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Culinary Creations With Chef Scottie: Ages 7-12 (Part 1)
Hello, and welcome to Culinary Creations! This class will offer your 7-12 year-old a glorious opportunity to spend time in the kitchen while learning not only valuable life skills, but also sharpening math, literacy, science and art acuity.
Class Experience
Beginner - Intermediate Level
Hello, and welcome to Culinary Creations! This class will offer your 7-12 year-old a glorious opportunity to spend time in the kitchen while learning not only valuable life skills, but also sharpening math, literacy, science and art acuity. From kitchen familiarization and safety to designing and implementing their own recipes, learners will build confidence and creativity while having a blast! This class will be taught both live and asynchronously in my humble home kitchen. Basic cooking...
4 lessons//4 Weeks
Week 1Lesson 1The 4 Levels of…The same dish can look very different based on who is cooking it. A beginning home cook’s version of scrambled eggs might be very different from a professional chef’s. In this lesson, you’ll examine how a dish can be prepared differently through the use of different ingredients, techniques, and tools. You’ll then plan some goals and map out what success looks like for you.Week 2Lesson 2Knife SafetyDo you want to learn and practice knife skills to improve your cooking? The first step towards that is learning how to work with knives safely. This lesson will explain a few important practices that help keep you safe as you develop and practice your skills. You’ll watch a short video and then answer a few questions about what you learned in the video. Then you’ll practice what you’ve learned and prepare a simple snack of cut vegetables.Week 3Lesson 3How to Read a RecipeHave you ever read a recipe only to still not know where to start? Have you ever gotten halfway through cooking something and realized you missed a key step? These are common setbacks in the kitchen that can be avoided with purposeful recipe reading. This activity will help you learn how to read a recipe like a professional chef!Week 4Lesson 4What is Flavor?What is taste? What is flavor? There are five essential tastes along with countless more smells that combine to make flavors. Investigating how foods complement each other is important to understanding flavor. Foods have distinct tastes and when those tastes are combined with other tastes, different flavors are created. In this lesson, you will explore the five tastes and learn about the relationship between taste and flavor.
- • Understand the difference between precise recipes and flexible recipes • Understand how to hold a knife safely • Practice critical thinking skills by analyzing recipes • Practice reflective thinking and responding • Know the basic components of flavor
Assessment
Frequency: Available upon requestDetails: Formative assessments allow you to get a sense of what the learner is experiencing. Each lesson contains reflection questions for learners to answer. These reflections will serve as the learner’s formative assessments and evidence of student work.reflection activities are designed with the Universal Design for learning.
Cooking space should be equipped with basic supplies such as pots, pans, plates, cutlery, cutting surfaces and bowls.
Cooking space should be equipped with basic supplies such as pots, pans, plates, cutlery, cutting surfaces and bowls. Ingredients are listed in the beginning of every lesson, as well as down below. Ingredients: -Greens of your choice -Spice/second ingredient of your choice -Bell pepper -Cucumber -Celery Curriculum will be provided!
Use of heat, handling knives and other sharp objects.
Joined May, 2024
Hi there! My name is Scottie and I am so excited to be here in this learning community! From teaching preschool phonics to teaching 3rd grade art, I find magic in the everyday world of education. I thrive in dynamic environments, and am always...
Self-Paced Class
$12
weekly or $45 for all content4 pre-recorded lessons
4 weeks of teacher support
Choose your start date
1 year of access to the content
Ages: 7-12
