The whole school enjoyed celebrating Shrove Tuesday today. The children have been learning about this practice as part of our RME topics on Easter and Lent.
In P4-7, we applied HOTS creating skills by designing a range of topping choices for our pancakes: 1 healthy, 1 indulgent and the one they actually produced.
As P4-7 are also learning about fractions in maths this term, we applied this in context to engage with the recipe at differentiated levels. We did the following:
- Halved the recipe ingredients to make a lesser quantity of pancake batter
- Worked out the fraction of a litre we used for 200ml of milk (1/5th)
- Worked out what fraction of a kilogram we used for 100g of flour (1/10th)
- Converted between improper and mixed fractions i.e. when we added five, 1/4 teaspoons of sugar to our mixture. We calculated that this equates to 5/4 as an improper fraction and 1 whole + 1/4 as a mixed fraction.
P1-3 focussed on using and applying instructions as part of following recipes. The children used their maths skills to measure and weigh the correct amount of each ingredient to make the batter mix. The activity was followed up by creating and/or organising the correct sequenced steps for a pancake recipe. The boys and girls then had a mock pancake race for PE using beanbags and racquetes.
As part of estimating and measure, the class measured out 15 metres in the hall to visualise the circumference of the biggest pancake ever made. Everyone agreed it would have taken some eating!
Throughout the food technologies activity, all the boys and girls worked safely and hygienically to cook their individual pancakes before selecting their toppings to enjoy as a tasty snack.
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