Could the Chocolate Chip Cookie Be the Perfect Teaching Tool?

Ready to use real world project based learning curriculum

The Chocolate Chip Cookie School is a creative, interactive curriculum that leads students to discover the invention stories, happy accidents, hard work and history behind America’s favorite cookie. By deconstructing the cookie, students have fun developing 21st Century skills and seeing how academics relate to the real world.

Chocolate Chip Cookie School curriculum bundle

This 5-module, printable curriculum full of thought-providing exercises is perfect for homeschool and summer school programs (as well as adult school)!

Get it here or on Teachers Pay Teachers.

You may think that talking about cookies all day is a recipe for sugar cravings. On the contrary, the program leads to mindful thinking about where our food comes from and what goes into it.

Want to learn more about the thrill of this creative project-based, real-world learning program?

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Chocolate Chip Cookie School is a book too…

Chocolate Chip Cookie School book cover

For anyone 10+, the book leads readers on a fun journey starting with the question: How did the chocolate chip cookie come to be? through a project-based “start a cookie business or bakesale” chapter.

  • In Part 1, readers LEARN cookie history, exploring each chocolate chip cookie ingredient as Cookie Detectives. Topics and challenges span history, idioms, inventions, baking science, food system changes, social science facts and even product design.
  • In Part 2, readers have the chance to MAKE cookie history as Cookie Entrepreneurs. Assignments include finding a customer, researching what’s behind cookie brands, then planning a bake sale or cookie business as a project-based team (or solo) activity.

Book Benefits:

Kids discover how school comes in handy in the real world and how strong character skills can lead to amazing results — like inventing the most popular cookie in America. There’s no limit to what our beloved cookie can teach!

It’s interesting for adults too, all the way through seniors. I never thought the chocolate chip cookie would be a gateway to all the universe’s secrets. But it is! Well, maybe not all. But it’s SO thought-provoking and interesting.

The book is full of original illustrations and formatted as 8 1/2 x 11, for easy writing and to inspire creativity.

Printable worksheets and activities (coming soon!) add to a learning experience that will stick with kids for a lifetime.

Get the book or distribute the book:

ISBN-13: 978-0996701709
ISBN-10: 0996701702
 

Example pages:

 
What can butter teach kids?
 
what baking equipment had to be invented to make cookies
 
A whole lot more fun history, stories, original illustrations and exercises await Cookie Detectives, in the Chocolate Chip Cookie School!