Project Based Learning Electives provided by the Berrien Springs Virtual Academy
Virtual Baking Spring 2025
All students must complete a project for these classes.
- Instructor: Mandy Jankoviak
- Email: mjankoviak@homeoftheshamrocks.org
- Phone: 574-309-1677
- Format: Virtual, on your own schedule, with weekly check-in using Google Classroom
- Location: Online
- Grades: 4th grade and up (K-3 allowed, but will need assistance)
This course will teach the basics of baking from scratch. We will make sweet treats and learn to enjoy our time in the kitchen! At the beginning of the semester we will meet at the Virtual Academy to pick up your baking supplies. We will provide the ingredients needed. Students will need a mixer, basic baking utensils, muffin tins, rolling pin, and cookie sheets. Each week, students will watch a short video of the instructor demonstrating the recipe. Then, they will bake on their own. Recipes will be sent to the students as well as links for the videos.
Virtual Baking - Part 1
Assignment 1: Applesauce
Assignment 2: Sugar cookie dough
Assignment 3: Rolling and baking sugar cookies
Assignment 4: Buttercream frosting
Assignment 5: Decorating
Assignment 6: Pumpkin chocolate chip cupcakes
Assignment 7: Chocolate buttercream
Assignment 8: Decorating cupcakes
Assignment 9: No bake cookies
Assignment 10: Sour cream coffee cake muffins
Assignment 11: Double chocolate chip cookies
Assignment 12: Banana bread
Assignment 13: Carmelitas
Assignment 14: Carmel Corn
Virtual Baking Part 2 *coming Fall 2025
Assignment 1: Apple fritter bread
Assignment 2: Cranberry white chocolate chip cookies
Assignment 3: Dinner rolls
Assignment 4: Homemade brownies
Assignment 5: Dipped rice krispie treats
Assignment 6: Chocolate chip cookie cake
Assignment 7: Decorating cookie cake
Assignment 8: Lemon cupcakes
Assignment 9: Strawberry frosting
Assignment 10: Cinnamon Roll dough
Assignment 11: Cinnamon Roll baking and topping
Assignment 12: Cake Mix cookies
Virtual Baking Part 1 Syllabus
Virtual Baking Part 2 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: Lisa Van Plew-Cid
