Standards:

 

ESL Standards:

Goal 1: To use English to communicate in all social settings

            Standard 1: Students will use English to participate in social interaction

            Standard 2: Interact in, through, and with spoken and written English for personal expression and enjoyment

Goal 2: To use English to achieve academically in all content areas

            Standard 1: Use English to interact in the classroom

 

Math Standards:

2.1.3B—“Use whole numbers and fractions to represent quantities”

2.2.3A—“Apply addition and subtraction in everyday situations using concrete objects”

 

Lesson Objectives:

Students will be able to:

a)      Identify the names of different cooking equipment (tablespoon, cup, teaspoon, ½ cup, etc.)

b)      Use the previously learned knowledge of fractions to pick out the different amounts of cups (1 cup, ½ cup, ¾ cup, ¼ cup)

c)      Follow the directions in a recipe to make their own batch of chocolate chip cookies

d)      Complete problems with fractions and measuring equipment

e)      Find their own recipe and orally show the instruments and amounts needed to use the recipe

 

Materials:

∙Posters of a large liquid measuring cup and the recipe

∙Cooking equipment (mixing bowl, spoon, measuring cups, spatula)

∙Food ingredients

∙Recipe

∙Toaster oven or conventional oven

∙Costume, if desired (chef’s hat, apron, moustache)

 

Anticipatory Set:

            The teacher, dressed as a famous French chef, knocks and opens the classroom door.  S/he comes in, singing a song or saying “Bonjour!”, decked out in their costume and covered in flour.  They explain that the real class teacher is out today and they will be teaching the class.  Since they do not know much about anything else besides cooking, that is what they will be teaching the class.

 

Procedure:

 

I. Explain that before you can bake any famous cookies, need to know that the equipment. 

II. Go through the names of the cooking equipment (teaspoon, tablespoon, cup), having the class repeat it back to you.

III. Explain that since the class already knows fractions, you just want to make sure they know to apply the fractions on the giant poster of the liquid measuring cup.

IV. Say that a particular recipe calls for ¼ cup of milk.  Ask for a volunteer to go to the poster and color in ¼ cup of milk with the white chalk.  Repeat this with other problems, until the whole cup is full.

V. Next, bring out the poster of the “World Famous Chocolate Chip Cookies”.  Going through each ingredient one step at a time (have them covered up until they get to each one), have volunteers come up, measure out the ingredients, and place them in the mixing bowl.   Continue until the recipe is completed, and have someone mix it up.

VI. Bake the cookies!

 

Review:

            Pass out the different measuring equipment to the class. Name one of the pieces of equipment, and have the student with that equipment hold it up, show the class, and have the whole class repeat the name of the equipment.

            Extended Activity:  Give a problem, such as “If I want to put ¾ cup of milk and ¼ cup of milk together, which piece of equipment should I use?”.  Allow the students to think about the problem, and then the piece that should be used can be held up by the student who has it.

 

Assessment:

            The class will complete a worksheet on fraction measurements and cooking equipment.

 

Assignment:

            Have each of the students go home and find a recipe of their choice.  Bringing it in the next day, they can be assessed either in small groups or one-on-one with the teacher by showing the recipe and holding up the correct pieces of equipment to make it.  

 

Closure:

            Encourage the students to cook something with their parents or friends, applying the knowledge they have learned today.