Writing Scoop: Baking for Education

Almost every activity you can think of can be educational!  Baking is highly educational AND you later can eat your work!

Baking involves interdisciplinary STEM skills:

1.  Science:
chemistry, combining ingredients to react with each other
biology, eating & tasting
physics, heating the mixture (batter) & melting various ingredients (butter, chocolate)

2.  Technology:
using blenders, mixers, digital ovens
electric choppers for nuts and/or chocolate
dough machines

3.  Engineering
fitting baking sheets into the oven
constructing layer cakes
rolling out dough for cookies or strudle

4.  Math:
measurung ingredients
geometrically fitting dough into pans or cookies on sheets
figuring out portions when halving or doubling a recipe

There you have it!  Bake a batch of cookies to support STEM learning!

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