How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Students could further develop their measurement and quantities.

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy eating in your classroom?

How did the context of baking a cake help engage your students in science and maths learning? Students could make connection across a range of curricular areas.

How successful was this kit in promoting scientific thinking?

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“Excellent resource - everything included and instructions are very clear. This kit was great, it was very practical and the students enjoyed working together and tasting their creations.”

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Posted 3 years ago

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Other baking opportunities with variations.

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy eating in your classroom?

How did the context of baking a cake help engage your students in science and maths learning? Baking is enjoyable and skills needed for life.

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“Well resourced with a good selection. It took a bit to organise and figure out the logistics to complete it. I was able to tie it in with our science fair as a whole class example experiment. I'll try to do it again next year with a few of my own tweaks.”

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Posted 3 years ago

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Children wanted to keep trying different ideas. They were keen to see if aquafaba could come from other vegetables, like the liquid in the garden peas? They also wanted to try other scales and measuring different things.

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How did the context of baking a cake help engage your students in science and maths learning? We measured, compared, added, subtracted, multiplied. We found out the math and science really are everywhere.

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“This has been the best kit yet. I did not share the cake poster till after the children had researched what flour, fat, sugar and egg do in cake. We used the poster as our answer guide. I loved that the children had to find out what words like leavening meant. They then went on to notice bubbles in the school pool and said "Hey that is like carbonated water, we could catch those and use them as leavening!" The results were amazing and the pictures tell it all. Peas in a cake...not thank you. We saved this kit for the last week of term. It was perfect. Math, reading, writing, science, discussion... true integration.”

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Posted 3 years ago

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Students who were able explored this further during lockdown and it is something we hope to revisit next year.

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy eating in your classroom?

How did the context of baking a cake help engage your students in science and maths learning? Maths was used continually throughout the measuring, substituting process and scientific thinking was utilised when hypothesising the properties that each substitute ingredient would provide.

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“We were able to make a start on this kit and the children really enjoyed creating their adjusted recipes but lockdown meant we were unable to complete the kit. Still some really interesting conversations arose around substitute ingredients and the properties of food that were valuable for students.”

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Posted 3 years ago

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Exposing different vege for taste and different ways of eating them

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How did the context of baking a cake help engage your students in science and maths learning? Planning looks excellent

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“Sadly we didn’t get to make our vege cakes this year. It is in my planning for 2022”

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Posted 3 years ago

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? I would like to continue using this kit next year. Food Technology at its best!

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How did the context of baking a cake help engage your students in science and maths learning? Brilliant! Food always inspires 11 - 13 year olds!!

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“My class loved this kit! It stimulated a lot of independent and group research - at home and in the kitchen. Researching and testing different vegetables as replacement ingredients was thought provoking and discussed animatedly. One group decided to "mush the peas"and insert the pea mash in the centre of the cake. Their reasoning..... if someone didn't like peas, they could eat all the "good bits' around the outside. Their work at home and in the classroom transferred brilliantly into our first ever visit to the Food Technology room. Students learned a lot from their mistakes during the unit - students had "nailed"the use of the kitchen scales in the classroom, but at the cooking station, that knowledge disappeared . However, during their second cooking session, students were measuring each ingredient very carefully.... A great kit. Thank you!”

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Posted 3 years ago

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Innovation and creativity. Also, wleafd well into further study about healthy eating.

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy eating in your classroom?

How did the context of baking a cake help engage your students in science and maths learning? It's a practical way of engagement

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“This is a great project which allows students to access the world of healthy eating as well as sparking an interest in food science. He tino pai rawa atu tēnā!”

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Posted 3 years ago

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Continue to look at how to incorporate te reo Māori into cooking/baking lessons. I could easily use this unit again with some of the vegetables we grow in our school māra!

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy eating in your classroom?

How did the context of baking a cake help engage your students in science and maths learning? Through lots of predictions, observations and measurements, the students were highly engaged. Ensuring their substitutions equalled 80grams, and how we could use the scales to accurately measure the weight.

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“This was a great kit to use with our bubble students upon returning to school after lockdown. It was engaging because of the kai aspect, and the base recipe was easy to follow, and tasted great! The concept of including vegetables in a cake was foreign to most students and it was a great way to challenge preconceived ideas about taste. They loved using the recipe cards and review cards that were included in the kit, and the scales were a great resource to use, especially when checking out what in the classroom actually weighs 60grams. I appreciated the helpful tips that were easily accessible on the Make a Vegetable Cake page!”

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Posted 3 years ago

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