This checklist details general equipment and bulk ingredients for the recipes featured in Cooking with Curiosity. See recipes (listed below) for detailed ingredient lists.
Students will learn the steps of making salsa by preparing salsa on will also explore their kitchen classrooms and the fruits of the late summer harvest.
Students will learn to make scrambled eggs and vegetable dumplings in the Chinese tradition and discuss the foods of spring, especially protein-rich foods from animals and plants.
Students will learn to make a simple roasted potato and cauliflower dish. They will play a game in which they compare and contrast many different kitchen and food objects based upon size, plant part, volume, and more.
The attached resources provide a structure for creating original lessons as well as thinking critically about current lessons and how effective they are at meeting various learning goals.
In this 8th grade science lesson, students prepare Kale Pesto and Ricotta Cheese, and visit the pH Lab where they use cabbage juice as an indicator to test the pH of common kitchen ingredients and products.
The food choice consideration cards are one of the resources we use in our 8th grade Debate Plate lesson series to prompt self-reflection, critical thought and meaningful conversations. They are small, colorful cards that have a consideration someone might have when choosing what to eat (ex.
Sharing a food memory is an activity 6th graders participate in during their very first kitchen lesson. Students complete the food memory worksheet (below) in their homerooms before coming for their first kitchen class.
Knife skills are at the foundation of every students’ experience in the Edible Schoolyard kitchen classroom. Before students touch knives in the kitchen, they participate in a kitchen orientation. This orientation lays the foundation for safely learning and practicing knife skills.
We use Reflection Cards with our students to prompt reflection and self-evaluation on skills, norms, and behaviors that are important in the kitchen and garden classrooms.
