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Summary and Objective
Students will understand that the process of preparing food such a gingerbread was quite different in the Colonial Era than it is today. Sudents will listen to stories, look at photographs, and compare past cooking methods and technology with today.
Teaching Plan
Step 1.
Pre-activity: Share with students that gingerbread is a treat many people enjoy around the Christmas holiday. This treat often contains many ingredients that you would find in the "oils" section of the food pyramid.
Step 2.
Pre-activity: Over the next several days, read a variety of Gingerbread Man stories. Such books may include, but are not limited to, "The Gingerbread Baby" by Jan Brett, "The Gingerbread Man" by Karen Schmitt, and listening to "The Gingerbread Man" on the CD "Once Upon A Rhyme". After reading a variety of stories compare and contrast the characters, settings and methods used to make gingerbread cookies.
Step 3.
Focusing on each picture from the American Centuries website, ask students to share and describe what they see. When necessary, ask such questions as, "How old are the people?" "What are they doing?" "Does it look like hard work?" "Where are the men?" "What is the woman holding?" "Is this kitchen similar to the kitchen in your home?"
Step 4.
Focus students' attention the picture of the neck yoke. Ask how did they get the milk to make the butter that goes into the cookies? Looking at the bake kettle, ask students to compare this pan to a pan they would probably use when baking gingerbread today. Ask, "Which pan/kettle might be easier to use?" "Why does the bake kettle have a handle?" "Where is the source of heat to cook the gingerbread?"
Step 5.
Post activity: Together as a class, have students dictate a recipe for Colonial Gingerbread or a modern day recipe as you write it down on chart paper.
Step 6.
Finally, following a published recipe make, and eat gingerbread cookies as a class!
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