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End of Year Project: Solar Oven Investigation
This is the perfect end of the year project to keep your students engaged! Includes project guidelines and expectations, charts, graphic organizers, rubric and more!
4th - 6th
Engineering, Graphing, Other (Math)
CCSS, NGSS
5.MD.B.2
, MP1
, MP2
+7
Cooking Time A Cooking Math Project on the Importance of Time in the Kitchen
Middle school students learn time-efficient strategies to prepare everyday meals. Engage your students with cooking lessons that combine time pressure and kitchen skills! Teach them the best way to hard boil eggs. Role-Play short order cooking! Perform a science culinary experiment with simple spaghetti. Adolescents love to cook for themselves. Given the right tools in the kitchen, this can be a powerful way for them to learn math, problem solving, and self-efficacy that they are capable of ca
7th - 10th
Math, Science
Also included in: STEAM Project on the History of Time
Project Based Learning- Wedding Cookie Table Planning (Multiplication)
Students will pretend they are wedding planners and help the bride and groom plan for their wedding cookie table. Read about the Pittsburgh-based tradition within the project and use websites of local bakeries to develop price quotes for the client. Students must use multiplication and online tools to complete this activity.
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3rd - 7th
Basic Operations, Other (Math)
Solar Oven Design | Edible STEM Activities
Cook with the power of the sun! In this interdisciplinary Design unit, students explore sustainability, environmental science, and engineering through the hands-on challenge of building and testing a fully functional solar oven. Across four scaffolded lessons, learners investigate how solar energy works, analyze existing cooker designs using ACCESS FM and the 5W’s, write their own design specifications, and prototype a working model. Through structured testing—and a final solar cooking day—they
5th - 8th
Earth Sciences, Engineering, Environment
Also included in: Candy STEM Design Challenge Bundle | Edible STEM Activities
Food, Culture & Power: Appropriation vs. Appreciation Project
🍽️ Food, Culture & Power ProjectAppropriation vs. Appreciation • Ingredient Mapping • Cultural AnalysisFood isn’t just food. It tells a story. This engaging, real-world project challenges students to explore the hidden history behind what we eat—from ingredient origins to cultural meaning—and decide: 👉 Is this appreciation… or appropriation?✨ What Students Will DoStudents will choose a dish and: ✔️ Map where ingredients originally came from vs. where they come from today ✔️ Compare tradi
6th - 12th, Higher Education
Geography, World History, Writing-Essays
Integrated Prealgebra and Cooking Project Ratios and Scale
This project integrates the subject of pre-algebra (ratios and scale) with baking bread. This project includes history and writing and can easily be extended to include teachers from those subjects as well.
Students learn:
• Scaling fractions
• Equivalent fractions
• Solving proportions
• Baking
• Scaling recipes
• Converting servings to loaves to recipes
• Traditional first Thanksgiving recipes
• Creating their own recipes
• Writing about their creations
• Describing their ratios so people c
4th - 9th
Fractions, Native Americans
Spanish Cookbook Project
Doing a unit on food? Have your students create a cookbook in Spanish using formal commands. Great for distance learning! Perfect for levels 2 and up (if you have already covered/or are currently teaching commands) Materials included: Student instructions Model entry Rubric
7th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Spanish
STEAM Spaghetti Utensil Invention GATE Project Based Learning Standards K-8
Mama Mia! This is a Special STEAM Spaghetti Invention GATE hands-on Project based learning lesson. This involves your class coming up with their own Spaghetti Utensil Invention to test, do trials and use the Invention process to create something unique. Plus, you'll get a bonus creativity activity to help your Gifted and Talented students to work on Fluency, Elaboration, and Originality with the "Spaghetti" Design Enrichment document! Each Product includes: Detailed Teacher Directions, Website
K - 8th
Science
STEAM Rice Krispie Gingerbread Style Architectural Hands-on Project GATE K-5
STEAM Christmas- Rice Crispy Treat Gingerbread Style Architectural -Hands on Project!Excellent for Entire Grade Levels, Parent/child Holiday nights, Gifted and Talented Programs, etc. Includes: Detailed Teacher directions, Website Resources Page, Standards, Student Instruction/Planning Sheet , Parent/Family Letter requesting supplies. The Student sketch pages come in half-page sizes for saving on paper purposes. It is also comes in regular full size if you want that as an option. The Family Let
K - 5th
Science
A complete visual cooking project for Cherry Crumble, incl. 10+ extra resources
This 35+ page recipe pack contains *everything* you need to have learn new life skills while engaged in the fun activity of baking Cherry Crumble. It's been tried and tested in schools in pre-K, Kindergarten and grades 1, 2 and 3. As seen in book 'Little Cookery: The complete guide to teaching young kids to cook'. The recipe is built around a set of highly structured, illustrated recipe steps. Because each step relies on a system of color-coded measurements (the Cooking by Color™ method) these
PreK - 5th
Project Based Learning / Food Truck / Restaurant / GATE Teacher Slideshow
Project-Based Learning: Start Your Own Restaurant or Food Truck! A Hands-On, Real-World Learning Experience for Your Students! Ready to bring creativity, teamwork, and business skills to your classroom? This Project-Based Learning Activity allows students to design and open their very own restaurant or food truck. From the ground up, they will work through every step of the process, culminating in a "grand opening" event at school! What’s Included:Business Planning: Students will explore th
3rd - 6th
Family Consumer Sciences, Math
Candy Bar Invention - CPS project
These documents are designed to support learning and creativity in a candy bar invention unit. The pages guide students through the process of narrowing down key elements for their candy bar creation, including ingredients, flavors, and special features. Additionally, they help students plan the packaging and wrapper design, ensuring that each candy bar concept is well thought out and visually appealing.
