FACS – 7th grade
This course provides students the opportunity to learn essential life skills. It allows them to develop skills in food and nutrition, kitchen safety, teamwork and leadership skills, cooking terms, basic measuring abbreviations and equivalents, interpreting and using recipes, cultural influences on food choices, techniques and equipment for preparing and serving foods, personal responsibility, and job-related tasks.
ESSENTIAL LEARNINGS
Course Length: 12 Weeks |
Preparing and Serving Food (8 weeks)
- Identify and model basic kitchen safety procedures.
- Recognize cooking utensils and cookware and describe their uses.
- Differentiate and demonstrate correct measuring procedures for dry, liquid, and solid ingredients.
- Describe and demonstrate basic mixing and cooking techniques.
- Accurately compute equivalent measures to produce a quality product.
Nutrition (1 week)
- Describe the food groups in the Food Guide Pyramid, and list recommended servings for their age group.
Teamwork and Leadership (ongoing)
- Prepare a work plan for a selected recipe and follow correct lab procedures.
Food Safety and Sanitation (½ week)
- Relate food preparation, food storage, and dishwashing techniques to food safety.
Technology (2½ weeks)
- Apply technology for research on another culture and produce a power point presentation.
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