Lesson:
3/3
Final Project: Recipes of Meaning
Place of Learning:
Duration:
3 – 6 Hours
Grade Level:
Summary:
As a final project, you will be demonstrating your improved kitchen abilities by making a recipe of your choice and documenting your cooking process. This is an opportunity to practice what you’ve learned by making a dish that is meaningful for you. At the end of this project you will have cooked a recipe that is important to you and documented your work, including a description, a recipe, a skill demonstration video OR a photo essay, and a written reflection OR a recorded reflection.
Student Learning Goals & Objectives:
- Make choices in the ingredients of their recipes and reflect on those selections.
- Practice reflective thinking and responding.
- Identify ingredients that are meaningful to them and use persuasive language to make a claim as to why they chose them.
- Choose two ingredients that are important to them and create or select a recipe.
- Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information through the selection, organization, and analysis of relevant content.
- Students will document their cooking processes and demonstrate that they have practiced skills presented throughout the curriculum.
- Track their progress towards a goal.
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Teaching Notes:
- If students are completing this lesson as part of the kitchen curriculum, Cooking with Curiosity: Challenging Perfection with Reflection this lesson is 4.3, the third lesson and final project of Unit 4.
- For sections that instruct students to READ, you can record yourself reading aloud and send it to students. Direct them to read along with the recording. This is a helpful strategy for differentiating learning that supports all students, especially English Language Learners.
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