Recipe for the Depression
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The document provides instructions for an assessment activity where students must create a recipe for "The Great Depression" using the proper components and format of a recipe. A recipe must include all necessary ingredients listed with specific amounts in proper proportion to each other, as well as a carefully outlined procedure in a logical series of steps that take the ingredients and manipulate them to create the final product. Students will be evaluated based on including all required elements of a proper recipe for the assigned topic.
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Recipe for the Depression
- 1. ASSESSMENT ACTIVITY A Recipe for Disaster
- 2. Public Domain - Retrieved from Wikimedia Commons How Much Do You Know About What Caused the Great Depression?
- 3. A Recipe for Disaster A recipe has two central components: 1. Ingredients 2. Procedure
- 4. Ingredients A recipe has a coherent set of ingredients that, together, make up a particular dish These ingredients are always listed with speci鍖c amounts e.g. - a recipe for bread has a particular amount of yeast, sugar, water, and 鍖our The amounts are in proportion to each other e.g. - when making bread, for example, a relatively sma# amount of yeast is combined with a relatively large amount of 鍖our Spices are often included in amounts that are su鍖cient to provide speci鍖c tastes without overpowering other ingredients Your recipe must include ALL of the ingredients that help you craft a recipe that demonstrates your understanding of the assigned content
- 5. Procedure Recipes include a very carefully outlined procedure Your recipe must include a logical series of steps that take the ingredients and "manipulate" them to create the 鍖nal product (The Great Depression) There are a number of terms that are useful because they indicate di鍖erent ways of working with ingredients e.g. - Some verbs indicate a gentle combination (fold, si%, incorporate) while other procedures are more a'ressive (knead, whisk, crush.) Some things MUST happen before others e.g. an oven must be pre-heated before baking or ingredients must be combined before they are baked!
- 6. Rubric
- 7. This is an INDIVIDUAL project Recipe is due on Tuesday April 12. Unit Test will be on Wednesday April 13
- 8. Lesson plan & rubric adapted with permission from John Zola. www.johnzola.com