Lesson Plan

Bread & Yeast Lesson Plan: Middles Edition

Run a balloon yeast lab, test gluten by kneading, and double a recipe with fractions.

This is the Middles Edition of Bread & Yeast: one ready-to-teach week written just for grades 4-6. Every day follows the same rhythm: Reading on Monday, Writing and Words on Tuesday, Science and Math on Wednesday, a Hands-on Project on Thursday, and Show and Tell on Friday.

The big question: How can a living fungus and a stretchy protein turn flour into a fluffy loaf?

The Week

• Mon: The Seed Behind the Flour (Reading) • Tue: Diary of a Yeast Cell (Writing & Words) • Wed: Balloon Yeast Lab (Science & Math) • Thu: The Windowpane Test (Hands-on Project) • Fri: Bakery Science Fair (Show & Tell)

Teaching more than one level? The all-levels edition of Bread & Yeast has Littles (K-3), Middles (4-6) and Bigs (7-8) in one file, so siblings or a mixed classroom can study the same topic together.

Perfect for homeschool families, grade 4-6 classrooms, co-ops and substitute plans.

What's inside

• 5 ready-to-teach days for Middles (grades 4-6), about 60 to 90 minutes a day
• Lab sheet: Balloon Yeast Lab
• Sequence cards (How Bread Rises) and a cut-and-sort page (Yeast, Gluten or Oven Heat?)
• Writing page: Diary of a Yeast Cell
• Hands-on project: Windowpane Loaf
• Word search, crossword, scramble and secret code puzzles
• 8 fact cards, 9 vocabulary cards and a book list of 4 titles
• A certificate and an answer key for the grown-up

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