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). 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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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 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.
This Kitchen Equipment BINGO set of cards is a great start of the term, end of the term and all round revision activity to help reinforce kitchen terminology. It comes with a Bingo Caller Card (print 2 copies!) and 18 different student playing cards. Laminate for re-use.
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!
Food is one of the key aspects to understanding culture. It helps us identify where we are from and why and how we eat the foods we do. Today there are so many multicultural societies and foods that we have access to that have their origins in historical and traditional cultures. This can be contributed to cuisines borrowing traditional ingredients and methods from other cultures and incorporating them into our modern meals.
This task provides students with a list of traditional foods and ingredients categorised into staple & grains, fruit & vegetables, meat & proteins, spices & herbs, and beverages consumed by the AZTECs, Ancient Egyptians, Ancient Greeks and Ancient Roman peoples. Students select a range of items to create a 3 course meal that they would want to eat if they were transported back to that particular era. There is also a short video clip associated with each culture to help students understand the type and styles of food eaten. Students then need to justify why they chose the particular foods/ingredients they’ve put into their 3 course meal, explain how the style of food differs from ours nowadays as well as identify which of the foods/ingredients they would or could incorporate into their daily diets.
This is a great filler task for the end of a lesson or used as a homework task. Students can be tasked with creating a 3 course meal for each of the historical societies OR given the choice to select and complete a 3 course meal on one of the historical societies.
A major factor in any Vocational Education Training (VET) Hospitality course is the practical cooking component and the necessity to match appropriate recipes, skills and techniques to the Units of Competency covered throughout the course.
This is a tried and tested Hospitality cookery recipe book with well over 120 recipes matched to units for the full Hospitality Kitchen Operations training package. Each recipe provides:
a list of techniques covered
portions
clean up checklist
recommended garnishes
workflow templates
Recipes are designed for one to two students maximum to ensure each member of the class is attempting each of the skills and techniques required.
The introduction of the recipe book also supplies:
a recommended way ‘Set Up Your Workstation’ diagram
information on measuring
oven temperature conversions
description on the most effective way to clean and sanitise benchtops
precision cuts and practice template
meat doneness
as well as the contents pages which lists each recipe and the techniques covered
The back of the recipe book provides:
Hospitality MasterChef Challenge lesson
MasterChef score sheet
Practical course feedback survey
Sometimes understanding the task words / HSC key terms in questions and knowing exactly what is required to answer the question can be a tricky thing for students to grasp. This task uses confectionery, chocolate and/or lollies (images or actual products) to demonstrate this.
There are two components - an individual/pair task and a class task. You have the choice to use one or both tasks to develop their understanding of the terms. For the individual/pair task, provide students with a small chocolate bar each and use it to answer each of the questions, such as DESCRIBE the taste of the chocolate bar. Stimulus material incorporating the definitions of each task word, example ingredient lists, the process of making chocolate, descriptive sensory words and an article on the health implications of chocolate are provided to assist students with the more in depth questions that require additional research/knowledge.
For the class task, use and display the images on each slide of the PowerPoint presentation to complete the tasks, such as IDENTIFY this item and PROPOSE the introduction of this confectionery at the school canteen. There is a confectionery list and an estimated price list if you would prefer to use the actual products for this component.
Task Words/HSC Key Terms include:
identify
define
describe
explain
discuss
propose
justify
outline
compare
evaluate
account
recommend
analyse
Needing a great festive end of the term/end of the year (depending on which hemisphere you are in!) Christmas cooking practical? This is a tried and true, family tested recipe that works perfectly for a decorated Gingerbread House to take pride of place on the Christmas table. Included in this file is the gingerbread recipe and the templates for a MINI Gingerbread House, COSY Gingerbread Cottage and a LARGE Gingerbread House.
Keep the cooked gingerbread pieces in an airtight container for several days if needing to separate the practical into two or more sessions.
The best way for students to use these templates is to trace them onto baking paper before cutting them out in the gingerbread, or, print a class set and laminate them for use year after year.
