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.
100 Words is a spelling game for children in grades 1-6 (can also be used for lower ability middle and high schoolers). It is based on the top 600 words in Oxford’s Sight List. The object of the game is to obtain the highest score (100 points) by spelling the most number of words correctly. There are a variety of ways that the game can be played - as a single player using the Solitaire Game Card or in groups where each player has their own Score Card. Words increase in difficulty from the top down. Top words are worth one point each, increasing in value up to 6 points for bottom words. The only equipment needed to play the game is the stack of cards and a dice.
The file includes:
Instructions
Player score cards
Solitaire game card
17 pages of game cards to print, cut & laminate (or print directly onto cardstock & cut). There are 6 cards to a page and 100 cards overall for the game
6 blank cards for teachers to incorporate their own class word banks/spelling lists into the game
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Make learning about food poisoning bacteria FUN with these NOT WANTED posters. There’s 10 of them to display! Display them around the classroom to help students know where each horrendous foodborne illness pathogen hides, the symptoms if it catches you, and how to stop it spreading. There’s also a weird and creepy image for students to know what it will look like inside them if they catch it! The aim of these posters is to have students thinking about personal and environmental hygiene and food safety when in the kitchen so they don’t catch one of those deadly pathogens!
Enhance their understanding by having students use the information on the posters to help them write up the bacterial reports in the Foodborne Illness Pathogen Report Task
Along with hygiene, cleanliness and preventing cross-contamination when working in the kitchen; another essential aspect for students to understand is the danger zone and how long high-risk foods can be out safely in this temperature range before bacteria multiply to high enough levels for form a food poisoning risk.
This pack contains 3 important Food Safety posters, displaying the following concepts:
The Temperature Danger Zone - the specific temperatures that form the highest risk, where to keep hot foods hot and cold foods cold, and what happens to the bacteria in each temperature zone
The 2hr 4hr Rule - showing how long potentially high-risk foods can be out of their appropriate storage conditions and in the danger zone, and what needs to happen with the food at each stage
The Rate of Bacteria Replication and Growth - bacteria multiply every 20minutes! This poster shows students how many bacteria there would be every 20minutes until 4hrs and then after 6hrs, 9hrs and 12hrs. It shows the number if there was only one teeny tiny bacteria and if there was 1000 bacteria in our food before it was left out in the danger zone. This poster will get students thinking ‘I wonder how many bacteria are actually in my food before I start cooking with it…’
These posters can be laminated and displayed around the classroom or kitchen; or provided to students to assist with revision or developing an understanding of these important food safety concepts. A student who understands the importance of keeping food out of the danger zone is one who will keep their customers safe when working in the commercial kitchen.
Food poisoning is any illness caused by eating food or drink that is contaminated with certain types of bacteria, viruses or toxins and the symptoms can vary from mild to severe.
This task provides students with background information on food poisoning, how to tell if they have had food poisoning as well as steps to keep themselves safe from it. Students are then required to pick one of the food poisoning bacteria listed in the task and research the specific causes, symptoms and treatment for that particular food poisoning pathogen. There is a scaffold provided and students can present their newfound knowledge in the form of a fact sheet.
To finish off the task, there are four every day type scenarios provided. Students read through each scenario to identify the food safety and hygiene rules that have been broken and explain what each person in the scenario should have done instead to protect themselves from getting poisoned by their food.
This is a great task to do with junior Food Technology/Family and Consumer Science students as it breaks down the complicated food poisoning pathogens phonetically and has the background information in an easy to read manner.
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!
Sometimes students just don’t understand the importance of washing their hands to stop bacterial transfer and cross-contamination when cooking. This hand hygiene experiment is a great way to physically show them the outcomes. It only takes a couple of pieces of bread, some Ziploc/sealable bags, time and of course, the observation sheet!
This survival game scenarios workbook provides three scenarios - plane crash, yacht fire and stranded on the moon. Students need to work in groups to reach decisions on things such as what are the most important things needed for survival, who should be eligible for the lifeboat and of the undamaged items salvaged - which is the most important to keep and how will it help. Students must reach decisions collectively. There is a debrief extension to enhance student’s understanding of decision making skills and their role in the groups they are members in.
This task works well as an end of term filler, in conjunction with STEM lessons or as a challenge task. Answers are supplied.
Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points (HACCP) can be a complicated procedure for students to understand. This poster outlines the seven HACCP steps in an easy to understand manner with examples. Print the poster in A4 or A3 size and display around the kitchen or theory room for students to utilise when necessary. Once hazard identification has been completed the next step is to decide the Critical Control Points (CCP). This can be tricky, so included with the poster is a colourful CCP Decision Tree to help students work out if the hazards they’ve identified need a control measure to be applied in order to prevent, eliminate or reduce food safety hazards to an acceptable level.
100 Wordz Original
100 Words is a spelling game for children in grades 1-6 (can also be used for lower ability middle and high schoolers). It is based on the top 600 words in Oxford’s Sight List. The object of the game is to obtain the highest score (100 points) by spelling the most number of words correctly. There are a variety of ways that the game can be played - as a single player using the Solitaire Game Card or in groups where each player has their own Score Card. Words increase in difficulty from the top down. Top words are worth one point each, increasing in value up to 6 points for bottom words.
