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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? As a teacher of year 7&8 we were fortunate to utilise technology room facilities but it gets you thinking about what opportunities there are for cooking in the classroom. We will prep some items for school camp in the new year (apples from the orchard int

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How did the context of baking a cake help engage your students in science and maths learning? Great context for learning in a real life situation. We got talking about algebra and substitution, grams and accuracy. We had done a procedural writing focus earlier in the year so the recipe writing and reviewing was a great chance to see what they coul

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“This kit was awesome and enabled a lot of practical activity. The digital scales were awesome for a small group measuremt practice activity in class adn to learn to be accurate. Kids love to cook adn this sparked interest in learning about Science, Maths and made motivation for writing. Students suprised themselves with the use of chickpeas and beetroot. Some cakes were still very tasty despite the reduction of sugar and that was a nice real life learning suprise. Some of course were not so tasty!”

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Posted 3 years ago

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? More experimentation and testing out other ingredients

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How did the context of baking a cake help engage your students in science and maths learning? They loved the hands on experience and wanted to give it another go!

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“The kids enjoyed this kit and realising that they could substitute veggies into their baking. They also found out a lot about exact measurements . It was great to look into the nutritional values of food too and how the chemical reactions occur.”

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Posted 3 years ago

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? There were great links to maths and talking about 'fair testing' which could be further explored.

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How did the context of baking a cake help engage your students in science and maths learning? The children found the science behind making bubbles very interesting, and the supporting videos and resources were great.

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“This kit was great, it was very practical and the thinking and re-thinking that was required was excellent. The children loved making their cakes and told me it tasted delicious even though it didn't really look very appetising. I would have liked to spend more time on testing different variables, but I hadn't allowed enough time. It also fitted in well with the veges we had grown in our school vege garden. The kit involved excellent links to maths, science and literacy.”

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Posted 3 years ago

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? More cooking might be good to embed the math.

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How did the context of baking a cake help engage your students in science and maths learning? Students could not see the science in it until I pointed it out. Maths was great for this unit.

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“Students liked this unit”

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Posted 3 years ago

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Interested in changing variables.

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How did the context of baking a cake help engage your students in science and maths learning? Great for measuring ingredient and observing.

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“A fun activity for a group, lots of experimenting and students enjoyed it. Going any further was hindered by lockdown in Auckland unfortunately. Well done team for another great kit.”

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Posted 3 years ago

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Looking into other ways they can substitute sugar with fruit and veggies in other baking recipes, as well as other types of recipes.

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How did the context of baking a cake help engage your students in science and maths learning? It really engaged them as they could see the link between the two curriculum areas.

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“My students really enjoyed all of the different experiments that we did, especially when altering the original cake mix.”

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Posted 3 years ago

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Further work with chemical reactions, now they have a basic understanding of the concept. More observations - this kit taught the students that they need to look for certain things eg. bubbles because it meant... Having a control, trialling and then mak

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How did the context of baking a cake help engage your students in science and maths learning? It was great to look at chemical reactions before and also learn about the Malliard Reaction so they were able to understand some of the changes that the cake had made when baked. By substituting 80g of the cake with veggies was a good challenge and a lot

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“I absolutely love this kit! The whole idea of the 60g x 4 was a bit to get our heads around...can you really make a cake?! It was a terrific way to introduce chemistry to the students. The observations to find the bubbles in the cake encouraged the children to stop, look and think about the chemical reaction that had taken place. I will definitely do this again!”

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Posted 3 years ago

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Exploring other concepts that can be presented as an investigation...e.g soils (what happens if...'x' is added) water (what happens if 'x' is added)

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How did the context of baking a cake help engage your students in science and maths learning? Fractions, measurement, cooking is a science...chemistry...what happens if...

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“The students absolutely loved the lessons, experimentation and kitchen science.”

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Posted 3 years ago

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