Session 4 Piara Waters - Andrea and Jasmine Year 7 Maths

Because our challenge is stillness and quietness, we adopted the Breath Marks exercise.

Materials: A sheet of paper for each student - any size, loose leaf

or in a journal/workbook, preferably blank but it can be

lined. Texta or marker pens and a timer.

Set Up: Each student needs a space where they can sit or lie

comfortably, on their own for 5 minutes and have the

materials close to hand.

Rules: Ask students to breathe in and out, making a mark on

the paper each time they breathe. Special breathing is

not required, no deep breaths or holding of breath, just

normal breathing. Any kind of mark can be made – a

dot, a line, a shape, a squiggle. During the activity the

only sounds made by the participants are the sounds of

the pens making marks on the paper and the sounds of

Breathing.

Today's activity connected recipe scaling with understanding food needs in communities.

Divides students into 7 groups of 4

Recipe Analysis & Scaling (15 minutes)

1. Collaborative Work: Students share their family recipes with their group

   • Which is the most cost effective recipe? Vegetarian?

   • Which has the easiest storage or longest shelf life?

   • Which is the most nutritious?

2. Inquisitive Task: Groups select one recipe then answer:

   • How many servings does the original recipe make?

   • What are the key ingredients and their quantities?

   • If we needed to feed 100 people, how would we scale this recipe?

Reflection & Sharing (10 minutes)

1. Each group briefly shares their recipe, scaling calculations, and one insight about hunger in Australia

2. Groups summarise the mathematical principles they applied (ratios, proportions, unit conversion)

Added sand from today’s creative habits 5 min

We found out in the last week that the principal has said only food tec classes can be in the food tech room so we have had to think about how to change our plans a little, especially for week 6 and 8. We are now thinking abou thawing a session where we will start to digitally document our ingredients and then the final session 8 we are still wanting to have a session in the currently empty canteen, culminating in donating our food to a charity. 

If any new skills introduced they need an explicit demo in person rather than in any worksheet type documentation. Jasmine can help identify if they are new by checking hte weekly planned activity when Andrea sends it through.

Inquisitive, disciplined, persistent

Today’s main activity was a bit too simple an activity for the size of the group.

They seem into food and are looking forward to eating! They are very fond of sweet things.

Jasmine to share documents with students via onedrive going forward.

Jasmine to comment on appropriateness of activities if they are too small for suggested groups. 

Jasmine to get the fried rice recipe from the student and we will share the making of this. 

School facebook 

Compass (intranet) to raise awareness with families 

Andrea and Jasmine to share photos with each other via google drive