Cooking to Learn

School:: Palmetto Elementary
Subject:: Special Needs Students
Teacher:: Nancy Rojas
: Sheila Snyder, Jennifer Rader
Students Impacted:: 33
Grade:: 4
Date:: July 14, 2016

Investor

Thank you to the following investor for funding this grant.

Suncoast Credit Union - $450.00

Impact to My Classroom

# of Students Impacted: 39

We are very grateful that our grant Cooking to Learn was fulfilled. The grant was split between three special needs classes and impacted 39 learners.

This year we have observed how cooking in class has encouraged students to explore a variety of different foods, as well as promote positive social skills. While preparing the different recipes, students learned to cooperate, share and work together in both large and small groups. Cooking also enhanced our classroom academics. Each time the kids weighed, measured, sorted or counted they were working on their math skills. Observing changes in the food during the cooking process and using their senses touched upon some of our science standards. Gross and Fine motor skills were practiced as well. Many of the recipes had them chopping, rolling, mashing, mixing or squeezing.

Cooking has become a favorite classroom activity for many of the students because it is fun. Learning to cook is a skill that can help the students become more independent later on in life. It also builds positive classroom memories as well as teaching them what they learn in class can be used outside the classroom in their daily lives.

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Pumpkin Pie

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Fruit Parfait

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Bird nests

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Original Grant Overview

Goal

The goal of this project is to use cooking as an opportunity to integrate math, science, reading, and social skills into the special needs classrooms.

What will be done with my students

Each month the students will have the opportunity to use cooking as a hands-on learning experience. All recipes chosen will complement our Unique modified curriculum monthly learning targets. Our unit on “Plants We Eat” is designed around a Life Science study of plants and will focus on cooking vegetables, grocery shopping and menu reading. Our history unit focuses on life long ago and will give the students the opportunity to make such things as homemade corn bread and butter the way it was made in Colonial America. Our holidays around the world unit highlights preparing seasonal cultural favorites such as pumpkin pie, potato latkes and holiday cookies. Throughout the year the students will prepare 10 different recipes as well as write a recipe review to rate for taste, difficulty of preparing, and nutritional value of all projects.

Benefits to my students

Teaching cooking skills to students with special needs is an opportunity to not only increase independence but to use basic academic skills in a functional way. Students learn better in the context of real life situations than by listening to lectures or filling in worksheets. This project can enhance skills such as math, science, reading, problem solving as well as communication. If funded, this project will be available for 3 classrooms of students in grades 3-5 for a total of 33 special needs students.

Budget Narrative

I would like to be able to purchase supplies needed to prepare one recipe per month for 10 months to go along with our monthly unit topics. The supplies purchased would be used by 3 teachers and 33 students.

Items

#	Item	Cost
1	Cooking supplies teacher 1 (10 recipes)	$150.00
2	Cooking suplies teacher 2 (10 recipes)	$150.00
3	Cooking supplies teacher 3 (10 recipes)	$150.00
	Total:	$450.00

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Cooking to Learn

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