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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Using a variety of vegetables in baking. Learning about the different substitutes that can be used for many ingredients. Learning to understand the science behind the ingredients and extending this knowledge.

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How did the context of baking a cake help engage your students in science and maths learning? It was a great example of teaching children about associative mathematics using a practical example.

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“The Unit was interactive, challenging and great to use on line. I am looking forward to also using it in the class now that we have returned, as many children didn't have scales at home and couldn't do it successfully.”

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Posted 3 years ago

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? They want to do more experiments and baking

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How did the context of baking a cake help engage your students in science and maths learning? They loved the hands on stuff.

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“The kit was good and got them thinking about veggies being more than just food they didn't want to eat on their plate. The only problem we had was because of covid the time with that and everything else we didn't really do it justice.”

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Posted 3 years ago

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? baking, cooking,

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How did the context of baking a cake help engage your students in science and maths learning? good fraction and adding knowledge

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“Kit was great very well stocked with everything we needed to create vege cake. Sadly, with the auckland lock down we haven't yet had the chance to give the kit a go.”

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Posted 3 years ago

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Have lessons similar to this type of activity where the students can experiment cooking or baking with different ingredients that they have never tried before.

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How did the context of baking a cake help engage your students in science and maths learning? The students were able to use their skills in accurately measuring the ingredients. They have learnt the science behind baking and why the accurate measurement of ingredients is required.

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“They students have tried baking with ingredients that they have never thought of. A lot of wondering was done by the students in terms of how it will taste like. Some had a good experience and had enjoyed the experiment.”

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Posted 3 years ago

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? We looked at creating recipes using our own ingredients, we did healthy art using pumpkin portraits and fruit or veg features. Smoothies is something we are looking at doing

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How did the context of baking a cake help engage your students in science and maths learning? It was a cool kit to use for measurement. We had covered measurement earlier in the year so this was like an assessment of what they had learned. The science component was interesting as we had been looking at acids and bases as well as mixing things to g

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“This was an easy kit to use and brought a lot of laughter to the classroom. I used it as a reading group task where they made different cakes each and shared them with the class. The class had to guess the ingredients. It allowed for lots of discussion around substituting ingredients. It went well with out healthy eating unit.”

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Posted 3 years ago

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Students learnt many things through this kit - they learnt to try new things, to evaluate the success or not and to accept that things don't always work as we expect. They could see the importance of those Maths skills, measurement, proportions etc.

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How did the context of baking a cake help engage your students in science and maths learning? They had to work out using scales to measure. They learnt about proportions.

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“This kit was highly engaging for senior students (Year 7&8). Let's face it, most kids love doing stuff in Science. Through making the cake, students questioned and made discoveries, they negotiated and learnt skills of working together. It does require some organisation but was well worth the effort. Students surprised themselves and me.”

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Posted 3 years ago

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? We are now finishing the term with a Kitchen Science unit. The students have an allocated day where they pretend they are a teacher sharing the expt idea- get the students to make an hypothesis and then demonstrate the expt.

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How did the context of baking a cake help engage your students in science and maths learning? The students loved the science experiments. Many students researched other expts and shared them with the class.

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“Making Veggie cakes Chemical reactions Ingredients: Soya sauce Orange juice Apple juice Honey Lime juice Vinegar We added baking soda to each of the ingredients. We found the soya sauce and orange juice, changed colour and fizzed a little bit. The baking soda floated on top of the runny honey. Lime juice and vinegar bubbled lots. The apple juice bubbled a tiny bit. The vinegar had the biggest reaction, the honey had no reaction, it floated on the top. Recipe Review Beetroot cake - 14/20, 15/20, 17/20, 18/20, 20/20, What went right? It was really good because it was cooked perfectly. It was light and fluffy. Liked beetroot. Nice colour. Apple cake - 11/20, 10/20, 13/20, 14/20, 19/20, 20/20 What went right? Tasted good. Reminded Ryan of Apple crumble. It was nice and soft, fluffy with a bit of juice at the bottom. Nice, soft and moist. What went wrong? Didn’t like the taste, too sweet. Bit soggy on the bottom. Chickpea cake - 13/20, 15/20,20/20 What went right? NIcely cooked. Didn’t crumble. Emma - said taste was ok but not perfect. Ashton and C.J. liked the taste. Khole did not like the taste. Corn cake/muffin - 12/20, 16/20, 15/20, 19/20, 20/20 What went right? Tasted really really good. (Bel) Tasted delicious (Kyan) What went wrong? Mrs Sheridan burnt the bottom of them because they cooked faster than the others. In conclusion - The students liked the size of the cakes - not too big. We learnt that veges aren’t disgusting in a cake. We learnt to make cakes using vegetables as a substitute for eggs and less sugar. We also learnt that next time we would try use baking soda to make the cakes rise.”

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Posted 3 years ago

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? This has introduced the whole STEM process which we are now applying to designing games for the school to play.

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How did the context of baking a cake help engage your students in science and maths learning? There was a lot of discussion about what happens when substituting ingredients and what would happen with the resulting size of the cupcakes. We also had some great thinking about how to figure out how much of each ingredient we would need for a different

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“This was an excellent and engaging way to introduce the process of imagining and refining a basic concept. The children were also introduced to types of food they hadn't previously encountered.”

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Posted 3 years ago

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