Shake-n-Bake

Grade Level:
First
(Minor modifications can adapt it  for Kindergarten or Second Grade) 

Subjects:
Language Arts
Mathematics
Science
Technology

Learner Outcomes:

The student will read to perform a task from recipe on the Internet.
The students will measure and mix ingredients.
The student will observe changes and agent of change.
Duration of Lesson:
1 1/2 to 2 hours

Materials:

student copies of The Little Red Hen,
measuring cups, measuring spoons, baking sheets, oil, timer, and
the following ingredients for each turn of the bread recipe:

1/2 cup bread flour
1 package (1 tablespoon) active dry yeast 
1 cup warm water
4 tablespoons honey 
1 egg
2 tablespoons nonfat dry milk 
1/2 stick butter or margarine 
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
about 3 cups flour
1 gallon size heavy duty freezer bag
 

Technology Tools:
Computer with Internet Access
Data Projector

Teacher Notes:

  • Have all students wash their hands before preparation of bread.
  • Have a clean work area.
  • Check with cooks prior to lesson to assure kitchen use.
  • Parent volunteers to help with bread preparation.
  • Internet Permission forms

Procedures:

  Read The Little Red Hen with a partner.

  Visit How Bread Is Made, read and discuss.

  Make bread with the students following the Breadmaking-in-a Bag Sweet Roll Dough recipe.

  Let cool and enjoy!

Modifications:
Follow special needs procedures.

Enrichment Activities:

Make My Favorite Sandwich book.  Instruct students to talk to their parents about the students' favorite type of sandwich.  Students should come to school with a list of ingredients for their favorite sandwich.  Students list the ingredients in the order they put them on the bread on 5 - 7 copies of a bread slice shaped paper.  Illustrate the items on each page.   Cut a "bite" out of the finished sandwich book.

Evaluation:
The finished product, the bread, serves as the evaluation.

S = Follows written directions, measures, and mixes to make an edible bread.
U = Does not follow written directions, measures, or mixes to make an edible bread.
 

National Standards:

Language Arts:
  • Uses reading skills and strategies to understand a variety of informational texts.
Mathematics:
  • Knows the processes  for measuring using basic standard units.
Science:
  • Knows that things can be done to materials to change some of their properties, but not all materials respond the same way to what is done to them.

 
Technology:
  • Knows basic distinctions among computer software programs, such as word processors, special purpose programs, and games.

West Virginia Instructional Goals and Objectives:

Language Arts:
  • Reading Comprehension  1.42
Mathematics:
  • Measurement 1.42
Science:
  • Nature of Science 1.3, 1.4
  • Scientific Processes/Thinking Skills 1.17, 1.21

 
Technology
  • 1.120

Authors:
Lola Brown
Michelle Kelley
Tammy Stalensky

Harden Elementary
2000 School of Excellence
1999, 2000 West Virginia Title I Distinguished School


Overview
Lesson 1
Lesson 2
Lesson 3
Lesson 4
Lesson 5

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