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!
Use these resources to help your students understand knives, knife cuts, and knife handling! Day 1: Knife Safety, Anatomy, & Cuts Webquest Day 2: Measuring Lesson Plan (omit the Blooket game introduction and demo the play-doh instead)! Day 3: Make and store play-doh Day 4: Knife cuts on play-doh Introduce your knife unit with the 3 page editable knife safety, anatomy, and cuts webquest! The play-doh recipe included gives students a chance to practice on something less intimidating before cutti
If you're looking for a fun way to supplement your food safety unit while also introducing different kinds of food borne illnesses, this is the project for you! Students will complete research on a food borne illness that will be assigned to them. Using this research, students will then create a 'most wanted' poster warning the public about their food borne illness! I use this in my high school foods and nutrition class during our food safety and sanitation project! This is also a helpful resour
Use this Editable Plating, Garnishing, and Food Photography WebQuest to introduce these techniques and skills to your students! Help students embrace the love for presenting their dish so beautifully that they feel inclined to take a nice photo of it! This Webquest is 3 pages long! Students are asked to summarize various tips and tricks of plating and food photography! I use this in conjunction with my Gourmet Ramen Noodle Lesson plan, but it is an awesome stand-alone resource and would be a gr
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!
I had my Foods & Nutrition students make this recipe during our fats unit! (Saturated and trans fats galore)! This edible cookie dough recipe works wonderfully for my 49 minute class periods because my students struggle to get actual cookies baked in 49 minutes! I also like to make guacamole with my students during our fats unit to cover unsaturated fats! I use this in my high school Foods and Nutrition but this could be used in Foods 2, Culinary Arts, or any Comprehensive Family and Consumer S
Get your hands on this bundled carbohydrates lesson! This bundle includes a funny and entertaining presentation on simple and complex carbohydrates, a student nate taking guide to fill out while going through the presentation, a matching formative assessment game, a recipe that I use to discuss the difference between simple and complex carbs, and 3 pages of talking points that go along with the Simple and Complex carbs slides! I use this in my high school foods and nutrition course!
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!
All of the classroom posters you could need for your Foods and Nutrition, comprehensive Family and Consumer Sciences class, Culinary Arts Class, and your cooking kitchens! Brighten up your classroom and boost student morale with these colorful posters! Posters have been made in Canva. If you do not have a Canva account, you can create a free Premium account with your education email!
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
Easy, yummy recipe for no bake cookies! I use this recipe when talking about measuring and kitchen math! I use this in my Foods and Nutrition class, but this could be used in Foods 2, culinary arts, or any comprehensive Family and Consumer Sciences Class!
Check out this get-to-know-you activity! This vibrant display features mason jar-themed cutouts, each showcasing a student's photo and a personalized "chef's hat." Students fill out a fun questionnaire about their culinary preferences and provide advice to younger students. This activity fosters a welcoming classroom environment and encourages students to connect with each other beyond the kitchen. Upon purchasing this product you will receive a Google Document with links to: • Jar Template wit
This editable FCCLA event planning sheet is a wonderful way to keep yourself and FCCLA members organized! As you're planning a volunteer event or community service project this template helps hammer out details. I prefer to store this document in my Google Drive so we can access this document year after year! You could also chose to print out a blank copy and fill it out (or have your secretary fill it out)! Upon purchasing you will receive a PDF file that contains a link to the editable templ
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!
A collection of some of my favorite recipes that highlight knife skills including julienne, dice, mince, chopping an onion, and peeling! Such a fun, tasty way to enhance students' knife skills and comfort handling a knife! Potato Soup is a 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 mem
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 know when students default to exclusively calling food 'bussin' or 'trash'?! Well, now you can put up this editable food adjectives poster to help students elaborate on their food descriptions! This poster includes 42 words that help describe the taste, texture, and appearance of food! This poster was made in Canva, so if you do not have an account it will prompt you to create one (It's free AND an incredible website for educators)! To print this poster in a larger size (I printed mine in 2
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! :)
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!