Lesson Plan

Bread & Yeast Lesson Plan

Wake up a packet of yeast, watch it blow up a balloon, and end the week with a warm loaf of bread you baked yourselves.

This five-day kitchen science unit gives you a ready-to-teach plan for three levels, Littles (K-3), Middles (4-6) and Bigs (7-8), for siblings or a mixed classroom. Each day follows the same rhythm: Reading, Writing and Words, Science and Math, Hands-on Project, then Friday Show and Tell with the finished loaf. Littles color the inside of a wheat kernel and run a sugar balloon test. Middles test temperature and sugar with four balloon bottles and double a recipe with fractions. Bigs measure fermentation rates and read ancient sources on Egyptian bread and bake by baker's percentages. Every oven step is done with a grown-up.

Perfect for homeschool families, multi-age classrooms, kitchen science and food units.

What's inside

• 5 ready-to-teach days for each of three levels
• Inside a Wheat Kernel label sheet with answer key
• Lab sheets: balloon test, balloon yeast lab, fermentation rate lab
• Sequence cards, cut-and-sort pages and a writing page for every level
• Word search, crossword or maze, scramble and secret code puzzles
• 8 fact cards, 9 vocabulary cards, a book list and a certificate per level

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