Flat Harry has lots of friends who make delicious food, so every once in a while they have a big potluck. One Tuesday night, Harry and all of his 3-dimensional friends each made a dish and met together in his friend, Shefa's, dorm room in Denman Hall. All of the foods were "warm and fuzzy" with fresh baked chocolate chip cookies, steaming potato soup, enchiladas, casserole, and chili. It was the perfect menu of foods that make you feel cozy and full.
Harry helped his friend Julia make a special recipe of bread pudding using Krispy Kreme donuts that were left over from a fundraising sale. Julia and Harry chopped up the donuts, added milk, eggs, and cinnamon, and then baked the sweet dessert for thirty minutes. Everyone loved it!
Harry did a great job cooking the Krispy Kreme pudding!
Harry also helped stir the chili for Shefa.
Harry loves eating raw cookie dough, but he gets angry if anyone else tries to share!
A great app to use while cooking, especially with children, is Nicolas' Garden. This app works on iPhones and iPads and provides an easy-to-understand list of ingredients and utensils needed to cook many different dishes as well as a step-by-step recipe to help children cook.
This app is free and very simple to use. The design is child-friendly with larger text and areas check off ingredients that are used as they are added to the dish. The search function is straightforward and the content has been reviewed and approved for students.
This app is a great connection to talking about chemical changes that happen while cooking. The class can find a recipe that would require a chemical change like baking a cake and find a recipe where there is only a physical change like cutting a vegetable.
Recipes and cooking can also be used as an approach to teaching fractions. Students may be assigned to find a recipe that uses fractions and find out how many ingredients they would need if they doubled or halved the recipe.
A note of caution for this app is that there is a lot of pages and connections to a "review" area for each recipe that is public information. As a solution, the teacher may want to only use the app for whole group instruction, or the teacher may turn off the wi-fi and posting ability once the students have the iPad.
Science 3rd grade : 2.) Identify physical and chemical changes of matter.
Math Fractions:
3rd grade - 13.) Understand a fraction 1/b as the quantity formed by 1 part when a whole is partitioned into b equal parts; understand a fraction a/b as the quantity formed by a parts and size 1/b. [3-NF1]
4th grade - 15.) Apply and extend previous understandings of multiplication to multiply a fraction by a whole number. [4-NF4]
5th grade - 14.) Apply and extend previous understandings of multiplication to multiply a fraction or whole number by a fraction. [5-NF4]
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