Fun with Cooking
Length: 28 lessons
Includes: Printable lessons and recipes with numerous activities
Age/Grade: 2nd – 6th Grades
How to Use This Course
Fun with Cooking is an exciting look at cooking basics with an emphasis on nutrition, food safety, and variety. Many lessons include a design component to help sharpen critical thinking skills. Numerous recipes are included.
Course Introduction
Fun with Cooking starts on an introductory level and gradually moves into techniques such as kneading bread dough and various chopping methods. Food safety and nutrition are stressed, but all lessons should only be done under the supervision of a parent. Foods and ingredients from around the world are explored, and students will make dips, salads, bread, salsa, tomato dishes, ethnic dishes, and more.
Unit 1: Dip and Dippers
- Lesson 1: Evaluation Dips
- Lesson 2: Exploring Dips and Dippers
- Lesson 3: Food Groups
- Lesson 4: Food Safety and Hygiene
- Lesson 5: Designing a Dip and Dipper
- Lesson 6: Making and Evaluating Your Dip and Dipper
Unit 2: Sensational Salads
- Lesson 1: Where Our Food Comes From (Above or Beneath the Ground)
- Lesson 2: Preparing Root Vegetable Salads
- Lesson 3: Fish Facts
- Lesson 4: Making a Fish Salad
- Lesson 5: Fabulous Fruit Salad
Unit 3: Edible Garden
- Lesson 1: Naming and Growing Herbs
- Lesson 2: Pesto and Pasta
- Lesson 3: Sweet Strawberries
- Lesson 4: Strawberry Smoothies
- Lesson 5: Tasting and Growing Tomatoes
- Lesson 6: Cooking with Tomatoes
Unit 4: The Great Bread Bake Off
- Lesson 1: Warburtons and Market Research
- Lesson 2: Design Criteria and Shaping Rolls
- Lesson 3: Initial Designs
- Lesson 4: Final Designs
- Lesson 5: Making and Evaluating Bread
Unit 5: Global Foods
- Lesson 1: Where Ingredients Come From
- Lesson 2: Food Groups and Foods Around the World
- Lesson 3: A Cup of Rice
- Lesson 4: Mexican Food
- Lesson 5: Chinese Food
- Lesson 6: German Food
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