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Sustainability Lesson Clearinghouse
Little Red Hen Bakes Bread
Lesson Description:
Students will be able to:
Students will be able to:
- Explain the origins of bread and the bread baking process.
- Follow a step by step procedure for baking bread.
- Compare and contrast their bread baking experiences to that of the little red hen.
- Organize and record data using a graphic representation (venn diagram).
Lesson Type:
- Experiment
Sustainability Topic:
- Other
Time Needed:
3 hours
3 hours
Standards Addressed:
- Language arts standard 5: Use the general skills and strategies of the reading process.
- Benchmark # 2: Use meaning clues (e.g., story structure and repetitive phrases) to aid comprehension and make predictions about content (e.g., character’s behavior).
- Language arts standard 6: Use reading skills and strategies to understand and interpret a variety of literary text.
- Benchmark # 1: Use reading skills and strategies to understand a variety of familiar literary passages and texts (e.g., picture books, predictable books).
- Benchmark # 5: Relate stories to personal experiences.
- History standard 1: Understand family life now and in the past, and in various places long ago.
- Benchmark # 3: Knows cultural similarities and differences in food between families now and in the past.
- Science standard 12: Understand the nature of scientific inquiry.
- Benchmark # 2: Record information about the physical world (e.g., drawings, simple data charts).
- Technology standard 4: Understand the nature of technological design.
- Benchmark # 2: Know that tools (e.g., microwave) have specific functions, such as to do things more easily.
Materials Needed:
- "Little Red Hen Bakes Bread' venn diagram graphic organizer (included below)
- One large mixing bowl
- One spoon
- One measuring cup
- One measuring spoon
- One bread pan
- One hand towel
- ¼ Cup milk
- 5 Teaspoons sugar
- 1 Teaspoon salt
- 5 Teaspoons butter
- 1 Package active dry yeast
- 2 ½ to 3 ½ cups flour
- Corn starch or nonstick cooking spray
- Warm water
- Microwave
- Oven
- A copy or multiple copies of "The Little Red Hen"
Submitted By:
Green Education Foundation (GEF)
Green Education Foundation (GEF)
School or Group:
Green Education Foundation (GEF)
Green Education Foundation (GEF)
Contact Email:
service@greeneducationfoundation.org
service@greeneducationfoundation.org
Located in: Language Arts
