Are you teaching Family Consumer Science this school year and need curriculum ideas? Check out our fun and engaging FCS resources by topic to help make this school year the best yet!
Culinary Arts or Foods Resources
Let our ready-to-use culinary activities get your students ready to cook. Here are some of our most popular culinary arts resources in our store including some freebies!
1- Cooking Challenges
- Free Gourmet Brownie Challenge– Students learn about the history of brownies and brainstorm ways to make brownies “gourmet”. You can have them use a box of brownies or make brownies from scratch, depending on their level and your budget! Either way, this is a fun way to get students working together and baking. You can even tie in food plating techniques to this lesson!
- Gourmet Ramen Challenge– Students get a basic package of ramen noodles and make something unique and tasty! With all the materials you need to teach the challenge, you will love this resource!
- Mac and Cheese Challenge– Give students either a box of packaged mac and cheese or have them make it from scratch. Students love learning about the history of mac and cheese and brainstorming ways to make it gourmet. The resource also includes a scoring card and rubric!
Want more food challenges? Check out our Food Challenges Bundle, which includes 10 challenges to make your life easier! Read more about how we set up our cooking challenges here!
2- Culinary Arts Units
Wether you teach a family consumer science foods class, Prostart or culinary arts, these units will be a life saver for you!
The units come in both print and Google versions and include everything you need to teach a culinary unit including:
- Editable Lesson Plans
- Bell Ringers
- Slideshows
- Guided Notes
- Questions
- Quizzes
- Games
- and more!
Food Safety Unit
The Food Safety Unit includes up-to-date information that follows Prostart and National Family Consumer Science standards.
Cooking Methods Unit
Teaching about cooking methods can be a bit dry. Our cooking methods unit includes engaging activities such as an interactive notebook, jeopardy game, review activity and more!
Kitchen Equipment Unit
With lesson plans, assessments, a webquest, kitchen tools race and more, this kitchen equipment unit has everything you need to teach the important kitchen tools!
Full Culinary Arts Curriculum
Want all of the units at your fingertips? Take a look at our full culinary arts curriculum for an entire school year. Need just a semester? We have that, too! This user-friendly curriculum takes the guesswork out of planning.
Child Development Resources
Do you need family consumer science lessons for a high school child development course? From games to slideshows, we have you covered with no-prep activities for your FCS classes!
1- Child Development Games
Escape Rooms
This Babysitter Safety escape room has students moving through clues in a Google Form to crack the codes all about babysitting safety.
Child Development Digital Escape Room– This fun child development lesson includes 8 clues for students to decode about:
- Child development theorists
- Gross motor and fine motor skills
- Piaget’s four stages of cognitive development
- Emotional developmental stages throughout childhood
- Social developmental stages
- Kohlberg’s moral developmental stages
- Biological, environmental, and physical factors influencing development
It comes in both Print and Google Forms so that you can decide how to assign!
Child Development BINGO Game
This free child development activity has students use a list of child development vocabulary to complete a BINGO board. The teacher draws the terms as students cross off each one to try to get BINGO.
Child Development Board Game
Have students play this engaging child development board game in small groups to review important vocabulary such as child development theorists, nature vs. nurture, adolescence, stages of development, parenting styles, and more. A slideshow is included to help review the material before the students play.
Career Exploration Activities
Career exploration is a fun class or topic to teach high school students. There are many possibilities for teaching about careers, including projects, research, class visitors, games, and more. Here are a few of our favorites.
Career Exploration Bell Ringer Journal–
Starting class daily with a career exploration bell ringer journal can get students thinking about their future and possible careers. With a prompt a day for 180 days, this bell ringer journal is available in print and Google! Questions include cool job facts, reflection questions, career spotlights about real careers and career pathways, workplace professionalism, resume writing, and more.
Workplace Professionalism Digital Escape Room–
Digital escape rooms are an engaging way to get your students interacting with material. Just assign the Google Form and they will move through the clues independently! Google Forms are self-correcting so it is a great way to give you a break in the classroom. Read more about our free career exploration activities!
This workplace professionalism activity includes lessons on punctuality, etiquette and more.
Learn more about our family consumer science lesson plans and activities at www.twinsandteaching.com!