100 Wordz Expansion
The expansion pack incorporates the 601-1200 words from Oxford’s Sight List. As in the original game, words increase in difficulty from the top down. Top words are worth one point each, increasing in value up to 6 points for bottom words. The expansion pack can be played as a stand alone game to the original or incorporated into the original game cards to increase difficulty for students.
The only equipment needed to play the game is the stack of cards and a dice.
The file includes:
Instructions
Player score cards
Solitaire game card
17 pages of original game cards to print, cut & laminate (or print directly onto cardstock & cut). There are 6 cards to a page and 100 cards overall for the game
17 pages of expansion pack game cards to print, cut & laminate (or print directly onto cardstock & cut). There are 6 cards to a page and 100 cards overall for the game
12 blank cards for teachers to incorporate their own class word banks/spelling lists into the game
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The functional properties of food describes how ingredients behave during preparation and cooking; and how the finished product is affected in terms of how it looks, tastes and feels.
This Functional Properties of Food task consists of a match-up activity where students are required to match the term to its definition (cut and laminate for re-use or provide copies to students to take home), and an extension worksheet where students are required to include the definition but add examples of the functional property as well as the factors that affect it. This extension worksheet is a great optional activity for those more advanced students or can be used as a homework task.
This task is a great revision activity to determine how well students are understanding the content covered in class or used for revision in the lead up to exams and assessments. Answers are included.
Foodborne Illness or food poisoning is caused by bacteria and viruses getting into the food we eat. It can also be caused by toxins. This task provides students with a unique way to present their information - in a report card format. Students are asked to use the websites provided as well as their own research to locate the required information. For bacterial food poisoning, students need to identify the symptoms, typical food vehicles for transmission, treatment and prevention methods. For viral food poisoning, students are asked to use their research skills to find the missing information and for toxin related food poisoning, students are given all the identifying information except for the name and incubation periods. Depending on the level of your students, this task works well individually or for small groups and can be a wonderful revision activity for older students studying for their exams.
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.
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.
This THIS VS THAT quiz game is a great nutrition revision resource for senior Food/PE students or it can be a fun filler lesson for a junior class. Students are given the choice of two options along with a question such as which has more caffeine per 100ml? the Red Bull energy drink or the can of Coca-Cola. Students need to note down their answer on the worksheet along with their reasoning. Vote as a class and go with majority rules to click on the answer. Was the majority correct? Did they make a lucky guess or do they need to brush up on their nutrition understanding? Is their favourite food as healthy for them as they think it is? There are 20 questions comparing items from total fat content to energy, caffeine, carbohydrates, iron, protein and sugar. At the end of the quiz on the back of the worksheet, there are some extension questions for students to work through. The zip file contains the worksheet and the slide presentation in PPT and PDF format. All options in both the PPT and PDF are hyperlinked directly to the answers which makes it easy for the class to see how right or wrong they were!
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.
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.
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.
This activity is suitable for Hospitality, Family & Consumer Science, Food Technology and any other food related courses where students need to know the specifics of each method of cookery. Included in the pdf file is the name, definition, suitable foods, characteristics of foods cooked, associated culinary terms, utensils & equipment, common problems & solutions, procedure, effects on nutritive value, cooking times & temperatures and images for each of the 13 methods of cookery. Some methods have a bonus card of extra information for example: poaching liquids for the poaching method. There are 12 cards per method of cookery (total of 156 cards in the pdf). Cards can be printed in colour directly onto card stock, or printed on regular paper and laminated.
There are a couple of ways to play - jumble up the cards of two methods of cookery and have small groups of students sort out which information belongs to which method of cookery, gradually working up to more than two methods; hand out the jumbled cards to the two (or more) methods of cookery to the students and have them find their correct method of cookery name/term person; or blue-tack the name of each method to the board and have students sort through each of the jumbled cards to categorise the info cards into it’s correct method (this one can be made into group competition!). For more advanced revision, provide a complete set of cards to each small group (or individual) and have them match each card to its correct cookery method.
The methods of cookery included:
Boiling
Baking
Poaching
Braising
Deep frying
Shallow frying
Stir frying
Pan frying
Grilling
Roasting
Steaming
Stewing
Microwaving
Also available are a Methods of Cookery Definition Match-Up where students need to match the term to its definition and a Methods of Cookery Picture Match-Up where students need to match the term to its image.
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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
A collection of FUN literacy games that will get students excited to learn their spelling and vocabulary words! Using a specific list of terms you want your students to revise or using the BONUS included SPELL WARS cards, students play each other in Tic Tac Toe, Connect 4, Checkers, Word Battleship and Word Ladder. Students need to get their spelling word correct in order to add their tokens to the boards. Scrabble Spelling can be an individual lesson filler where students can practice their topic terms (and brings in some numeracy by having them calculate the total sum of each term using the values on each tile) or as a class competition where students have to spell the most words correctly/have the highest sum from a word to win. The BONUS Spell Wars cards contain 180 different words of varying difficulty that can be used with each game.
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