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Janelle Bailey

Birthday Cakes

Grades: 4th Grade, 6th Grade, 5th Grade
Subjects: STEAM

Student Instructions

LOOK: At the pictures of birthday cakes. TALK: Ask the older adults in your bubble if they remember a thing called - The Australian Women's Weekly Birthday Cake Book. Show them this video if they can't remember... https://bit.ly/2KJQ9wh Ask them to tell you about a memory they have of a cake from that book. DO: Design your dream imaginary completely made up birthday cake. Anything is possible and affordable - the budget is as much money as you need. You'll need to create a diagram of how everything will look. Your cake must have A theme (like rainbow unicorns or lego or space) At least 5 layers. Only stuff that can be be made of cake or icing. SUCCESS CRITERIA: - Your diagram must show us - the flavour of each layer the decorations for each layer. colours for each layer. any surprise features (e.g. a volcano inside) Take a photo of your design and use the mic tool to tell us - what flavours you have, what decorations you are using, what colours you used and what your special feature is.

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