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Summary and Objective
Students will examine vintage kitchen items for making and eating bread (18th-19th century way to make bread - bread-making in pre-industrial America). The goal of this activity is to help children understand that bread-making played a very important role in the home.
Teaching Plan
Step 1.
Have students examine the digital collection of artifacts from American Centuries Website which relate to baking toasting and buttering. They will predict/hypothesize what each item was used for.
Step 2.
Students will then examine artifacts (bring in real artifacts, if possible) to compare to the photos and then re-evaluate their hypothesis.
Step 3.
Students will listen to a variety a stories about the importance of bread making and how all over the world bread making plays an important part in the home. Suggestions include "Bread around the World" by Cynthia Rothman, "Bread Bread Bread" by Ann Morris, and "Bread is for Eating" by David &Phillis Gershator.
Step 4.
Students will then, as a class, make a pop-up book using pictures from the digital collection. They will also write a sentence about each item and what role it played in breadmaking or eating bread.
Step 5.
Students will make their own butter. They will do this by using a baby food jar and filling it half full with heavy cream. They will shake it for 15-20 minutes until butter is made.
Step 6.
Students will enjoy their butter with a piece of bread.
Step 7.
Students will take the rest of the butter home to share with their families and take a poll to see who likes it and who doesn't. They will then add this to a classroom graph used for the final discussion of appreciating bread and butter-making.
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