Elizabeth Samudio

CDEC 2407

Lab # 3 Planning a Creativity Food Activity Food Exploration to Build

Learning Objectives for Activity:

Children will participate in preparing healthy nutritious snacks to explore and try new food.

Materials: You will need to create the recipe by using one measuring cup, one tsp, flour, salt, lukewarm
water, olive oil, Flour tortilla, *optional toppings (Butternut Squash, tomatoes, cheese) for the activity the
following materials for food experience activity.

Intended Skills to Target:

Social, language, cognitive, creative, math/science, and physical development skills

What am I going to Teach?

I will talk about the portions and how many scoops will be used for the food activity. The children use a
rebus chart, they should be able to follow the directions and work independently on this activity. Everyone
will get a turn to pour/add, stir, and count to model how materials are initiated to target the skills when
creating the food experiment The healthy snacks and cooking experiences will provide an appropriate
participation involvement.

How are you going to teach it?

I will start the lesson with books about different kind of variety of foods to discover a cultural tradition to
gain an understanding different unique dishes with healthy vegetables to add to the child’s to exhibit and
try new foods to their food science creativity on their plate. This should help support reach their interest in
new foods on their plate. We can model by making a journal and notating their experience with print and
images by providing vocabulary and pictures of the students to revisit their creativity and exploring their
work. The students can compare the list of supplies that were required for the recipe. As a group the
children can explore the activity and we would review the rebus chart and use to review some vocabulary
for the materials and tools we used. Then students would revise individually but in a small group setting so
I can provide time for inquiry, observation, and questions. A few questions to ask during the process is
Why do you think the cheese make the vegetable stay together when it melted onto the tortilla? What
would happen if we did not add the cheese onto the tortilla? How can we slow down the melting of cheese
process? How can we speed up the melting process? You could scaffold up by starting the conservation
about did it cold to hot, or did it melt and how the salt affects the tortilla to help the melting process.

How will you assess what you have taught?

I plan to observe and assess by asking open-ended questions. I will ask the children how they enjoyed the
experiment and the process to follow instructions. The goal was to support the children’s fine motor skills
and math skills to measure when using the ingredients for the materials for the creation of the food
activity. Another goal was for children to make predictions about what will happen or what ingredients
they would use to create and try new foods that they may gain to exhibit different things on their plate.
The development in their critical thinking skills and the science inquiry skills. As I observe the children to
see if they are making a connection during my observations and asking questions to follow simple
directions with no or limited assistance.

Summary:

I selected this activity to bring about an opportunity for the children to learn and observe new foods to try
healthy vegetables that the children can determine if they like it or not. The children will be engaged in the
science experiment activity. When children work together with the activity this would support social skills
and communication skills. When children are mixing and adding ingredients to corporate together, they
form properties to create an irreversible chemical change to consist molecule structure to absorb and form
a sticky formation that will stay together. The activity will promote language skills with vocabulary with the
materials, measuring, new science terms to relate the changes of state of matter. The children can use
creativity with adding desire toppings. This activity can also support cognitive and critical thinking during
discussion before, during, and after activity. By asking open ended questions and discussing the process
during the activity. The teacher should explain what is happening during the types and provide vocabulary
for all tools, materials, and processing that are used or occur during the activity. 

Lesson Instructions:

Step 1: Measure 1 cup of flour

Step 2: Pour Flour into the bowl mix with spoon

Step 3: Measure 1 Tsp of Salt pour into the bowl

Step 4: Measure 1 cup of lukewarm water then add into bowl

Step 5: Measure 1 Tsp of olive oil and add into the bowl

Step 6: place one Flour tortilla onto plate

Step 7: Add Butternut Squash (optional)

Step 8: Add Tomatoes (optional)

Step 9: Add melted Cheese (optional)

Elizabeth Samudio

CDEC 2407

Lab # 3 Planning a Creativity Food Activity

Butternut Squash Flour Tortilla Wrap

1 cups of flour
1 Bowl to pour flour
2 Spoons to stir
1tsp. of salt
1 cup of lukewarm water
1tsp. of olive oil
Tortilla as many as needed for student
8 oz. bag of Butternut Squash
1 dice tomato
8 oz. bag mild cheese
I talk about the portions and how many scoops we are using. Everyone gets a turn to pour/add, stir, and
count.

Rebus

Step 1: Measure 1 cup of flour Step 2: Pour Flour

Step 3: Measure 1 Tsp of Salt Step 4: Measure 1 cup of lukewarm water

Step 5: Measure 1 Tsp of olive oil Step 6: one Flour tortilla

Step 7: Add Butternut Squash (optional) Step 8: Add Tomatoes (optional)

Step 9: Add Cheese (optional)
Article Resources that are helpful to provide to families
Work Cited:

Charlesworth R. (2016, 2014). Math and Science for Young Children, Eighth Edition

Boston, MA: Cengage Learning.

https://tea.texas.gov/academics/early-childhood-education/texas-prekindergarten-guidelines