This is an investigative project for students to research specific food borne illnesses in more depth and then visually showcase them through Animoto, a free site that turns photos and video clips into professional video slideshows in minutes.
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Meatball Lab
Time Frame: 1.5 Hour block Objective The student will prepare and evaluate a recipe of meatballs according to the skills and techniques they have learned in meat cookery. Set Show a short video on how to make meatballs like this…
Be Safe not Sorry Cartoon
There are thousands of ways to teach safety and sanitation to your students. This lesson is primarily lecture with fill in the blank notes and a safety cartoon for homework to reinforce what they learned.
Lasagna Take Home Meal Fundraiser
Prepare this delicious sausage lasagna as a take home meal fundraiser or in your student restaurant. Read more for tips on how to make this fundraiser a success and download a profit spreadsheet to get you started.
Pie Lab
Time Frame: 2 blocks Objective: Given a demonstration on how to make an apple pie, students will make their own pie with 90% accuracy and evaluate factors that affect pie results. National Standard: 8.4 Demonstrate planning menu items based on…
Labor & Delivery Lesson
Engage your students in a lively discussion of labor and delivery methods and practices. Students will learn the sequential events of delivery and watch a real delivery.
USDA Food Pyramid Replaced by Food Guide Dinner Plate
The new “Choose My Plate” campaign has been launched starring a colorful yet simple place setting. The cost of changing the food recommendation icon for the US is $2 million dollars. Hopefully the money spent on this campaign will pay off in health care savings as people use this new food guide to eat healthier. That’s where Family and Consumer Science teachers come into play. Teachers have power to influence, train, and instruct students in the right way to do lots of things.
Babies and Technology Lesson
An increase in technology means more choices for childbearing and technological feats that have been miraculous. However, this technology also brings with it a whole bunch of controversy from different groups. Help your students evaluate, take a position on, and make arguments for and against different sides of the baby technology controversy.
Burritos- Take Home Meals Fundraiser
Prepare this delicious burrito bake as a take home meal fundraiser or serve it in your student restaurant. Tips on how to make this fundraiser a success with the evaluation, labels, and order form to help you get started.
Raspberry Cheesecake Cookies
Reverse engineering packaged foods has been a hobby of mine for a few years now. It is fascinating how “they” come up with these products and to see if I can recreate them to make them taste better in my own kitchen. As many of you know and hopefully have tried by now, Subway came introduced their raspberry cheesecake cookies through a free raspberry cheesecake cookie promotion on Valentine’s Day just a month ago. As soon as I tried it I thought it was excellent and immediately wanted to make them in large quantities at home!