Public Health Association of BC

Learning activities for the kitchen

Inviting your class into the kitchen takes some extra time to prepare, but once routines are established, cooking can be the highlight of the week for some students. Learning life skills like how to use a knife, bake healthy snacks, and gain confidence in the kitchen is important for anyone to learn…let alone teaching the curriculum and bringing fractions to life with measuring cups!

Some ideas include:

  • Making baked goods and selling them at a school bake sale
  • Preserving your school garden harvest by freezing
  • Harvest fresh greens from your school garden and making fresh salads
  • Visiting the local farmers’ market and creating a meal with produce purchased there
  • Preparing fresh smoothies and offering them as breakfast or snack
  • Hosting a regular school salad bar
  • Dehydrating apples and offering them as snacks to students in your class

 

Activity and Resource List

Name
Suggested Grade Level
Description
Developed by
K-4
Lesson plan for learning knife skills, including safety and proper hand position.
4-7
Lesson plan for creating edible art made from fruits, vegetables and other ingredients. 
K-7
Kid-friendly and tested recipes with lesson plans and extensions.
K-7
Lesson plans with recipes, extensions and guidelines for dehydrating fruit, vegetables and herbs with kids.
K-7
Lesson plans with recipes, extensions and guidelines for freezing fruit with kids.
K-12
A great collection of Fresh Roots-tested, kid-approved recipes.
K-12
Cookbook designed to invigorate school meal programs and inspire chefs to get creative in the kitchen. Features recipes from BC schools. 
F2SBC
2-8
Activity to compare how yeast and baking soda work as leaveners.

 

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