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Specialising in Technological and Applied Studies, with a focus on Food Technology, Hospitality and Textiles, all resources have been tried and tested in my classroom over the past 10 years. I have also tutored numerous students in a wide range of subjects and have developed a range of resources to assist in their learning. Any resource that I have created that has helped me help my students will be added to my shop so that I can help you, help your students.

Specialising in Technological and Applied Studies, with a focus on Food Technology, Hospitality and Textiles, all resources have been tried and tested in my classroom over the past 10 years. I have also tutored numerous students in a wide range of subjects and have developed a range of resources to assist in their learning. Any resource that I have created that has helped me help my students will be added to my shop so that I can help you, help your students.
Kitchen Equipment Scavenger Hunt
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Kitchen Equipment Scavenger Hunt

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Needing a fun way to introduce your class to the kitchen? This Kitchen Equipment Scavenger Hunt is designed for middle and high school foods courses to familiarize students with the different utensils and equipment used in the kitchen. Students have to solve the clue, identify the equipment and search the kitchen to find where it’s stored. It’s a great way to get students knowing where everything is before they get to cook. This activity can be completed by individual students or in groups for a fun competition. The first group/person to get everything correct wins a prize!
Cookin' Food Card Game
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Cookin' Food Card Game

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Getting towards the end of the week, term, semester, year and needing a fun education filler to fill the time or calm the class? Use this Cookin’ Food card game to have students compete against each other in groups of 4-8 players. The first player to get all their ingredient cards to make their menu wins the game; but be careful of the rotten egg! Whoever draws the rotten egg card loses all their ingredient cards and starts again. There’s 16 menu cards, 8 rotten egg cards and a whole heap of ingredient cards to sort through. There’s even extra blank menu cards to add local or loved recipes into the game as well as blank ingredient cards to ensure students have the opportunity to draw ingredients from the added in recipes. Make it harder by having less players but each player needing to collect ingredients for 2 or more menu items. Print multiple copies of the game for larger classes. Suitable for a range of ages. Note: Print back to back and flip on short side. Print on white paper and laminate for protection or print directly onto white card
Fashion Math: Circular Skirts
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Fashion Math: Circular Skirts

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This textiles resource helps students understand how math concepts are related to real life. Students need to read through the information on circular skirts, sketch the pattern pieces and calculate the radius for task 1 & 2. Task 3 requires students to calculate bolts of fabric and Task 4 brings in their textiles designing skills. This worksheet is perfect for numeracy lessons, end of term lessons, as filler activities, no device/laptop lessons or for a casual/relief teacher lesson. Answer key is included.
Textiles Literacy Activities
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Textiles Literacy Activities

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These literacy activities are based around a textiles theme. There are a range of tasks including reading and comprehension, cloze passages, true/false, make words from words, multiple choice and short answer questions, a creative writing prompt and an introduction to ALARM scaffold. These worksheets are perfect for literacy lessons, end of term lessons, as filler activities, no device/laptop lessons or for a casual/relief teacher lesson. After purchase, the compressed zip folder just needs to be downloaded and extracted to access all 6 worksheets.
Kitchen Tips Posters and Practical Checklists
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Kitchen Tips Posters and Practical Checklists

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This collection contains a range of Kitchen Tips posters to display around the practical cookery room. Designed for any year or stage, they provide an easy and colourful way for students to understand: General rules for cooking lessons in the school kitchen Step-by-step method for hand washing The colours of the chopping boards and the types of foods appropriate for each colour Step-by-step method for cleaning up towards the end of the lesson Types of shoes that can and can’t be worn in the cooking rooms for practical lessons Also included is a checklist/mark sheet for use during practical cookery lessons that can help teachers record which students are consistently or inconsistently applying PPE, safe work practices, hygienic work practices, time management, teamwork and plating (or bringing a container for their food) to their cooking lessons. A Cleaning Up (weekly and class group allocations) charts have also been incorporated to provide teachers with an easy way to manage students in their cleaning up processes. The Class Group Allocations chart allows teachers to identify which students are washing up, drying up and storing the used equipment each lesson. While the Individual Group Allocations chart allows students to identify who in their groups will be washing, drying and storing each week.
Read a Recipe
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Read a Recipe

