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Group size:
5 children and one adult (parent helper if possible)
Teaching resources:
Digital camera (optional)
Equipment:

smoothie maker or blender
extension power cord (if needed)
spoon
spatula
cleaning cloth and spray
cups (5 or more)
electric scales (optional)
measuring cup (optional)

Ingredients:

milk (eg a litre)
vanilla ice-cream (eg a litre)
fruit – such as 3 ripe bananas, lge can of apricots or peaches, etc

Method:
I like the freedom of students [...]

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If you’ve been in any of my classes, you probably know that I’m a bit of a foody and love ‘exploiting’ cooking as a way of teaching language and using literacies for authentic purposes.
After surfing the web and finding that ‘cooking’ and ‘kids’ tended to bring up sites that were designed for parents cooking [...]

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