Learning to bake launches essential living skills while achieving core education goals for literacy, sciences, math, art, and social sciences. There are many baking STEM and career connections with agricultural commodities, ingredient food sciences, retail baking, milling and baking engineering and technology.
The list of educational resources below aim to help parents, teachers, schools and school administrators facilitate student learning and provide social care and interaction. These resources are free and cater to students speaking English and Spanish languages.
It is Home Baking Association’s intention to produce resources that have a wide reach, and reference additional resources produced by member and partner organizations.
Cookie Science Ingredient Functions
Cookie Science Teaching Strategies
Cookie Lab Results Chart, excerpt from Baker’s Dozen Lab 7
Red Star Yeast Baking Resources for Educators
Baking Ingredient Myths and Sciences PPT
Baking STEAM: Measurement Matters
You’ve Got Flour! Baking STEAM, Sourdough Baking
Why Bake? (Lab 1: Baker’s Dozen)
Scoop, Spoon and Scale Activity
Measuring temperature is critical to success in baking, whether it’s checking water temps for yeast, monitoring the temperature of ingredients like butter and flour, or verifying the doneness of the finished product. Check out this informative video, and special educator offer!
Baking Guide from Our Domino® Sugar Experts – East Coast
Best Baking Guide Experience from C&H® Sugar – West Coast
Before You Begin Baking, Take Time to Review the Following Documents
Did You Know? Video resource
Baking Food Safety 101 Checklist and Temperature Guide
How to Measure for Baking, Liquid and Dry
Need ingredient substitutions? Go to p. 1, #2 in
Kitchen Science: Baking for Special Needs
Early Childhood: Pre-K to 2nd Grade
Sugar Association Resources Toolkit K-2
- Where in the US Does Sugar Come From?
- Farm to Table Coloring Book
- One Tooth, Two Teeth
- Variety’s Mountain
For young children prepare a play clay or dough that is cooked.
When children help prepare or shape raw (unbaked) dough, don’t allow them to taste or eat it.
Always wash hands after mixing batter or shaping dough
Age-appropriate skills to learn with adult or older youth’s supervision
Post a Food Skills Checklist so they can see their skills add up!
Explore about baking ingredients, farm to mixing bowl. Wheat, Field to Flour Mill
Farm to Mill to Baker Video: Kansas State U. Extension Kidsacookin.org
Adventures of Sugar Beet and Sugar Cane
Access Bakeworks for the foundation learning baking offers early childhood
Choose from step-by-step recipes
Choose from our Book and Bake guides to enjoy more baking, and reading together
Baking with Friends offers even more baking resources!
Flour Tortilla sample recipe from Baking with Friends
Elementary Age Students
Sugar Association Resources Toolkit Grades 3-6
- Get to Know Sugar Beet and Sugar Cane
- Types of Sugar
- Where does sugar come from?
- Sugar Beet and Sugar Cane Processing
- Sugar’s role in food beyond sweetness
- What is Molasses?
Print and post a Food Skills Checklist so they can see their skills add up!
Checklist Step 1: Go to Take Time to Review and do #1 through #5.
Checklist Step 2: Enjoy learning more about baking’s ingredients, field to oven!
Meet Me At the Flour Mill Video
Where in the US Does Sugar Come From?
The Difference Between Baking Soda and Baking Powder
Explore the History, Culture and Science of Yeast
View how to prepare the dough and bake a loaf of bread
Search and read some of our test kitchen recipes that fit your experience level
Bake for the good of your family! Enjoy the complete Bake for Good guide to baking a whole grain bread or rolls.
Baking with Friends offers more great baking with fun to do recipes for your family or meals.
Check out this Monkey Bread recipe from Baking with Friends
Explore why bakers bake the products they do and how they market them. A Bakers Dozen Labs, Lab 1, Why Bake?
Secondary Age Students
Sugar Association Resources Toolkit Grades 7-12
- How Well Do You Know Sugar
- 9 Misunderstandings
- Types of Sugar
- Sweeteners you might find in your food
- What are Added Sugars?o Facts about sugar intake
- Where in the US does Sugar come from?
- Sugar Beet Processing
- Sugar Cane Refining
- Sugar’s role in food beyond sweetness
- What is Molasses
- Avoiding Misinformation
- Bite Sized Tips on Portion Control
- STEAM Packet
Science Experiment: Flour Absorption and Gluten Development
Explore the wide variety of grains and flours being baked with today
Dine IN! Choose and prepare a Mealtime Solution for your family
Bake with the pros, visit our test kitchen members. See how they blog, create new recipes and teach the art of baking. Write a blog about one new idea you’ve gained from these baking pros.
