Recipe rescue: a STEAM workshop
Through movement, imagination, and performance, I help elementary school educators teach STEAM in a fun and relatable way.
You know how some elementary school educators are struggling to teach STEAM in a way that the students really get it, especially the STEM part? And how discouraging and frustrating for their students to find STEM “boring” or not useful for their lives? I help elementary school educators who want to teach STEAM and STEM in playful and engaging ways for the students.
Recipe Rescue is a fun and interactive workshop that includes:
- Author Nancy Li reading the “Let’s Make A Cake!” picture book read out loud and doing a Q&A
- Bringing characters to life through exploration
- Importance of observation in the “Let’s Make A Cake” book, science, and baking
- Science of baking and chemistry with ingredient character (e.g., flour, eggs, sugar, etc.) exploration
- Recipe rescue through interactive performance
STEAM learnings include:
- Science – playful learning of the study of structure and behavior of the world through observation
- Chemistry – how each ingredient has a form and function in baking
- Working together as a team via different character ingredients
The Recipe Rescue workshop also includes supporting material such as:
- STEM lesson plan for 3rd to 4th grade level Common Core Standards and includes creating, adding, and subtracting fractions, number lines, time telling, and science of taste
- SEL lesson plans for students to explore the feelings and motivations of different characters in the “Let’s Make A Cake!” picture book
- Coloring sheets, word search, origami fortune teller, and other fun activities