The Baking Project

The Baking Project comes to us from Ohio and takes students - and educators - through an entire project from anticipatory set to a reflection on the project. The project was the result of careful listening by the teachers in the class as well excellent home-school communication; parents had shared that their children were interested in cooking, at home. Hence, cooking in school was the natural next step! - I wonder if it was a supremely messy one?!

The Phases
The opening section provides an overview behind the project. Use the links to quickly link to the page, or wait and review the whole project on its homepage.

Phase 1  - Anticipatory webs, lists of story resources, how If You Give a Mouse a Cookie can be used.

PHASE 1

Phase 2 -  Using If You Give a Moose a Muffin and If You Give a Pig a Pancake to compare baked goods, potential field trips, and how children can record their learning.

PHASE 2

 Phase 3 -  How to provide a culminating event

PHASE 3

Phase 4 - Reflection

PHASE 4

Look For...
Integration of technology and the use of visual documentation of learning moments.

The whole project can be found at: THE BAKING PROJECT

Helpful Resources
THE DOCUMENTATION PANEL <- check this out! Don't miss the awesome extras in here! Stone Soup, retold by Willis Lindquist

Enemy Pie, by Derek Munson

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, by Laura Joffe Numeroff;

The Kids' No-Cook Cookbook, by Beth Goodman

My First Cookbook, by Rena Coyle and Jerry Joyner

The Very Hungry Caterpillar, by Eric Carle;

Cooking Art: Easy Edible Art for Young Children, by Violet Ann F. Kohl and Jean Potter.