On the second day of baking massive amounts of cookies, find the red & green chocolate, chocolate chip cookies. Did I say chocolate twice? These are brownie like cookies with the beautiful touch of red and green chips. Red &…
On the first day of the Christmas Cookie Factory there were these irresistibly fun chocolate chips in the grocery store that just needed to be made into something tasty but that still showed of their colors! Red & Green Chocolate…
This lesson compels students to analyze fast food marketing practices specifically the marketing efforts aimed at children and teenagers. Using Neilsen commercial data, students answer a variety of questions and draw their own conclusions.
Some times you have those short class periods or extra time at the end of a test or lesson. So I found a great mini lesson on hard work for you to use with your students. Many students think that…
The idea for this lesson came from Alison Gopnik’s work studying babies minds. “What’s it like to be a baby? It’s like being in love in Paris for the first time after you’ve had three double espressos” she says. This lesson is an introduction to scientific studies on human beings and aims to replicate Ms. Gopnik’s broccoli vs. goldfish empathy experiment.
Who says pie is only for dessert? Summer is wrapping up and tomatoes are in abundance. This vegetarian recipe is quick and can be completed in a one block class because the ingredients are hot going into the pie reducing the cooking time.
Can I say that sometimes I am fascinated with the breadth of prepared foods available to us today? One that caught my eye was the Jimmy Dean Griddle Sticks. I liked the concept and wanted to make a homemade version. This lesson is not only about making a homemade version but about careers in food engineering and food marketing.
This weekend I was in Boston and saw the cutest change purse. I looked it over and said, “I can make this!” So here it is my example with directions, patterns, etc. Enjoy!
Serina wrote in asking if I had any resources for family consumer science interactive notebooks. Unfortunately a typical google search doesn’t produce anything but interactive notebook materials for science, English, and history classes. However, Interactive Notebooks are a great fit for Family and Consumer Science classes!
Danish look and taste amazing but there is a reason to buy them–they take forever to make! However, if you are teaching an advanced Baking & Pastry class or preparing your students for FCCLA competitions you may want to teach your students about how to make laminated dough.
