Ready to cook up some fun? Yes, we’ll learn something along the way. Try this free baking and cooking unit study!
“Baking and Cooking: A Delicious Unit Study” by Paula J. Miller originally appeared in Home School Enrichment Magazine. The unit study is in two parts, the first covering Bible study, math, and science. The second part covers history/geography, vocabulary, writing, and reading. Of course, you can cook through both parts!
Here is what’s inside:
- Bible reading and memorizing.
- Converting measurements.
- An investigation into how yeast and sugar work together.
- Exploring acids and bases.
- Making a bag explode.
- Finding out what people of different times ate.
- Exploring the role geography plays in determining what people eat.
- Writing a story.
- Making a cookbook.
- A cooking reading list.
- A cookie recipe.
Easily adaptable, this baking and cooking unit study is a great one to have on hand for teaching several life skills … and it is just plain fun!
Update: This resource is no longer available, so we are linking to an archived version.
Free Resource
- “Baking and Cooking: A Delicious Unit Study, Part I”
- “Baking and Cooking: A Delicious Unit Study, Part II”
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