Learning experience

This activity will start with the teacher reading a story about cookies to the children to raise questions, spark interests, build connections and ask questions as they listen to the story and have discussions after the story is read. The teacher will then talk to the children by showing them the diagram of cookies and explaining to them what each ingredient does and what the cookie will look like with each ingredient used. The teacher will let the children discuss in groups what ingredients they would like and how much of each they will use. The teacher will assign roles to each child and get them to hand out the materials to each group.

Introduction story

Cookie Diagram

The children as they are doing the activity are talking with their peers discussing what they are going to add in their recipe, and making connections based on what they saw on the chart of cookies and what they heard in the story as they are making the cookies. The children will also make connections based on their past experiences seeing their parents in the kitchen or make connections to bakers who make desserts such as cookies as their job. The children are provided with an apron and a chef hat and the children may engage in role-play as they are making cookies and act like a baker or their parents that they see cooking. The teacher should be going around asking the children questions such as “what do you think will happen if..”, making observations on the children’s engagement with the activity and adding new vocabulary words such as “temperature”, “cups” and “capacity”. The children as they are exploring with the materials may start to answer the questions they had before the activity as well as raising more questions such as “Can two cups of sugar fit in this bowl?” as they use the cups and work with the ingredients. The children will then create a hypothesis based on what they think will happen to their cookies once they bake them and also write or draw the ingredients they will be using in their recipe.

Children measuring 

Discussing ideas

Once the cookies are baked the children will then make observations on what the cookie looks like, feels like, and tastes like as the interact with the cookies they made. The children will then after they make their observations draw what their cookie looks like and write what it feels and tastes like, using the paper and markers provided for them. Once they explore with their cookies the children can look at their peer’s cookies and make observations as well seeing how their cookies are different from the ones they made. The children after exploring will go to the carpet and have discussions reflecting on the cookies that they made and their experience making the cookies. The teacher will make a bar graph with the children to see what was the texture of the cookie (soft, hard, crunchy, chewy). The children during the discussion can make conclusions to their activity on what they liked and what they would change to make their recipe better the next time they revisit the activity.

Observing cookies

Bar graph