Description
Try out this fun and engaging cooking lesson with your life skills or special education class. This cooking activity includes everything you will need to teach an entire unit for a cooking a no-cook snack with your students. It even includes an option for a substitution for peanut allergies!
Not only will your students love learning how to cook, they will also learn valuable skills such as language and communication, reading, and math. With lesson plans for previewing the lesson, visual recipes, and evaluating learning, this unit has everything you need to cook Ants on a Log as a snack with peanut butter or cream cheese.
Life skills lessons & special education activities included:
- Lesson Plan for Previewing / Pre Teaching Cooking Activity
- Lesson Plan for Cooking Activity
- Lesson Plan for Reviewing Activity
- Evaluation Plan for Taking Data
- Communication Board
- A pacing guide for implementing the activity over the week at home
- 1 slide show (PowerPoint) for reviewing recipe
- Visual recipes (one for peanut butter, one for cream cheese)
- 1 picture-sequencing board and cards (3 steps)
- 1 multiple-choice worksheet with visual supports for responses
- 1 prediction graph
- 1 conclusion graph
This life skills lesson is perfect for students of all ages in special education classrooms, life skills programs, homeschool programs, and distance Learning programs.
❤️You can use these for cooking in a group or cooking with 1 student. It has been adapted for families to use at home during home instruction or homework with a weekly lesson plan using different elements of the materials.
❤️You will LOVE this resource because it is easy to target communication and language skills, self-help skills, reading skills, and math skills with graphing predictions of whether the students will like it. Plus, the visual recipes are perfect for your students who struggle to read.
These life skills special education activities address the following skills: Receptive / expressive vocabulary for cooking; identifying ingredients; expressing a prediction of preference; interpreting graphs, compare and contrast data results, create number sentence of data from graph, following simple verbal directions to construct a product, reading a recipe with or without picture cues (visual recipes included to help students), using a knife to spread ingredients, trying new foods, opening jar/containers, recalling events of an activity with visual supports, sequencing 2-4 steps of a completed activities (with or without visual cues), answer simple questions about the activity and product created, and making choices about toppings.
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**If you are a member of the Special Educator Academy, DO NOT buy this set as it is available within the membership**
© Christine Reeve
This product is copyrighted to Autism Classroom News-Christine Reeve 2019 for use in one classroom. They may not be copied for additional classes without purchasing extra licenses.
