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Now, We’re Cooking! Unit PlanNow, We’re Cooking! Unit Plan
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True Blue Schools
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1st - 6th
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Now, We’re Cooking!

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Practice nutritional cooking with a collection of fun meal preparation lessons. Each lesson includes a focus, objective, collaborative activity, and recipe to culminate what young cooks have learned about healthy eating.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

cooking, nutritional value, nutrition labels, healthy eating, healthy habits, recipes, grocery shopping, ingredients

Additional Tags

health

Instructional Ideas

  • Use in a home economics or cooking class
  • A great homeschool resource
  • Have learners go over the recipes and directions in a lesson about informational text

Classroom Considerations

  • The pages are all in color; be sure that printing in black and white doesn't impact understanding

Pros

  • Provides options for slowing the lesson down or making it less complicated
  • Offers tips for enrichment and extension in each lesson

Cons

  • None

Common Core

RL.5.1 RI.1.1 RI.2.1 RI.3.1 RI.4.1 RI.6.1

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