2nd - 5th
Creative Writing, Engineering
Restaurant Cooking Project
This is a project based learning assignment in which students plan, budget, shop for and prepare a meal for the class. Students love it and it provides great cross-curricular connections as they need to use skills from a variety of areas, all while improving their own practical life skills. A reflection is included at the end to be completed after the students have completed the project and event day.
4th - 10th
Measurement
Coral Reefs Lesson Plan
PROJECT DESCRIPTION Students learn how climate change and pollution are affecting the world’s coral reefs, and what scientsts are doing to help save these diverse ecosystems. Students learn the body parts of a coral and build their own candy coral reef. Students also learn about marine biologist Ken Nedimyer, who is globally recognized as a father of reef restoration, and has been creating strategies and techniques to rebuild coral reefs around the world. 60 min | Ages 5-10 PROJECTS Make Candy
K - 3rd
Environment, Science
CCSS, NGSS
RI.K.1
, RI.K.2
, RI.K.3
+18
Nutrition Poster Prompt Cards
Have students do a quick group inquiry project before starting a nutrition unit! This is a fun group work project!
6th - 12th
Physical Education
STEAM Thanksgiving Churning Butter Science Experiment-GATE Standards based
Shake, Shake, Shake! Shake that Butter! Thanksgiving Butter Burning Science Experiment STEAM project based GATE activity. This is the perfect project to have a cooking Science experiment with your students during the Fall Season. Contains:Teacher Directions, Website Resource Page, Standards, Materials List, Student Planning Sheet-Life Long Ago, Answer Key, Student Reflection Sheet(In half-page to save copies!), Parent letter Requesting supplies. (in thirds to save paper/copies!) You might like
K - 5th
Science
NGSS
5-PS1-3
, 5-PS1-4
, 5-PS1-2
+1
Gingerbread Men Christmas Baking Fun
This activity incorporates mathematics in the form of measuring, following instructions and problem solving. Easy-to-follow recipe encourages hands on learning.
Not Specific
Also included in: Printables for Christmas
Bread Study Visual Recipes
Cooking in the Classroom is a great way to work on multiple skills! Reading, Math, Problem solving, and independence. This cookbook includes 5 visual recipes for students to follow along with. This is great resource to pair with the creative curriculum bread study.
PreK - K
English Language Arts, Math
Also included in: Bread Study
Instant Pudding - Animated Step-by-Step Recipe - Regular
This animated PowerPoint recipe is part of an ongoing series of recipes, crafts, poems, songs and science projects designed to serve as a vehicle for reinforcing literacy in the classroom. Although content was originally designed to capitalize on interactive whiteboard technology, the files work beautifully with the free Microsoft PowerPoint app for the iPad and iphone. Now the Animated Step-by-Steps® can be more easily used in activity centers. Visit the Animated Step-by-Steps® blog (www.anima
PreK - 2nd
Cooking in the Children's House-Honeybees
Try our recipe for Honeybees--a simple and deliciously wholesome treat to make with young children. Include this project in your insect or springtime activities and create a real buzz!
PreK - 3rd
Environment, General Science
Cooking Up Stories
This is an enrichment unit designed for grades 1-4. It includes quality read aloud suggestions with cooking and craft projects that correlate with the literature. Child favorites are created; cupcakes, tacos, pizza, cookies, popcorn balls, and sandwiches. Printable recipe cards are included.
1st - 4th
Reading
Recipe Card Printable
Use these recipe cards in a literacy center, as an independent, self chosen activity, and/or as part of a class project. This printable is primarily a writing resource but can encompass measurement, pre-reading, pre-writing, family engagement, and reading.
PreK - 1st
Measurement, Writing
CCSS
W.K.2
, CCRA.W.2
, CCRA.L.3
No-Bake Cooking Challenge (Editable)
Looking for a fun and engaging end-of-year or back-to-school activity? This is the perfect community builder that will allow students to work, be creative, and problem-solve in a small group. With the no-bake cooking challenge, students will be given a list of ingredients and will have one day to plan and brainstorm a recipe and a performance. They will have another day to cook, present, and do taste tests. Students will earn awards for different categories. Three challenges are included: brea
Not Specific
Nutrition Assignment- PE at Home
This is an assignment students can do at home or at school. I usually pre-teach micro and macro nutrients before I assign this assignment, but it can also be used as an inquiry project.
8th - 12th
Physical Education
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