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Abbreviations, Substitutions, Equivalents, Cooking Terms
Young scholars review abbreviations of words used in recipes, acceptable substitutions of foods in recipes, standard equivalents of measurements and correct terminology of cooking terms through the use of written assignments.
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Easy Easter Crafts
Students make different crafts to represent spring and Easter. In this crafts lesson plan, students make cookies, nests, and bunnies out of their hands.
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Recipe For Disaster
Learners play an interactive game online to learn ratios. In this statistics lesson, students solve problems in an online game about ratio and relating statistics to the real world. This lesson provides hands on as well as teaching time.
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Reading, Writing, and Math in Daily Living
Learners use reading, math, and writing skills to complete this activity in which they make chocolate chip cookies. This lesson seeks to tie real-life skills to classroom learning to make curriculum more meaningful. While this activity...
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Australian food
Use ratio and proportions to adjust recipe size. Middle schoolers investigate Australian food and adjust the recipe size for said foods according to the given situation. They then prepare Australian foods.
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Cookies and Cream
Students listen to stories and identify the cause and effect situations in each. In this cause and effect lesson, students read the book If You Give a Mouse a Cookie and then make cookies and ice cream. Students identify the changes they...
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READING, WRITING, AND MATH IN DAILY LIVING
Young scholars make cookies together to help them better explain the practical application of reading, math and writing in a daily living skill.
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Confectionary Bureau of Investigations: Case of the Cookie Mystery
Students perform tests on different chemicals to determine their chemical properties. In this forensic science lesson, students identify an unknown sample using its physical and chemical properties. They solve a fictional crime using...
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Chocolate Asphalt Cookies
Young scholars investigate basic engineering principles, road construction and material science through a unique and fun hands-on activity.
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Proportions and Scale Factor for Measurement
Students explore the concept of proportion. For this proportion lesson, students use google maps to find the distance the their school is from home. Students discuss what a scale factor is through teacher led discussion. Students...
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Reading, Writing, And Math in Daily Living
Students, in groups, make chocolate chip cookies following a recipe.
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"Chips" Off the Old Block?
Students study using analogies between common items or occurrences and science concepts. They use the analogy of cookie recipes to that of the DNA "recipes" for living things to help us explain more about mutations.
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Recipe: Unit Rate
Students solve problems using ratios and proportions. In this algebra lesson, students identify the unit rate and convert between fractions and decimals. They create graphs from their data.
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Rock On!
Fourth graders make models of igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks out of different types of candy and cookies.
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Integrated Social Studies and Cooking Lesson
Fourth graders study the Civil War and discuss what soldiers ate during that time period. In groups, representing Union and Confederate soldiers, they follow recipes, prepare, eat, and share Union hardtack and Confederate Johnnie Cakes.
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Healthy Snacking for a Healthy Lifestyle
Students discuss healthy snacking and its importance for older adults, list types of snacks eaten daily, identify healthy snacks, review snacking tips, and review healthy snack recipes for ways to make snacks for older adults to enjoy...
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International Festival: Greece
Young scholars celebrate the culture of Greece. In this multicultural lesson, students participate in several activities which examine the culture of Greece. Young scholars study the Greek alphabet, identify the country on a world map,...
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Young Engineers: Understanding Engineering Through Cooking
Second graders explore different engineering careers. In this math lesson, 2nd graders create a winning cooking recipe. They role play a mock cookie sale during the culminating event.
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Chocolate Chipping Away at the Rock Cycle
Eighth graders identify the different types of rocks. In this earth science lesson, 8th graders compare and contrast rocks and chocolate cookies. They explain how materials are recycled beneath the Earth.
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Cooking Up Fractions
Students study fractions through recipes. They rewrite recipes multiplying and changing numbers. They research the Internet for recipes and rewrite fractions to indicate a particular serving. They rewrite directions to change the numbers...
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M&M Math
Learners research number values by participating in a candy exercise. In this math function lesson, students utilize baking ingredients to create cookies and multiply how many M&M's will go into the batch if you want a certain amount...
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The Joy of Giving
Children identify wants and needs, bake and sell cookies to raise money, and then go to the mall to purchase gifts for Christmas stockings that are donated to the Salvation Army. They then perform Graphing activities to help children...
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Minerals- the Building Blocks of Rocks
Students investigate how rocks are composed minerals by dissecting rock cookies.
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Children's Literature Across the Curriculum Ideas-The Gingerbread Man
Students read The Gingerbread Man by Karen Lee Schmidt. They complete a variety of cross-curricular activities that coincide with the reading of the book. Included are reading, art, math, science, writing, social studies, and library...