Cooking to Learn

School:: Palmetto Elementary
Subject:: Special Needs Students
Teacher:: Nancy Rojas
: Sheila Snyder, Jen Rader
Students Impacted:: 33
Grade:: 4
Date:: July 17, 2017

Investor

Thank you to the following investor for funding this grant.

Ray Sutton McGehee Foundation - $450.00

Impact to My Classroom

# of Students Impacted: 47

Thank you so much for funding our grant Cooking to Learn. We had so much fun cooking and sampling what we made this year. The grant was split between 4 different teachers and impacted 47 students. Several times a month students were given the opportunity to help prepare different recipes that went along with our Unique curriculum units. Some favorite recipes were dirt cups made with pudding and whipped cream, pumpkin pie and green eggs and ham. The recipe’s gave the student’s the opportunity to integrate fractions, measurement, science and problem solving in a fun and meaningful way. The recipe’s also taught important independent functioning skills such as working together as a team as well as teaching the students that what they learn in class can be used outside the classroom in their daily lives. Cooking in class has become the favorite activity for all the students. Many have told us that they go home and try and prepare the same recipes at home with their families.

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Making dirt cups

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Christian loves salad

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Holiday Gingerbread Houses

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kneading bread in a bag

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Yummy healthy smoothies

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Jeanesa loves green eggs and ham.

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 classroom.

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 classroom 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.

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#	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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