Sometimes understanding the task words / HSC key terms in questions and knowing exactly what is required to answer the question can be a tricky thing for students to grasp. This task uses images of different sports to demonstrate to students the differences in the task words.
Each slide of the PowerPoint has a different sport image and different task word for students to write an answer to. For example ‘OUTLINE the fitness requirements to compete in this sport at Olympic level’ accompanied with the image of a swimmer. Task words increase in difficulty with the level of information required throughout the PPT. Display the presentation to class and work through it as a class, or print and provide as a handout to each student.
This can be a great task to introduce task words to students or as a revision activity to ensure students are grasping the concepts.
Task Words/HSC Key Terms include:
identify
define
describe
explain
discuss
propose
justify
outline
compare
evaluate
account
recommend
analyse
Have you seen an uptake of students consuming energy drinks as their main form of everyday beverage? The energy drink market has seen unprecedented growth over the last 10 years and their popularity is continuing to grow, especially in our youth and adolescents.
While there may be some positives to consuming the occasional energy drink, there are many short and long term health effects including addiction, anxiety, dehydration, fertility and heart issues.
This poster provides an easy to read outline of some of the most major impacts energy drinks have on the human body. It includes the definition of an energy drink (in case your students like to argue why their energy drink isn’t an energy drink or isn’t bad for them!) as well as a QR code students can scan to view a cool, short, free YouTube video on ‘What if you only drank energy drinks?’ by the team from AsapScience whose aim is to make science make sense.
The inspiration behind the creation of this poster came when one of my 15 year old students had a full-on meltdown and screamed it was the only thing she has to drink today and I was stopping her from hydrating (conveniently forgetting the cool filtered bubblers outside and the fact she’d just come in from break) because I asked her to tip her (just opened) large can of V down the sink because energy drinks are banned at our school (which she already knew!).
For our students to live long and happy lives, we need to help them understand the importance of looking after their bodies (including what they put into it), and minimising their intake of energy drinks is one aspect we can help educate them on.
In the Stage 5 Australian/NSW curriculum, Child Studies explores the broad range of social, environmental, genetic and cultural factors that influence prenatal development and a child’s sense of wellbeing and belonging between 0 and 8 years of age. The Play and the Developing Child unit within the Child Studies subject has students investigating and experiencing different types of play-based learning which contribute to the positive development of children. They assess a range of play choices, environments and activities in terms of learning, suitability, sustainability and safety.
This is a complete unit of work and includes:
a Teaching & Learning Program outlining the outcomes students aim to achieve, teaching and learning activities matched to the student workbook and including all website links and YouTube video links used, resources needed as well as space for teacher registration
Student Workbook which provides all the learning materials identified within the teaching program
Differentiated Extension Task for students who are more advanced in the subject (could also be used as a homework task)
Assessment Task to provide the teacher with a summative mark and evaluation of student learning at the end of the unit. This assessment task has students create a presentation on their favourite childhood toy.
There is also a Life Skills assessment task for Support students who are not capable of attempting components of the mainstream assessment task. This task has students produce ‘rules’ for a range of games they could play with children in an early childhood setting
Assessment Task Register so teachers know which students have been given the assessment task and who was away/need to catch up
*The Teaching & Learning Program, Assessment Tasks and Assessment Task Register are provided in an editable MS Word/Google Docs format
*The Student Workbook and Differentiated Assessment Task is provided in PDF format
These resources are provided in a zipped folder. To access them, you will need to unzip the folder once it has been downloaded to your computer.
One of the most important aspects of working in any kitchen is knowing how to reduce waste because not only does it help the profit margin but it also helps the environment.
This comprehension task takes an article from a Hospitality industry magazine and demonstrates how several Australian pioneering chefs are leading the way for reducing food waste in their restaurants. This task will help students develop their understanding of the Source and Use Information on the Hospitality Industry unit of competency.
This is a great homework task after a sustainability lesson or as part of a casual/relief lesson.