Career & technical ed.
Careers in Food Service: Jobs, Shifts and Paychecks
Students match eight restaurant jobs to their duties, calculate pay, overtime and shift hours, and write about a career path and teamwork.
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Cross-Contamination: Stop the Spread
Students read about how germs spread between foods, match six kitchen mistakes to the right fix, order refrigerator shelves, and judge true-or-false statements.
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Fabric and Sewing Vocabulary: Read, Sort, Measure
Students read a short passage on fibers and fabric, fill in key sewing terms, sort fibers by source, and solve three yardage and seam problems.
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Kitchen Measurements: Teaspoons to Gallons
Students use a table of kitchen equivalents to convert between teaspoons, tablespoons, cups, pints, quarts, gallons and ounces and solve real recipe questions.
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Kitchen Safety Snapshots: Safe or Unsafe?
Students judge eight short kitchen scenes as safe or unsafe, write the fix for each unsafe habit, and answer questions about fires, knives and handwashing.
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Kitchen Tools: Match the Tool to the Job
Students match ten kitchen tools to their jobs, sort tools into categories, and answer questions about measuring and safe storage.
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Laundry Labels and Sorting Loads
Students decode six care-label phrases, sort ten clothing items into laundry loads using given rules, and calculate laundromat costs.
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Reading a Nutrition Facts Label: Do the Math
Students use a made-up nutrition label to multiply by servings, calculate calories from fat and percent daily value, and compare cost per bar.
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Safe Food Temperatures: Know the Numbers
Students fill in the safe cooking, holding and cold-storage temperatures, convert them to Celsius, and work two time-in-the-danger-zone problems.
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Scaling a Recipe Up and Down
Students find a scaling factor, multiply a pancake recipe up and down, convert units, and use unit rates to scale a muffin recipe.
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Stages of Child Development: Infants to School Age
Students read about four stages of child development, match children to their stage, answer safety and age-fit questions, and plan an activity for a four-year-old.
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Weeknight Dinners on a Budget: Plan and Compare
Students total a five-dinner family plan against a $50 budget, swap one meal to save money, compare unit prices, and calculate a sale discount.