Our structured learning students have a combination of disabilities that require extensive communication and/or physical and mobility supports in order to meaningfully participate in the academic setting. Our students taking, or would be highly likely to require, the Alternate Texas Assessment in all content areas. Although our students in the structured learning classroom frequently have some degree of physical or neurological disability, a student should not be assigned to a structured learning classroom for these disabilities only. Our students in our structured learning classroom have pronounced cognitive involvement that requires them to be educated exclusively in the extended standards and to be supported with intense and sustained resources throughout the day.
My Project
Cooking is an excellent way to include a variety of students in a task at each of their own levels and to work on a variety of academic and functional like skills. We like it as a task for students of all ages, but it becomes increasingly important as students get older and need to learn skills to learn skills for living on their own or with support. Cooking with simply machines gives our students the opportunity to work on reading skills, listening skills (e.g., one student can read the recipe and one can complete the steps), sequencing, nutrition, meal planning, math for measuring and adjusting recipes, use a variety of simple kitchen tools, and on and on. It also is very motivating to our students because typically they get to eat what they make. A couple of things we think about while cooking in the classroom, in addition to what tools you have available to the job, is how to make sure that each student is an active participant in the lesson. Too many times kitchen equipment turns out to be too complicated for what the students’ skills are and teachers end up doing the majority of cooking while students watch. Clearly this was not the intention as it’s not functional for the student’s learning to simply watch someone else cook, since most of our students learn best from doing. Simple machines can help alleviate student frustration in the kitchen.
Hamilton Beach (76606ZA) Smooth Touch Electric Automatic Can Opener with Easy Push Down Lever, Opens All Standard-Size and Pop-Top Cans, Black and Chrome
• Amazon Business
$29.85
1
$29.85
BLACK+DECKER Countertop Blender with 5-Cup Glass Jar, 10-Speed Settings, Black, BL2010BG
• Amazon Business
$22.31
1
$22.31
Kitchen Timer, 2 Pack Digital Kitchen Timers [ 2020 Version ] Magnetic Countdown Timer with Loud Alarm, Big Digits, Back Stand for Cooking, Classroom, Bathroom, Teachers, Kids - AAA Battery Included
• Amazon Business
$7.62
1
$7.62
Taylor Classic Series Large Dial Oven Thermometer
• Amazon Business
$6.93
1
$6.93
Materials cost
$165.90
Vendor shipping charges
FREE
Sales tax
$0.00
3rd party payment processing fee
$2.49
Fulfillment labor & materials
$30.00
Total project cost
$198.39
Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
$35.01
Total project goal
$233.40
How we calculate what's needed
Total project goal
$233.40
4 Donors
-$233.40
Donations toward project cost
-$198.39
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