Cooking was the key to my students' hearts from the very start. Back in my first year of teaching, we used to cook every single week...sometimes multiple times a week. Sure, I spent a lot of my own money buying materials, but when I had a group of students who could not sit together for longer than 1 minute for any typical "academic" task, I had to explore creative options to teach them in a way that was motivating! Today's post is meant to describe not only some of the skills you can target during a cooking lesson, but also to give you a variety of ideas/resources for implementing cooking in your classroom.
Skills to Target During Cooking Lessons
We used cooking activities to practice COMMUNICATION. I created communication boards so my students could request the necessary ingredients and supplies to complete the recipes.