I have been teaching for a total of 6 years now! I am currently teaching Foods and Nutrition and Foods 2 in 'home-style' kitchens in North Dakota! I have also taught Housing and Interior Design! I have 1 year of experience in a middle school from my student teaching days!
Check out this editable Top 10 Common Cooking Mistakes Webquest! This is an awesome resource to have on hand for emergency sub plans! I can use this in any of my family and consumer sciences classes and the students usually learn something valuable too! I usually print this off and have students fill out a physical copy, but this could also be assigned for a digital activity! Can be used in Foods and Nutrition, Foods 2, Culinary Arts, or any comprehensive Family and Consumer Sciences Class!
Individual Puppy Chow is such a fun, tasty way to make sure that each student is capable of reading a recipe and measuring accurately. Use this as a beginning lab in your comprehensive family and consumer sciences class, foods and nutrition, or for a fun lab in your culinary arts class! This is an easy recipe that can help students start to feel comfortable with being in the kitchen! Each student makes their own puppy chow!
A bundle of recipes that will supplement your 6 essential nutrients teaching! These are all recipes that I use in my high school foods and nutrition classroom! Tried and true recipes! Protein Recipes: Chicken Alfredo & Vegetarian Black Bean Enchiladas Fat Recipes: Homemade Butter Carbohydrates Recipes: Stir Fried Rice, Homemade Biscuits, Homemade Jalapeno Cheddar Biscuits (Sausage gravy and vegetarian mushroom & onion gravy included)! Vitamins/Minerals/Water Recipes: Acai Bowl (homemade granola
If you have shorter class periods, this 2 day pizza dough is definitely for you! I have students make pizzas when we talk about yeast breads in class, and this is always one of their favorite labs - I mean who doesn't love pizza! I broke this recipe into how I would do this in my 49 minutes class periods! It's worked well so far! I use this in my Foods 2 Class but this could also be used in Foods & Nutrition, Culinary Arts, or any comprehensive Family and Consumer Sciences Class!
This is an editable version of my Foods & Nutrition Syllabus! I use this in my high school class as a way to cover important classroom rules, give an overview of the class, and gather important information such as ALLERGIES! In my first school we were also responsible for collecting the lab fees, so I would include that on here as well! Upon purchasing you will receive a PDF that contains a link to an editable template in Canva.com I use this in my high school family and consumer sciences class
Chicken Alfredo recipe you can use in your Foods & Nutrition, comprehensive FACS class, or culinary arts! I use this recipe when talking about the essential nutrient protein! This recipe is HANDS DOWN, a fan favorite among my high school students! Tried and true recipe!
Check out this Digital Notebook that is specifically designed to be specifically used for culinary vocabulary! This product includes a title page where students will put their name, an instructions page, an example page, and multiple pages to fill with their new vocabulary knowledge! Upon purchasing, you will receive a Google Slide that includes all of the pages as well as links to the Editable Canva documents in case you would rather deliver this digital notebook that way! The idea is that the
Bechamel Mother Sauce Alfredo Sauce Cheddar Cheese Sauce Veloute Sauce Veloute/Espagnole Hybrid sauce I use these sauce recipes to show my students how versatile sauces are! I use this recipe when we talk about the 5 mother sauces in my Foods 2 class, but this could be used in Foods and Nutrition, Culinary Arts, or any comprehensive FACS Class!
