Project Based Learning Electives provided by the Berrien Springs Virtual Academy

Beginning and Advanced Baking                                      Spring 2022
Students and teachers must be able to readily switch to online instruction at any point in the semester in order to register for classes. All students must complete a project for these classes.

instructor: Joel Bennett       email: mrjoelabennett@icloud.com               
​phone:  #317.764.6030
Format: In-person
Masks: Optional
Location: 1201 Maiden Lane, Saint Joseph, MI 49085  

Advanced Baking: Student Choice        (This class is for kids very comfortable in the kitchen)​
Wednesdays, beginning Jan. 12
Ages 9-18      10-11:45 AM 
In this advanced baking course, you will focus on using your skills, talents, and creativity bake recipes that you and your fellow students choose. After the first week, the recipes are up to you! Come the first week with several recipes that you would really like to make, I’ll put them on the schedule and bring the ingredients!
Syllabus

Advanced Baking: Competition        (This class is for kids very comfortable in the kitchen)​
Wednesdays, beginning Jan. 12
Ages 9-18      12-1:45 PM  OR  4-5:45PM
In this advanced baking competition course, you will focus on using your skills and talents to work in partner teams to meet challenges in different categories. After the first 3 skill building weeks, we begin a cumulative point competition. You will have a rubric that scores your creations on: 

1. Meeting the basic requirements 
2. Use of surprise ingredient
3. Balance of flavors
4. Creativity
5. Presentation
6. Clean finished work environment

At the end of the course, the team with the highest cumulative score will be crowned (with a minor and fairly insignificant crown).
Syllabus

Beginning Baking
Wednesdays, beginning Jan. 12
Ages 8+       2-3:45 PM

OR 

Virtual Baking(contact instructor for more information) must begin in January
Learn the basics of baking with experience in a wide range of products over 10 sessions!   In this course you will make corn bread, pizza, cinnamon rolls, brownies, apple crisp, and cakes, all from scratch!  You will walk away with food and a recipe book.  
Syllabus

*Please note: it is important to make as informed a decision as possible when choosing your student's Community Resource classes. Most locations will allow a student to drop a class after one meeting, at no charge if it wasn't a good fit for the student, but not all. Some classes plan ahead based on the number that have signed up and have purchased materials, hired teachers, etc. and there might be a fee for class time or materials given to the student if the student drops after one or two meetings. The school cannot pay for classes that students do not complete, so choose wisely; if you do not take the class off of your student's schedule by the deadline, you may be asked to pay for the class time incurred prior to dropping the class.

Teacher of Record: Peres Sambu