I started with a basic plan for what do I want the students to learn. How will I know when they have learned it? What things can I do to enrich the activities? What things will my students be able to do when they are done with the enrichment days? What final product will they create to show they have acquired some basic skills during the unit? Once I had some answers to these questions, it all just started to come together. This is what the plan looked like when I had put all the pieces in place.
Day 1: September 6th, 2013
8:45 – 9:45 Introduction to Enrichment Days,
Pass Out
Purple Folders~ Decorate Folders with Cupcake Art & Names
9:45 – 10:45: Literature: Froggy Bakes a Cake ~ Froggy makes a cake by himself. He uses the basic ingredients that most cakes are made from. This lower level story is fun and engaging. It also helps students recognize the basic ingregients that are used to make cakes.
Books that help us bake cakes: Introduce
the 10 Recipe Books about Cupcakes
Reading Skills: Read a Basic Recipe
Record: Chocolate
Cake Recipe in Purple Folder
Record:
Vanilla Cake Recipe in Purple Folder
Group
Venn diagram comparison Recipe Book and Froggy Bakes a Cake
10:45 – 11:45 Comparison Activity: Box Cupcakes (Chocolate with vanilla frosting) & Bakery Cupcakes (Simply Cupcakes): Double
Bubble Map & Opinion Paper
11:15 – 12:15 Cooking Safety: Cooking Safety Rules Chart
Cooking Safety: Tools Bakers Use
Video Trailer: The Bake Shop Ghost
1:00 – 2:00 Measurement
Practice: How many tsps? tbsps? Cups? Activity
2:00 – 3:00 Science Experiment: (Conduction, Convection, Radiation) Cake Baking in an Easy Bake
Oven/Toaster Oven/Baby Cakes Cupcake Maker
3:00 – 3:30 Video: Cupcake Wars
Introduce Cupcake Wars Letter to Parents &
Rubric for Cupcake Project
Day 2: September 13th, 2013
8:45 – 9:45 Literature: Bake Shop Ghost Reading and Design a Cake Activity/ Writing ~ Finish the Book
9:45 – 10:45 Animoto: Cupcakes Video
Record: Making
Frosting ~ Recipes into Notebooks
Introduction to Frosting Tips &
Designs (Article Review) – Record in
Notebook
10:45 – 11:45 Making & Baking Cupcakes & Frosting
Tips Activity
11:45 – 12:15 Social Studies Lesson on Resources: Natural, Human, Capital, &
Entrepreneurship
Create Questions to Ask the Guest Speaker that have to do with the three resources and entrepreneurship
1:00 – 2:00 Guest Speaker: Bakery Owner ~ Wendy Wilson from
Wilson’s Bakery
2:00 – 3:00 Decorating Practice & Cupcake Decorating
3:00 -3:30 Clean Up & Ticket out the door writing assignment – In Notebook
Day 3: September 20th, 2013
8:45 – 9:45 Baking Cupcakes and Making Frosting – Preparing
for the day
9:30– 10:15 Tour of School Cafeteria to experience a large
kitchen and prep area.
Interview with Ms. Ross the cafeteria manager.
Edmodo question posted to forum.
10:15 – 10:45 Have your Cake and Eat it to Inferring Activity (Partner Activity-
Creativity Activity)
10:45 – 11:15 Recipes for Chocolates
Exploring the Website for The
Secret Chocolatier –
Making Chocolates & Decorations
for Desserts – Record in Folder
Preparing for Guest Speaker:
Questions
11:15 – 12:15 Looking
through Cupcake Books, Creating your Advertisement for Cupcakery – On Manila
Paper
1:00 – 2:00 Guest Speaker: Bakery Owner ~ Cheryl ~
Smallcakes
2:00 – 3:00 Making
Chocolate Designs & Decorations, Decorating Cupcakes
3:00 -3:30 Writing
Assignment: Compare & Contrast Smallcakes & Wilson’s Bakery
Day 4: September 27th, 2013
8:45 – 9:45 Displays for the Cupcake Wars – Advertisement,
Recipe, Paragraph
9:45 – 10:15 Chromatopography Display
10:15 – 11:00 Writing
Assignment: Narrative/Informational on Cupcake Experience – Drafting Paper
11:00-– 11:45 LEAP
Time Activities: Math Games Bakery Style
11:45 – 12:15 Art Assignment: Cupcake Art – Manila
Paper
1:00 – 2:00 Guest Speaker: Bakery Owner ~ Simply Cupcakes ~ Ms. June
2:00 – 2:15 Cupcake War Guest Judges: Dr. Brantley, Ms.
Conner, Mrs. Kendrick, Mrs. Jan Jacobsen
2:15 – 2:30 Celebration Time: Sharing our cupcakes with the other third grade classes
2:30 – 3:30 Who sent the Cake? Science Mystery. Scientific Method & Experiment