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Wanting to make sure your students fully understand the recipe and know how to read it properly? This Reading A Recipe worksheet is perfect as a revision exercise or as a starter activity leading into their first recipe demonstration or practical lesson. Students are provided with an ‘easy brownie’ recipe that they use to answer questions on the components of a recipe, equipment requirements, recipe abbreviations, vocabulary and comprehension. To include a more hands-on approach, students or the teacher can be cooking the ‘easy brownies’ to provide visual assistance for the worksheet responses. The brownies make a tasty reward for those that participate and complete the worksheet!
Textiles Equipment Match-Up Memory Cards
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Textiles Equipment Match-Up Memory Cards

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Practice recognizing the names and the types of equipment used in textiles and sewing rooms. There are 18 pairs of game cards that require students to match the name of the equipment to its image. Students can play MEMORY or SNAP as a lesson plenary, or during a lesson as a MATCH-UP task to glue into workbooks.
Subject Descriptor Leaflets: Home Ec
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Subject Descriptor Leaflets: Home Ec

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Subject descriptor leaflets for Stage 4 Technology Mandatory - Food & Agriculture and Textiles, Stage 5 Food Technology, Stage 5 Child Studies, Stage 6 Exploring Early Childhood, Stage 6 Food Technology and Stage 6 VET Hospitality. Each leaflet explains the focus of the course, identifies the units to be studied, the ATAR implications for the Stage 6 subjects and whether the course has a practical component. These leaflets are perfect for student subject selection information sessions.
WHS Food Safety SNAP! Activity and Worksheet
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WHS Food Safety SNAP! Activity and Worksheet

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Use this WHS Food Safety Snap! resource to help your students learn about or revise hazards in the kitchen. Specially designed for students in Food Technology, Hospitality and Family & Consumer Science, it applies the fast-paced, attention-grabbing mechanics of the traditional ‘SNAP’ card game but with a focus on safety within the cooking environment. Pack includes: *** 24 Safety Snap Cards:** Simple print these cards twice to create a full deck of 48 cards, each is adorned with safety-related images and facts. *** 1xstudent worksheet: **pair the game with this worksheet, encouraging students to provide reasoning behind the features of kitchen safety How to Play: 1.Group Up - The game is best played in groups of 4. Distribute the deck evenly among players 2.Card Flip - Players start with their decks face down and place cards into a central pile, without peeking at them first. 3.Snap to Win - When a card placed matches the one directly beneath it, the fastest to yell ‘SNAP!’ wins that round and takes the pile. 4.Game Over - Play until no cards are left. The winner is the one with the most cards.
Vegetable Precision Cuts Poster
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Vegetable Precision Cuts Poster

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Showcasing seven essential precision cuts used in the culinary world, this poster is a must-have for every aspiring chef and food tech student. This eye-catching colour poster can be printed A3 or A4, and features 7 visually engaging examples of precision cuts: Jardiniere Julienne Brunoise Macedoine Chiffonade Paysanne Mirepoix It includes a handy written description which details the appearance and dimensions each cut should have. Making it an invaluable visual aid that students can easily refer to while studying or engaging in hands-on practical kitchen experiences.
How long does it take to burn off your fav food? QUIZ
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How long does it take to burn off your fav food? QUIZ

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Fast food and processed foods can be high in kilojoules (energy) and are creeping more and more into our daily diets. Challenge your students ideas about how long it really takes to burn off all that extra energy they consume. Perfect for a nutrition/sport intro or plenary, and as an individual or group challenge, this ‘How long does it take to burn off your favourite foods?’ QUIZ has a range of questions that asks them to guess how many minutes, hours, burpees, star jumps, running, boxing etc. is needed to burn off the energy of these 10 popular foods.
A Stitch in Time Textiles QUIZ
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A Stitch in Time Textiles QUIZ

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This Stitch in Time quiz is a great introduction to textiles terminology. Challenge your students previous knowledge of sewing and textiles at the start of the term and see how much they have learnt by the end of the term by repeating the quiz. Can be used as an individual or group activity. There are 20 questions that include dyeing methods, stitch types, fabric names, sewing machine anatomy, tools etc. Answers are included, as is a student answer page.
Vegetable Precision Cuts Worksheet
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Vegetable Precision Cuts Worksheet