You will be provided a link to this editable poster! To download, click the down arrow in the top right corner (I recommend downloading as a PDF for best quality)! Another cool feature is that you can buy large prints straight from Canva and have them shipped to you! To print, click the print posters button in the top right and pick how large you would like the poster to be! All the key points from Samin Nosrat's book Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat! Hang these classroom posters in your culinary class t
Have your students prepare this easy, tasty breakfast burrito or sandwich recipes! I demo both recipes during our egg unit and then give my students the option to prepare either one! These make for a quick lab - even for my 49 minute periods! However, I feel like these breakfast sandwiches and breakfast burritos are awesome recipes for students to be exposed to since they are cheap, tasty, and easy! I use this in my high school Foods and Nutrition class, but this could also be used in a middle s
Yummy Stir Fried Rice Recipe! Students will get to practice their knife cuts when practicing this recipe - Chopping, Mincing, Julienne, and Dicing)! This recipe also helps when discussing simple and complex carbohydrates! Have a formative assessment or quick discussion asking which ingredients would be considered simple carbs and which would be complex carbs! This recipe is ALWAYS one of my students' favorite! Enjoy! :)
Editable note taking guide that goes along with 26 slides of an editable food safety and sanitation presentation! This sequence thoroughly covers what I actually say to my students during this lesson, what questions I ask, and what activities I do! We cover hygiene, temperature danger zone, cross contamination, and a few other general kitchen safety items! This resource is to be used in conjunction with the food safety and sanitation lesson plan, so I highly encourage purchasing the bundle for
Tasty recipe that helps students practice their knife cuts! This recipe includes dicing, mincing, peeling, and cutting onions! Such an awesome way to utilize their knife skills while making delicious potato soup! This recipe is for one kitchen with 4 group members! I use this in my Foods and Nutrition Class, but this could also be used in a Foods 2, Culinary arts, or general Family and Consumer Sciences Class!
This editable bruschetta and crostini recipe is a perfect knife skills refresher and first lab for my Foods 2 class! They dice, mince, and chiffonade in this recipe! My all-time favorite is when students who claim to 'hate tomatoes' try this recipe and end up changing their opinion on tomatoes! I like to remind students that they could use this as an appetizer, serve it over chicken, or cook up some shrimp to make 'shrimp bruschetta' So quick and tasty! Bruschetta Demo Video located here: https
Use this editable FCCLA sign up sheet to keep track of which students sign up for events! This also doubles as an easy way for kids to keep track of their volunteer hours! I will have the secretary keep track of this resource in their binder! I use this in my high school FCCLA! Upon purchasing, you will receive a PDF file that contains a link to the editable template!
Use these colorful food pun posters in your classroom to create a positive learning environment! Perfect for a foods & nutrition class, comprehensive FACS class, or any culinary arts class!
Enjoy this discounted bundle that includes two Valentines day Recipes (Chocolate Covered Strawberries, and 'Smoochies' aka Giant hershey kisses)! high school family and consumer sciences, foods and nutrition, cooking, recipes
Use this editable Happy Birthday Message to celebrate your student birthdays in your class! Make sure to customize the colors, your name, and your personal message! I print these out, cut them out, and attach them to laffy taffy candies to make them look like the balloon-on-a-stick, but you could also attach them to a festive pencil or other treat! This is an editable Canva document, so upon purchasing you will receive a PDF document that includes the link to the template! You do not need Canva
Yummy, easy homemade pasta and shrimp scampi recipe! This specific recipe uses the Kitchen Aid pasta attachments, but this could also be made with hand pasta sheet rollers! This is a Google Document recipe so make sure to check your Google Drive after purchasing! Day 1: demo pasta and sauce Day 2: Students make and store pasta and mise en place the rest of their ingredients Day 3: Finish cutting and cooking pasta, shrimp, and sauce. Eat! I use this in my Foods 2 class but this could also be used
This is JUST the blank food truck sheet. It is NOT editable. I print a copy for each student and they design their truck with markers, pencils, crayons, printed materials, etc! I use this in my high school Foods 2 class and this project covers so many standards! This could also be used in a Foods and Nutrition class, culinary arts, or any comprehensive Family And Consumer Science Course!
I have been teaching for a total of 6 years now! I am currently teaching Foods and Nutrition and Foods 2 in 'home-style' kitchens in North Dakota! I have also taught Housing and Interior Design! I have 1 year of experience in a middle school from my student teaching days!
Teaching style
My goal as an educator is to continually modify and develop my teaching style! I would say my teaching style is project and hands-on based!
Awards & shining teacher moments
I graduated with honors from Montana State University with a Bachelor of Science in Family and Consumer Sciences Education! I have attended National Restaurant Association Level 1 training at Daytona State College and completed the Culinary Arts Level 2 training at Johnson and Wales University Denver!
My own education history
I attended Montana State University with every hope to become a school counselor! In the process I fell in love with the kids and found my niche in teaching Family & Consumer Sciences! I graduated from Montana State University in 2018 with a Bachelor of Science in Family and Consumer Sciences Education! My first year I taught in large high school in MT and then moved to ND and I have been teaching high school here ever since! I have been an FCCLA co-advisor every year!