{"id":3705,"date":"2021-11-30T08:09:37","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T16:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/?p=3705"},"modified":"2021-11-30T08:10:46","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T16:10:46","slug":"no-bake-doggie-treats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/no-bake-doggie-treats\/","title":{"rendered":"No Bake Doggie Treats"},"content":{"rendered":"

Student Contributor -B. Bazaldua
\nFor this project, students will be learning about animal shelters and their role in our local community. After that, students will get to make no bake doggie treats and donate them to SpokAnimal<\/a> animal shelter. After they finish making their treats they will get to go on SpokAnimal\u2019s website and choose the dog they would like to donate their treats to.\"\"<\/p>\n

To start off, I brought my second-grade students together as a whole group to introduce our activity. During this lesson, I taught them about how important it is that our community has an animal shelter and that they help give homeless animals a place to stay until they find a loving home. After the lesson, we had a discussion on what they learned, and to my surprise, many of the students were so moved and inspired to help give back. This is when we decided that it would be fun to make no-bake doggie treats to help make the dogs in the shelter feel special. I reached out to
\nSpokAnimal and they said they would love to partner with us for this donation project! Once we had our partner organization in place we got to work on our doggie treats. The tricky part of this project was finding a no-bake recipe that didn\u2019t include peanut butter considering some students have allergies. Finally, after some research, I found a 3-ingredient recipe that called for coconut oil, pumpkin puree, and oats. The kids had a blast making these and even completed an instructional writing piece describing how to make these treats so that they could make them on their own at home! After we made them each student placed their treats in a goodie bag with their name and the name of a dog on it and I delivered them to the shelter the next day. This project turned out to be very meaningful to the students because not only did they understand why we made the treats but it inspired them to want to give back to the community outside of our classroom!<\/p>\n

\"\"Overall, the project went very well! It definitely had more of an impact on the students than I expected! I loved seeing how their eyes lit up when they were making the treats and learning about why we were donating them. One of the biggest things I had to modify was the recipe. It was tricky to find one that didn\u2019t contain nuts or peanut butter. That is why it is very important to consider your students’ allergies. I would suggest that if you do this project to just make sure you plan it out in stages. For example, my stages were to start with an introduction lesson, then make the treats, write about how we made them, and then place them in the goodie bag.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For this project, students will be learning about animal shelters and their role in our local community. After that, students will get to make no bake doggie treats and donate them to SpokAnimal animal shelter. After they finish making their treats they will get to go on SpokAnimal\u2019s website and choose the dog they would like to donate their treats to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2049,"featured_media":3706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpo365_audiences":[],"wpo365_private":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-3705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-small-project","tag-k-2nd-grade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3705"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2049"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3705"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3736,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3705\/revisions\/3736"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}