Some of the hands-on math activities we will be doing during summer school involve gardening and cooking. Below you may read some of the fun activities we will be cooking up. Students will apply math skills in real life experience that will include measurement, graphs, budgeting and fractions.
- Students will harvest available produce from the garden.
- The produce will be cleaned, weighed, and measured by the students. Weight, mass, and length will be converted from US to metric or metric to US. Groups will compare results.
- Students will use the information to develop word problems to assemble into a game.
- Students will be paired and spend 10-15 minutes researching recipes they would like to prepare using the produce collected.
- Partners will present their recipe and a vote will be taken.
- Using sale papers, students will prepare a budget and shopping list.
- Items will be purchase based on their list and we will cook tomorrow.
- Using the items purchased from the students’ shopping list, we will cook today.
- Students will cook and serve squash casserole.
- Students will cook and serve zucchini bread.
- Students will be divided into groups to inventory different areas of the garden including produce, plant growth, and available water.
- Students will return to the classroom to chart and graph their results.
- Students will compare these results with the results from Day 1.
- Students will make corn pudding.
- Make corn cakes.
- We will pop corn.
Paula Dean- Zucchini Bread
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