Lesson Plan

Date: 4/8/15 Class Start/End Times: 10:24-11:58

Names: Alexis Lundy
Cooperating Teacher: Suzie Burton School: Trailridge Middle School
Subject/level: Exploring Foods and Nutrition/ 7th-8th Grade
Lesson Title: Pizza Demo & Lab (Yeast Bread)

Standard, Benchmark, Indicator
Lesson Goal
Content Lesson Objective(s)
Process Lesson Objective
Essential Question(s)
New & Guarded Vocabulary
Assessment and Criteria
Furniture/Materials/Technology
Set-up
Resources (books, articles, video
links, etc.)
Evidence of Technology
Evidence of Math/Reading
Strategy
8.5: Demonstrate professional food preparation methods and techniques for
all menu categories to produce a variety of food products that meet
customer needs.
8.5.10: Prepare breads, baked goods and desserts using safe handling and
professional preparation techniques.
Students will prepare a pizza and discuss the function of yeast
Why is it essential to knead the dough for a second time before shaping and
baking?
Yeast, shaping the dough
Students will fill out an exit ticket question to check for understanding.
Student must give two examples.
Kahoot that will check for understanding of the material.
Students will fill out lab reflection that reemphasizes what we discussed in
class over yeast breads.
Students will sit in their desk for while going over the directions. They will
then move closer to the demo station while I demo how to shape the pizza.
After, they will go to their kitchen to bake the pizza and then return to their
seats for the reflection while it bakes.
Pizza Dough Recipe, reflection, exit slip, Kahoot
Kahoot, Google Classroom.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.9-10.4: Determine the meaning of words and phrases
as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical
meanings.

Est. Lesson Activities

Time
of
Task
5 I will explain that we are going to practice making yeast bread and make a pizza. I will explain to
Beginning

Min. them what we are doing for the day and that it is important to pay attention to know what to do.
Also, I will reemphasize that all Ipads need to be put away!
 The first thing that I will do for the day is demo how to shape and bake the pizza. I will explain why
you knead the dough a second time before shaping. After the demo, I will have them go into their
labs to make their pizza.
75
Min. While their pizza is baking in the oven, they will sit in their desks and complete their lab reflection.
Middle

They must answer all questions and turn it in when they are done.

After everyone has completed their lab reflection, we will play a Kahoot game reflecting what they
have learned about yeast breads.

20 The last thing they will do for the day if fill out their exit slip that will round out the learning for the
Min. day.
End

Adaptations: What could All Classes: I will make sure that everyone’s IPads are on the correct sites and that
you adapt to help everyone’s is working…if not…I will have paper copies available.
students with learning
disabilities, students
with learning
exceptionalities, &/or
ELL students with this
lesson? (Ex: guided
notes, extended time,
fewer questions, fewer
distractors, setting, etc.)
Modalities: What Visual: The actual recipe, the ingredients, the dough, the notes
modalities did you utilize Auditory: Listening to directions while I am demoing.
in this lesson? How? Kinesthetic: Being in lab and making the dough, filling out notes
Tactile: Touching all the ingredients and making the dough
Strategies: What I utilized cooperative learning because they are in lab with a lab group so they need
instructional strategies to learn how to work together and share responsibilities.
did you utilize in this I integrated technology by doing Google Classroom for their notes.
lesson? (Ex: graphic
organizer, cooperative
learning, discussion,
technology integration,
etc.)
Lesson reflection:
1. What worked?
2. What did not work?
3. What surprised you?
4. What would you do
differently?
(This goes in Entry 5)