Product Description
Looking for an interactive life skills cooking activity that keeps students engaged and working independently? This tossed salad unit is a great way to bring real-world experience into your classroom while supporting individual participation. Using visual recipes and built-in comprehension supports, students can follow each step, handle their own ingredients, and build confidence in the kitchen.
Perfect for small group instruction or individual practice, this life skills cooking resource includes lesson plans, supply lists, a home planning guide, and tools for sequencing and comprehension. It’s everything you need (except the food and utensils) to get your students actively involved in making a fresh salad—while building essential skills along the way.
All pages are included in Google™️ Slides for easy remote instruction. The links to Google™️ Apps for use with Google™️ Classroom are included in the PDF you receive when purchasing.
**If you are a member of the Special Educator Academy, DO NOT buy this set as it is available within the membership**
Use these for life skills – cooking in a group or cooking with 1 student in the classroom. It has also been adapted for families to use at home during home instruction or homework with a weekly lesson plan using different elements of the materials. It’s 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.
This Life Skills Cooking Unit is Perfectunit is perfect for students of all ages in
- Special education classrooms
- Life skills programs
- Homeschool programs
- Distance Learning programs.
What’s Included?
- Lesson Plan for Previewing / Preteaching Cooking Activity
- Lesson Plan for Cooking Activity
- Lesson Plan for Reviewing Activity
- Evaluation Plan for Taking Data
- Communication Board
- 1 slide show (PowerPoint) for reviewing recipe
- 1 visual recipe
- 1 page of written recipe cards
- 1 matching pictures to directions sequencing (9 steps)
- 1 written sequencing board (9 steps)
- 1 multiple-choice worksheet with visual supports for responses
- 1 multiple – choice worksheet with written response choices
- 1 cooking job board with pictures and 1 without
- 1 prediction graph /1 conclusion graph
Interactive Elements Available in Google Slides
- Worksheets with written and picture choices
- Picture Sequencing drag and drop
- Written Sequencing drag and drop
- Slide show of the steps and ingredients-fill in the blank for communication
Skills Addressed:
- •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 visual and/or verbal directions to construct a product,
- •reading a recipe with or without picture cues,
- •using a knife slice and chop vegetables,
- •trying new foods,
- •opening jar/containers
- •recalling events of an activity with visual supports,
- •sequencing 9 steps of a completed activity (with or without visual cues),
- •answer simple questions about the activity and product created
- •Motor skills including tearing, slicing, tossing the salad and pouring
- •Completing a role to collaborate with peers to complete a group project with or w/o visual supports of a job board
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This product is copyrighted to Christine Reeve for use in one classroom or caseload. They may not be copied for additional classes without purchasing extra licenses.
