - 6th
Learners investigate life skills by participating in a voice recording activity. In this baking lesson, students identify the ingredients needed to create pizza menu items and the steps which should be taken to bake them. Learners...
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The Wolf's Tale Extension 2

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this Little Red Riding Hood learning exercise, students complete a word search to find what items she has in her basket. They get a recipe and directions for how to make scones. 
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Quick Breads, Biscuit Method Lab

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Learners watch the teacher demonstrate following the biscuit recipe. They follow the recipe themselves and prepare bread sticks and cinnamon rolls. While their breads are cooking, students work the provided crossword puzzle.
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Quick Breads, Muffin Method Demo

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students learn what quick breads are and that they belong to the Bread, Cereal, Grain Food Group on the Food Guide Pyramid which are high in Carbohydrates. They identify characteristics to look for in quick bread products, the...
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The Kindness Company

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students organize themselves into a simulated company complete with applications, interviews and training. They identify a community need they can fulfill related to cooking or sewing and work to make and deliver the designated product.
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Food, Food, and More Food from Plants!

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students use the scientific process of investigation to explore the mechanics of making ice cream, bread, pancakes, Kool-Aid and cake. They research foods and agriculture from the 1930's.
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Oklahoma Ag in the Classroom

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students make tortillas. In this tortilla lesson plan, students add the ingredients to a bag, mix the ingredients, roll the tortillas out, and cook them. They spend 3 minutes coming up with as many round things as they can.
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Baking

For Students 4th - 5th
In this word search worksheet, students solve a word search by locating thirty words related to baking. The word list includes flour and mix.