Description
Looking for a low-prep, hands-on way to teach cooking in your life skills or special education classroom? This complete unit is built around visual recipes and includes everything you needโboth in print and digital formatsโto guide your students through making a simple, no-cook snack: Ants on a Log. With step-by-step visuals, clear lesson plans, and built-in support for peanut allergies (hello, cream cheese option!), this resource makes it easy to teach real-world skills like reading, communication, and mathโall through cooking.
Life skills special education activities included:
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Lesson Plan for Previewing / Pre Teaching Cooking Activity
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Lesson Plan for Cooking Activity
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Lesson Plan for Reviewing Activity
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Evaluation Plan for Taking Data
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Communication Board
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A pacing guide for implementing the activity over the week at home
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1 slide show (PowerPoint) for reviewing recipe
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Visual recipesย (one for peanut butter, one for cream cheese)
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1 picture-sequencing board and cards (3 steps)
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1 multiple-choice worksheet with visual supports for responses
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1 prediction graph
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1 conclusion graph
These life skills special education activities are perfect for students of all ages in special education classrooms, life skills programs, homeschool programs, and distance Learning programs.
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โค๏ธYou 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.ย
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โค๏ธYou 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.ย
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These life skills special education activities will 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.ย
**If you are a member of the Special Educator Academy, DO NOT buy this set as it is available within the membership**
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ยฉ Christine Reeve
This product is copyrighted to Autism Classroom Resources-Christine Reeve for use in one classroom. They may not be copied for additional classes without purchasing extra licenses.
