Plan a Bake Sale - Project Based Learning Unit Math and Economics Unit

Everyone loves cupcakes and sweets from a bakery. In this PROJECT BASED LEARNING - PLAN A BAKE SALE unit, your students learn about economics and entrepreneurship as they open their very own bakery (option: have a bake sale). This student-centered project incorporates collaboration and differentiation by providing student choice. This real-world challenge requires students to use inquiry, critical thinking, and their creative minds during the high-interest cross-curricular [math, ELA] activities. Students integrate digital learning into the project as they investigate and plan their final product.

There are some things students need to do so their shop will be a success. It requires them to do research and planning.

This PBL unit incorporates 21st Century skills with challenging, engaging, and creative activities. There are lots of opportunities for differentiation, cooperative learning, and technology integration.

IN THIS UNIT:

• Learn about the history of cupcakes and about some Austin bakeries.
• Photos of a visit to Nothing Bundt Cakes, Hey Cupcake, and Sugar Mamas.
• Take a survey to learn about favorite cupcake flavors. Graph results
• Create questions for a business survey; Record results
• Questions about starting a bakery. Choose a name, logo, and slogan for your bakery.
• Design a storefront (use my template or design your own)
• Create your own business plan (company overview)
• Interview an owner or manager of a bakery.
• Create a new flavor of cupcakes and description words
• Create a new cupcake
• How to Make Cupcakes and Needs of Our School (Writing)
• Design a flyer to advertise your shop. (This can be done on the computer or on a blank sheet of paper.) Make sure to include important info about your shop.
• Design business cards
• Create coupons for your ice cream shop.
• Plan a menu for your bakery. – Students can even create their own design after using this template as a rough draft.
• Inventory (choice of using a spreadsheet)
• Plan social media for your ice cream shop
• Cupcake and cookie recipes
• Use a spreadsheet to take orders and to make large recipes.
• Design bake sale booth and make a scale drawing.
• Invitations
• Reflections

**Note: Activities can easily be adapted for enrichment or gifted students in other grade levels.

TEACHERS LIKE YOU HAVE SAID...

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "This was an amazing unit! This was a great end of the year project. My students really enjoyed it and were very engaged. We finished the unit by ordering cupcakes from a local bakery. Thanks for an outstanding resource!"

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “Amazing resource for my extension students! They were highly engaged in this IBL and were able to actually complete the unit by holding a teachers bake sale.”

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “This unit is AMAZING! Sandy took a personal request of mine and went out of her way to make this version so that I can use it for my class. At my school, we do Project Based Learning and I can personally say that her units ALL hit the principles of PBL. They are interactive, fun, exciting units that integrate core curriculum and get students critically thinking. Thank you, Sandy, for a truly perfect PBL unit! :)"

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