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Practice the seven essential precision cuts used in the culinary world. This worksheet is a must-have for every aspiring chef and food tech student. Precision cuts to practice and assemble on the worksheet include: Jardiniere Julienne Brunoise Macedoine Chiffonade Paysanne Mirepoix Pair it with the Vegetable Precision Cuts Poster which includes the written descriptions detailing the appearance and dimensions each cut should have. What better way to help practice the required cut proportions!
Blank BINGO Board
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Blank BINGO Board

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A blank BINGO card perfect for vocabulary revision! Use it to introduce a topic or as a plenary to finish a lesson. It can be used for a range of subjects but this Bingo board is perfectly suited to Food Technology, Textiles Technology and Family and Consumer Science classes. Included is a list of food, textiles and safety related words for a quick subject related game.
Gumnut Babies Colouring pages
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Gumnut Babies Colouring pages

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These cute Gumnuts Babies colouring pages are perfect for a chilled end of the week lesson or for keeping students hands busy while watching a video. While used mainly for Family & Consumer Science or Child Studies lessons, these colouring pages could be used for a variety of purposes including mindfulness activities.
Culinary Math Booklet
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Culinary Math Booklet

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Revise fundamental math calculations through this Culinary Math booklet. There are 10 pages of questions and tasks which cover measurement, scaling, equipment, ingredient calculations, yields, conversion factors and recipe interpretation and comprehension. Plus Teacher answers so this booklet can be used as a standalone revision or homework task, teacher absentee lesson or as a kitchen numeracy/literacy lesson.
No Practical Kitchen Workbook
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No Practical Kitchen Workbook

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Have a few students forget to bring their kitchen safety shoes or uniform for cooking lessons? Or have some rowdy students who need some extra revision before being allowed to participate in any more of the cooking practicals? This No Prac Kitchen Workbook provides students with a variety of written theory activities ranging from kitchen equipment and safety to healthy eating and reading recipes. There’s a teacher sign off and progress record for students to fill in at the end of each lesson to easily see how solidly they worked during lesson. This booklet could also be used as a homework or revision booklet to help students consolidate their knowledge and understanding of correct kitchen procedures.
Cooking Practical Tray/Trolley Tags
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Cooking Practical Tray/Trolley Tags

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Organise your cool room or fridge/freezer with these great tray or trolley tags. It covers everything you or your Food Prep Assistant needs to know to have the ingredient trays or trolleys set up and ready to go for each recipe for each class. These tags cover: day of the week, lesson period required, whether your are DEMonstrating the recipe or your students are completing their PRACtical, teacher name, class name and even space for the recipe name or specific notes/additions required. Particularly useful if you or your Food Prep Assistant has a lot of classes/recipes/ingredients to sort and set up over the week. The tags can also be used if you have your students bringing in their own ingredients - just get them to set their ingredients up on their own tray or trolley and add their name, class, lesson, day and recipe. It makes it super easy to see when and who the ingredients are being used for!
Kitchen Equipment Match-Up Memory Cards
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Kitchen Equipment Match-Up Memory Cards

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Get students practising and recognizing the names and types of equipment used in kitchen and cooking rooms. There are 24 pairs of game cards that require students to match the name of the equipment to its image. Students can play MEMORY or SNAP as a lesson plenary, or during a lesson as a MATCH-UP task to glue into workbooks.
Chef Research & Presentation Project
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Chef Research & Presentation Project

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The culinary industry wouldn’t be what it is today without the ideas and inspirations of the vast array of chefs who have created edible masterpieces and experiences. This research task will help students discover the lives and inspirations behind these influencers and show their understanding in an oral and written presentation style format. Great as a filler lesson towards the end of the term, an introduction for a term of multicultural foods or set the research component for when the regular teacher is absent and the oral component for later. This task provides lots of examples of chefs students can choose to research, a range of questions they need to answer within their research, a score/marking form as well as an example written project that can be displayed to assist with student understanding. This is one of my go to lessons to keep students engaged!