Before I retired from being a middle school FACS teacher, I encountered two very sneaky, very greedy young men during a cookie-baking lab. Unbeknownst to me, they doubled the sugar and the margarine thinking to make more cookies than allowed. As the dough melted it ran off the cookie sheet, started a fire in the oven, and set off the fire alarms in the building! When it was all over, my young friends had to come back after school to scrub down the oven and scour the baking sheet. We all learned a lesson that day--about baking for the boys, and about sneaky adolescents for me!

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