What's Cooking . . .

Students in grades 6, 7, & 8 are working collaboratively on creating a class cookbook during their computer enrichment classes. This project will incorporate many areas of the curriculum such as technology, art, music, math, language arts, and physical education.

Students will use PowerPoint to format their project. Additional technology will allow the students to photograph their recipes at home and e-mail them to me at mwood@lowell.k12.ma.us. We will also practice manipulating the photographs in iPhoto. I have camera’s available to loan to students!

Since this is a collaborative project, students will design cookbook covers in art, the winning covers will be the front and back of their cookbook. All other artwork will be inserted and incorporated into the cookbook. To accomplish this, students will scan their art into a file.

Students will select music from my library or bring in their own appropriate “G” rated music and incorporate it into their PowerPoint.

The math activity will require students to calculate the fat, calories, carbohydrates and serving sizes of their recipes.

The language arts activity will require the students to write a brief description of why they selected that particular recipe, or if it’s a family favorite, write about the history behind the recipe.

Finally, students will select a physical activity and describe how long they would have to workout to burn the calories for that recipe.

Bon Appetite!