Food and Cooking Career Exploration Activities Bundle | FCS

Take the guess work out of planning your cooking career exploration unit. This unit comes with a wide range of food and cooking career lesson options to help build essential skills and knowledge for your students.

1. Food and Cooking Career Exploration: Career Matching

Students will match 15 different Food and Cooking careers with their correct

description. This is a great opportunity to watch your high school students gain

valuable career insight and reflect on their own interests and values to see which career is a true fit for them.

2. Team building Pizza Making Activity

This engaging and hands-on lesson plan, students will embark on a two-day

culinary adventure that not only teaches them how to make delicious pizza but

also helps them cultivate essential professional skills. Through teamwork,

problem-solving, work ethic, and critical thinking, students will not only learn to create a delicious pizza but also how to handle unexpected challenges in the

kitchen using scenario cards. This lesson plan is designed to not only satisfy their taste buds but also master their personal and professional growth.

3. Guest Speaker

Simplify your life with this no prep Food and Culinary Guest Speaker Form. This

product includes a guest speaker invite and thank you letter, both of which are

editable. It also includes a worksheet for students to fill out during the speaker’s presentation.

4. Speed Dating

Career speed dating is a fun and exciting way to introduce your students to a

variety of culinary careers. Partner the students up and watch them read off

career descriptions and record questions they have. After a few short minutes, it is time to switch partners and watch them learn about a new career. This lesson has all printed materials so you can just print, copy, and go, go, go!

5. Career Mood Board

Let students demonstrate the cooking and culinary career of their dreams by

creating a career mood board! Their career mood board will show off the career they hope to have in the future and the steps they will take to get there. The lesson involves a variety of valuable, printable resources, such as a rubric, so that the hard details are done for you. Everyone will be in the best MOOD enjoying this easy prep lesson!

6. Entrepreneur Research Project

Invite students to research an entrepreneur in the food and cooking industry to

help them see how they can start on a path to success. Through this lesson,

students are making real-world connections, conducting research, and enhancing their technology skills by making a slideshow of the information they gathered.

This no prep food and cooking career unit offers a variety of lesson to choose from to enhance student learning. Students will gain valuable skills and knowledge that will be essential for their future careers. These activities, will help students engage and inspire students to pursue a career in the food and cooking world.

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