I've been trying out a new format for lesson plans: single-subject checklists. When each subject is independent of the others, more work gets done, because nothing arbitrary holds up going on.
The first one completed is for my eleven-year-old's baking class. It's just a sequential, organized checklist of readings and activities from Alton Brown's book Food x Mixing + Heating = Baking, but I'm sharing it here in case you find it handy.
There are sixty-seven steps in the checklist, all reading, baking, or writing and illustrating about the readings, plus an extra reading assignment -- Marc Aronson's Sugar Changed the World -- that is meant to be completed during independent reading time. It's written to the student. It should be doable in three dedicated hours each week.
I'm hoping the kiddo makes it through this checklist before the year's half over so I can make up another covering The Allergen-Free Baker's Handbook and actually profit from the child's skills. I know that Bullar's major motivation is being able to please the people he lives with so I anticipate that he'll be eager to get into gluten-free and dairy-free baking.
Please feel free to email me about typos or mistakes. I don't have an editor and it's darn hard to catch one's own errors.
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The first one completed is for my eleven-year-old's baking class. It's just a sequential, organized checklist of readings and activities from Alton Brown's book Food x Mixing + Heating = Baking, but I'm sharing it here in case you find it handy.
There are sixty-seven steps in the checklist, all reading, baking, or writing and illustrating about the readings, plus an extra reading assignment -- Marc Aronson's Sugar Changed the World -- that is meant to be completed during independent reading time. It's written to the student. It should be doable in three dedicated hours each week.
I'm hoping the kiddo makes it through this checklist before the year's half over so I can make up another covering The Allergen-Free Baker's Handbook and actually profit from the child's skills. I know that Bullar's major motivation is being able to please the people he lives with so I anticipate that he'll be eager to get into gluten-free and dairy-free baking.
Please feel free to email me about typos or mistakes. I don't have an editor and it's darn hard to catch one's own errors.
(Click the gif above to download.)