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A Recipe for Success: Cooking with Your Class

For Teachers 1st - 6th
When you cook with your class, you build community while improving language arts and math skills.
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Family Cookbook

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders, in groups, produce a Family Cookbook by bringing recipes from home.
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Following a Recipe

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students create a cookbook.  In this recipe and writing lesson, students brainstorm the skills necessary to follow a recipe, watch a cooking show and write down a recipe used.  Students use a word processing program to write a...
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Working Watermelon

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
You're going to wish you had a watermelon for this instructional activity! Class members read about watermelons and make a salad in class to sample. They also perform estimates, measurements and calculations on a watermelon. They predict...
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Cory in the House: "New Kid in Town"

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students, after watching the program "New Kid in Town," are introduced to the White House in Washington, D.C. They explore the difficulties of fitting into a new environment along with new acquaintances. They stress and address the...
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Cook-A-Doodle Doo! Lesson Plan

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Learners enjoy the excitement in the short story, Cook-A-Doodle-Doo! In this Cook-A-Doodle Doo! lesson plan, students work to tell the difference between fact and fiction, learn vocabulary, and compare and contrast different stories.