Pumpkin with a Sugar Coating.....Mmm Mmm GOOOOD!

In this picture we are beginning to make pumpkin candy. We are melting the butter and getting ready to cut the pumpkin into ½ inch pieces.

The activity we were doing was making pumpkin candy. I had never heard of pumpkin candy until this day but I must say it is amazing. The activity required that first melt butter into the pan then cut the pumpkin into ½ inch pieces. After we cut up the pumpkin we added it to the butter to allow it to cook for twenty minutes. Once the twenty minutes had passed we added maple syrup, sugar, cinnamon and ginger to the pumpkin pieces to sugar coat it. We then let it cool down over night so that we could eat it during Thursday’s class.

During this activity I observed that everyone was working together as a team. I noticed that not only was everyone building a community and communication skills but they were also learning. They were helping each acquire they information they needed to complete their task.

During this activity I developed a better understanding of inquiry. I believe this was an activity of inquiry because not everyone in the group had experience with cooking yet everyone asked questions and used their resources such as the other students who had cooked before.