Thomson Delmar Learning
Cooking Lesson Plans
Get cooking with some preschool and kindergarten-based cooking lesson plans. As young cooks follow the directions on the recipes, they practice hand-eye coordination, measurement, counting, and nutritional eating.
Julie Negrin
How to Teach Cooking to Kids
Youngsters are more likely to eat something if they've worked hard to make it! Plan a cooking class with an e-booklet from Julie Negrin, author of Easy Meals to Cook With Kids. It includes what you should consider about your...
Nemours KidsHealth
Food and Cooking Safety: Grades 3-5
In lesson one, scholars read articles, brainstorm a list of tips, then vote on the most important ones. Using those tips, the class creates a mural detailing them with magazine cutouts. Lesson two challenges pupils to cook a dish at home...
Washington State Department of Health
Let's Cook!
Recipes, tasting activities, images of fruits and veggies, fun food facts... you name it, this resource has it! Your class will be cooking up wonderful dishes in no time with these materials. Included here are recipes, handouts,...
Curated OER
Home Living/ Daily Living: Cooking Mastery
Learning to cook, follow directions, and presenting information are skills every body needs to know. Learners complete a recipe-in-a-jar activity to hone these life skills. They follow the directions, choose and use correct measurement...
Curated OER
Cooking Up Something Good
Students compare and convert units of measurement within the United States customary system and within the metric system by baking cookies. Students discuss how to double the cookie recipe, how to make only half of the recipe, and how to...
Cooking Matters
Cooking Matters: For Chefs and Kids
Get your scholars cooking with a collection of activities that pairs the class to a community chef, promotes healthy snacking and drinking, and explores fruits and vegetables. Lower elementary learners...
Curated OER
Cooking Your Favorite Meal - Vocabulary and Discussion Lesson for English Students of All Ages
Here is a great idea that incorporates cooking, recipe reading, content specific vocabulary, and culture. The class defines cooking related vocabulary, discusses the food they eat, then develop a recipe of their own. This is a great...
Curated OER
Recipe Conversions-Enrichment Worksheet
A recipe for Chocolate Chewies, a no-bake cookie, is provided, but the ingredients are not written in useable amounts. Your cooking class must first convert them into useable amounts before preparing the treat. The final product acts as...
Mascil Project
Molecular Gastronomy - Science in the Kitchen
Some say cooking is an art—and a science! Scholars scope out the savory subject of molecular gastronomy with a series of related activities. The teacher's guide contains printable worksheets and helpful tips for implementing the lesson.
Curated OER
Measurement and Conversion of Units in a Recipe
In a cross-curricular measurement and literacy instructional activity, your class will identify and compare cooking measurement instruments. They read a recipe and sequence a set of similar instructions in which the steps have been mixed...
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Lesson Plan: Successful Microwave Cooking
No need to be involved in a home economics or cooking courses to take advantage of this resource. Not only is there an explanation for how microwaves work but there are also tips for how to use the microwave, and cautions...
Curated OER
To Market
Students examine the process of cooking a meal. In this cooking background lesson, students explore cooking utensils, recipes, songs, and literature. They go through stations that encourage dramatic play and hands-on exploration of...
Curated OER
Halloween Math Lesson Plan
Students practice their multiplication and division by creating a Witches Brew. In this holiday math lesson plan, students utilize Halloween style ingredients to create a fun edible treat for themselves. Students practice...
NTTI
Hey Good Lookin', Whatchya Got Cookin'?
What better way to explore working with fractions then by using them when cooking? For this lesson, students use video, the Internet, and real world, hands-on learning activities to enhance their understanding of multiplying and dividing...
Curated OER
Vegetable Soup: A Reverse Recipe
Students cook up a healthy soup. In this early childhood food and cooking lesson plan, students gain knowledge about healthy diets, identify a variety of fruits and vegetable, and identify the connection between food served in the home...
Curated OER
Journey Cake (cooking)
Third graders make journey cakes. In this cooking lesson, 3rd graders read written directions for journey cakes and measure out the ingredients. They cook and discuss the relationship between the cakes and Native Americans.
Curated OER
Kooky Kooking
There are lots of learning opportunities built into a cooking instructional activity. Here is one that has kids dictate their own versions of real recipes. The emphasis is on having fun with this, so some of the recipes may look a bit...
Food a Fact of Life
Stir-Fry Crazy!
Sizzling stir-fry. Fajitas. Yum. Stove-top cooking is the focus of this activity designed for young cooks.
Curated OER
The Magic Apple
A fun and delicious lesson plan can help your kids learn about plural nouns and story sequencing. After reading The Magic Apple by Rob Cleveland, kids match pictures to story segments and add s to nouns to make them...
August House
The Ogre Bully
English language arts, math, science, dramatic arts, and cooking; this lesson has it all! In this multidisciplinary resource, your scholars will take part in a read aloud of The Ogre Bully by A.B. Hoffmire and have a grand...
Curated OER
Following a Recipe
Students create a cookbook. For this recipe and writing lesson, students brainstorm the skills necessary to follow a recipe, watch a cooking show and write down a recipe used. Students use a word processing program to write a...
Curated OER
Cooking Cranberry Pudding
Students explore colonial cooking. In this cross curriculum George Washington and colonial America history lesson, students follow a recipe for cranberry pudding, a possible favorite of George and Martha Washington. Students...
Curated OER
Cooking With Cuisinaires
Second graders explore fraction with Cuisenaire Rods. In this fraction lesson, 2nd graders recieve "recipe" cards for adding fractions. After practicing, students create their own cards then exchange with each other to...