Pizza Celebration

Lesson:

10/10

Eighth Grade Kitchen Rotation

Standards Aligned:

Yes

Pizza Celebration

Tags:

Community

Place of Learning:

Kitchen Classroom

Duration:

90 minutes

Grade Level:

6 – 8

Contributor

ESY Berkeley Teaching Staff
Edible Schoolyard Project
Berkeley, CA

Materials

Pizza Sauce recipe
Pizza Dough recipe
Lemonade recipe

For the Wood-Fired Oven

Oven peels
Wire brush
2 damp towels
For the Handwashing Station
Bucket of warm soapy water
Bucket of warm rinsing water
2 towels

For the Pizza Building Station

2 tables
2 rags
2 tablecloths
6 wooden pizza peels
2 flour bowls
toppings

For the Pizza Building Station Side Table

Table cloth
Cleaning rag
Really big butcher block
Pizza cutter
Trays

For the Eating Station

Cups
Napkins
Dirty dishes basin
Compost basin

Ingredients for the Pizza Dough

Pizza flour
Wheat flour
Yeast
Salt
Sugar
Olive oil

Ingredients for the Toppings

An assortment of herbs, green garlic, and spring onions
Chard, kale, and spinach
Olives
Olive oil
Fresh garden ingredients

Ingredients for the Pizza Building Station

Pizza sauce
Grated cheese
Toppings

Ingredients for the Lemonade

Lemons
Sugar or honey
Water

For the Grain Grinding Station

Grain grinding bike
3 mortars and pestles
3 mixing bowls
Wheat berries
Canvas bags for threshing
Whole, dried wheat bushels for threshing
Wooden winnowing bowls

Tools for the Toppings Station

Chef’s knives
Cast-iron skillet
Cutting boards
Strainers

Tools for the Dough Station

1 large metal mixing bowl
1 plastic 4-cup measuring cup
2 sets measuring spoons
1 plastic measuring beaker
3 bench scrapers
1 metal one cup measure
1 small metal whisk
2-3 half sheet pans
Plastic wrap
1 plastic dough scraper
1 wooden spoon

Equipment

Wood-fired Oven or Oven

before you begin

Collect all materials and build a fire in the wood-fired oven (it takes about 90 minutes to fully warm the ESY oven).
Make the Pizza Sauce.
Make Pizza Dough for the first class.
Collect all materials and set up the Pizza Building Station and Pizza Building Station Side Table.
Collect all materials and set up the Eating Station.
Collect all materials and set up the Dough Station.
Collect all materials and set up the Grain Grinding Station.
Collect all materials and set up the Lemonade Station.
Collect all materials and set up the Toppings Station.

Procedure Steps:

FULL GROUP, 7-12 MINUTES

AT THE OPENING CIRCLE

Use the word “celebrate” in a sentence: “We are excited to celebrate the culmination of your three years in the Edible Schoolyard Program today!”

Welcome students and explain that today they will work together to celebrate their last day in the Edible Schoolyard with pizza and lemonade.
Explain that today’s four working groups are all devoted to tasks to prepare for eating pizza, and that working groups will rotate through the Pizza Building Station where, in teams of two, students will have the opportunity to form their pizza dough and build it with sauce, cheese and toppings.
Go over today’s jobs and divide students into four working groups, one group for each job. Today’s jobs are:
- Dough: Students “pay it forward” by making dough in the kitchen classroom for later classes.
- Grain grinding: Students use a variety of methods to grind wheat to use in the pizza dough.
- Lemonade: Students make lemonade at the outdoor kitchen and keep the Eating Station supplied with it.
- Toppings: Students harvest crops from the garden, wash them, and prep them for use at the Pizza Building Station.

FULL GROUP, 80 MINUTES

IN THE FIELD

Pizza Work Rotation: Each group rotates through the Pizza Building Station as the other groups work in the kitchen classroom, outdoor kitchen and garden.

The Dough group starts at the Pizza Building Station, where in groups of two they will assemble a pizza.
When the first group finishes baking their pizzas, they may sit down at the Eating Station to eat.
When the bell rings, the next group proceeds to the Hand Washing Station and then to the Pizza Building Station.
It will take a total of 80 minutes to rotate all groups through the Pizza Building Station and Pizza Eating Station.
After each group’s Pizza Work Rotation is complete, students may relax in the garden or visit the chickens.

AT THE PIZZA BUILDING STATION

Make and Eat Pizza

Demonstrate how to pull the dough on a pizza peel and add toppings, making sure to emphasize using enough flour to ensure adequate “scootch” (the dough’s ability to move independent of the peel, so that it will slide off into the oven).
Give a ball of dough to each team of two students and have them assemble their pizza.
Bake each pizza in the wood-fired oven.
When pizzas are done, students proceed to the Eating Station, eat their pizza, and drink lemonade.

FULL GROUP, 10 MINUTES

AT THE CLOSING CIRCLE

Thank students for helping make the pizza celebration a success.
Ask students to participate in one final Whip Around and share their favorite experience in the garden over their three years in middle school.

Download Recipes:

Pizza Sauce

Pizza Dough

Lemonde

Academic Standards

Common Core State Standards

English Language Arts and Literacy, Grade 8

RST.8.3

Follow precisely a multistep procedure when carrying out experiments, taking measurements, or performing technical tasks.

SL.8.1

Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher- led) with diverse partners on grade 8 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.

SL.8.4

Present claims and findings, emphasizing salient points in a focused, coherent manner with relevant evidence, sound valid reasoning, and well-chosen details; use appropriate eye contact, adequate volume, and clear pronunciation.

Edible Schoolyard Standards

In the Kitchen Classroom, Grade 8

Tools

1.01

Choose the right tool for each job at the ESY Cooking Station, anticipate steps of the recipe, and take initiative to cook independently.

Techniques

2.05

Demonstrate mastery of a wide variety of cooking techniques, reliably choose the right technique for each job, and compare and contrast technique differences in conversation.

The Edible Schoolyard Program

Program

1.0

Students work with each other and teachers to develop community and personal stewardship, along with skills that will help them navigate different situations throughout their lives.

Contributors:

All lessons at the Edible Schoolyard Berkeley are developed in collaboration with the teachers and staff of the Edible Schoolyard and Martin Luther King, Jr. Middle School.