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.
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.
Please Note: After purchase you will need to download the ZIP folder and extract all for access to all the documents.
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.
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
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.
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.
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!
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.
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!
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.
Be fully prepared for your parent teacher interviews by using this Conference template. Simply fill in how well the student follows directions, behaves, completes classwork, their latest assessment results and any other comments their parent needs to know. Keep the record of your parent interview in your class monitoring folder or photocopy and give the parent a copy to take home!
Restricted is a fun, fast-paced game where students must try to describe the AUSTRALIAN ANIMALS to their teammates without using the name, or words on the card (similar to Taboo).
Basic Rules:
Teams have 2 minutes to guess as many animals from the clues given to them as they can. The clue giver shuffles the cards and draws the top card. The opposing team sets a timer for 2 minutes. The clue giver gives as many words and phrases as they can think of - that don’t include the Restricted words! to help their teammates guess the animal. If the teammates guess correctly within the time frame, they get a point, and the clue giver draws another card. Play continues until the timer runs out. There is no penalty for incorrect guesses. After the 2 minutes, the opposing team plays. The first team to 10 points wins
In the download, you receive:
How to play instructions
34 pages that contain 40 playing cards for you to print on card-stock and cut out
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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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This activity is suitable for Hospitality, Family & Consumer Science, Food Technology and any other food related courses where students need to know the different method of cookery. Included in the pdf file is the instructions, name and image for each of the 13 methods of cookery. Cards can be printed in colour directly onto card stock, or printed on regular paper and laminated. To play: hand out the images and terms to the students and have them find their match. As a revision activity, pass out a complete set of cards to each small group or individual and have them match the term/name of the method of cookery to its image.
The methods of cookery included:
Boiling
Baking
Poaching
Braising
Deep frying
Shallow frying
Stir frying
Pan frying
Grilling
Roasting
Steaming
Stewing
Microwaving
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This activity is suitable for Hospitality, Family & Consumer Science, Food Technology and any other food related courses where students need to know the definitions of each method of cookery. Included in the pdf file is the instructions, name and definition for each of the 13 methods of cookery. Cards can be printed in colour directly onto card stock, or printed on regular paper and laminated. To play: hand out the definitions and terms to the students and have them find their match. As a revision activity, pass out a complete set of cards to each small group or individual and have them match the term/name of the method of cookery to its correct definition.
The methods of cookery included:
Boiling
Baking
Poaching
Braising
Deep frying
Shallow frying
Stir frying
Pan frying
Grilling
Roasting
Steaming
Stewing
Microwaving
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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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100 Words is a spelling game for children in grades 1-6 (can also be used for lower ability middle and high schoolers). This 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 only equipment needed to play the game is the stack of cards and a dice. 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 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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This Prepare & Serve Espresso Coffee Complete Unit includes everything needed to engage students in hands-on espresso coffee making activities. Covering all components of the Vocational Espresso Coffee unit of competency, there are a range of activities covering setting up a coffee workstation, selecting and grinding coffee beans, milk texturing, advising customers, taking orders and cleaning espresso equipment. Students will need access to an espresso coffee machine and coffee bean grinder for the practical tasks.
Included in this file:
Unit program
Learning intentions & success criteria posters for each component
Pre/post test that can also be used for the quiz assessment
Coffee machine & grinder anatomy worksheets
Coffee recipe posters
SNAP! and Memory game cards
Cloze passages
Job lists and issues flowcharts
Assessment observation checklist and portfolio example
Practical feedback form & end of unit evaluation
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Kitchen math can be a challenge but is so important to understand for menu costing and budgeting. This handy worksheet provides the formula to help students cost out individual ingredients, full recipes and per portion. They put their new found knowledge to the test by costing two recipes. The simple formula they learn through this handout can be used with any and every recipe they need to cost out.
Help students understand how to increase and decrease the quantities of ingredients in a recipe. This worksheet provides the step-by-step instructions and formula to work out conversion factors, an example recipe conversion from 4 to 25 serves and information on converting measuring spoon & cup measurements to weight. Students then test our their new found knowledge with a Choc Chip Biscuit recipe. Great for introducing students to recipe modifications and batch-ups for catering events.
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
Please leave a review after purchase.