The Teaching Chef

Keep your culinary students learning even when they’re out of the kitchen!Need a LOW PREP solution for snow days, NTID days, emergency sub plans, or distance learning in your culinary classroom? This ProStart 1 NTID Packet is packed with engaging, real-world culinary and restaurant industry activities designed specifically for high school ProStart and Culinary Arts students. Students will review kitchen safety, customer service, restaurant careers, menu planning, and employability skills — all w

Looking for a fun, creative, and student friendly back-to-school activity that goes beyond the basic “get to know you” worksheet? Your Life as a Playlist is the perfect first week of school activity to help students introduce themselves through music, reflection, creativity, and personal connection. In this activity, students create an 8-song playlist that represents who they are, where they have been, and where they hope to go. Each song connects to a different part of their life, personality,

Bring the classical mother sauces to life with this fun Frankie’s Sauce Lab activity for culinary arts students! This engaging worksheet set turns sauce instruction into a mad-scientist themed lab where students identify the five classical mother sauces, review ingredients, match derivatives, analyze sauce clues, and create their own “monster sauce.” This activity is perfect for culinary arts, ProStart, foods classes, hospitality, and family and consumer sciences courses. It works well as an in

****Teach Students How to Promote a Destination Like a Pro!****Print & GoNo PrepGreat for Independent Work or SubsLooking for an engaging, no-prep lesson to teach your students about destination marketing strategies? This ready-to-use resource is perfect for Travel & Tourism, Hospitality, or Marketing classes! Students will explore how destinations attract visitors through branding, target audiences, social media, events, and partnerships, then apply their knowledge by creating their own marketi

Bring real-world learning into your classroom with this engaging Mock Farmstand Project! Perfect for culinary, and hospitality classes, this activity allows students to create and run their own farmstand business from start to finish. Students will develop a brand, create products, design a stand layout, and practice customer service skills—all while working in a simulated workplace environment. This project encourages creativity, teamwork, and critical thinking while reinforcing important culin

Follow the clues. Track the tourists. Solve the mystery of West Virginia.Looking for a fun, engaging, and challenging way to teach West Virginia TOURISM regions? This logic-based mystery activity turns your classroom into an investigation! Students will use critical thinking, reading comprehension, and geography skills to track down missing tourists across the nine tourism regions of West Virginia. Students become tourism investigators as they: Analyze clues Eliminate incorrect answers Apply k

Get your students thinking like hospitality professionals with this engaging lodging customer service activity! Print-and-go No prep required No answer key included (student-response based)Perfect for Hospitality & Tourism, ProStart, or Intro to Tourism classes, this resource helps students apply real-world customer service techniques that focus on guest comfort, satisfaction, and well-being. Students will step into the role of hotel employees and respond to realistic guest situations, just li

Help students discover exciting career opportunities in the growing hospitality industry with this engaging West Virginia Hospitality Careers Research & Presentation Packet! Students will explore real career paths within the Mountain State while developing speaking, research, and presentation skills. This 4-page print-and-go packet guides students through selecting a hospitality career, researching job responsibilities, learning required skills, and preparing a presentation to share with the cla

Non-Traditional Instructional Day 5 Day Packet ***Print and Go Ready**** Need an engaging and easy-to-use resource for Non-Traditional Instructional Days, snow days, or emergency learning days? This 5 Day Culinary NTID Packet is designed specifically for 8th grade Culinary Exploratory students and keeps students learning independently from home. Students will explore kitchen tools, food safety, restaurant design, recipe reading, and culinary careers through fun, age-appropriate activities. Each

Turn your students into creative bakers and entrepreneurs with this engaging, artistic bake sale challenge! **PRINT & GO!***Looking for a high-engagement, no-prep culinary activity that keeps students busy and thinking creatively? This Art Stroll Bake Sale Project is a 2-day group activity designed for high school culinary students to brainstorm, design, and market artistic baked goods for a themed event. Students will work in teams to create a unique bake sale concept, complete with a themed m

Keep students engaged (even from home!) with this 5-day, no prep Travel WV packet designed for snow days and NTID learning.Need a reliable, engaging, and easy to use packet for snow days or non-traditional instruction Day (NTID)? This 5-day Travel West Virginia packet is designed specifically for high school students to complete independently, no internet required! Students will explore West Virginia tourism, local attractions, and personal connections to travel while practicing critical thinkin

Engage your students with this real-world leadership lesson designed for hospitality and tourism classes! This resource helps students understand and apply four key leadership styles used in the tourism industry. Students will explore:Transformational LeadershipTransactional LeadershipSituational LeadershipServant LeadershipThis resource includes an informational reading, comprehension questions, scenario-based activities, and a real-world application writing task. Perfect for: Hospitality & Tou

(PRINT & GO READY!!) Great for Subs!TOURISM PACKET!!!Looking for an engaging, real-world tourism lesson your students will actually enjoy? This Tourism Takeover Activity Packet helps students explore how states across the U.S. attract visitors and boost their economies while making strong connections to your own state and community. Perfect for Travel & Tourism, Hospitality, or CTE classes, this resource encourages critical thinking, creativity, and real-world application. Students Will Learn:H

*** PRINT & GO READY!!!!*****GREAT SUB ACTIVITY***Bring real-world culinary skills into your classroom with this engaging and reusable Cooking Show Analysis Worksheet! Perfect for high school culinary students, this activity allows students to critically analyze popular cooking shows while connecting what they see to real kitchen skills, food safety, and professional behavior. Students will watch any cooking show episode ( Chopped, MasterChef, Top Chef, Nailed It, or even YouTube cooking videos)

Bring real-world learning into your classroom with this engaging Travel & Tourism activity focused on boosting local tourism in rural communities! In this lesson, students step into the role of a Tourism Board Member and develop a plan to attract visitors to their county. Using a West Virginia tourism video, real economic data, and critical thinking, students will analyze tourism strategies and create their own marketing ideas. This activity is perfect for:Travel & Tourism classes Hospitality c

****PRINT & GO !!!******SUB PLAN**Looking for a high-engagement, NOCTI-aligned review activity that actually prepares your students for real-world kitchen situations? This NOCTI Culinary Scenario Challenge places students inside a fast-paced commercial kitchen where things are going wrong and it is their job to fix it. Students will analyze realistic kitchen disasters involving:Food safety & sanitation Cross contamination Cooking methods & temperatures Workplace professionalism Team communicatio

Looking for a fun, low-prep culinary activity to reinforce soup vocabulary? This Soup-er Scramble Challenge is the perfect way to review key kitchen terms while keeping students engaged! Students will unscramble 15 soup-related words and write definitions, helping them build vocabulary and strengthen understanding of essential culinary concepts. Perfect for:Culinary Arts Classes FCS (Family & Consumer Science) ProStart Programs Sub Plans Review Days Early Finisher Work What’s Included 1 Student

Bring some St. Patrick’s Day fun into your culinary classroom while reinforcing essential kitchen safety skills! In this engaging activity, students draw a mystery shamrock card with a kitchen scenario. Each shamrock represents either Good Luck (safe kitchen behavior) or Bad Luck (unsafe kitchen behavior). Students must determine whether their shamrock is Good Luck or Bad Luck. If it’s Bad Luck, they must say “Just my luck!”, read the scenario aloud, and explain how the safety problem should be

A hands-on culinary arts lesson where students explore edible plants, food safety, and foraging through four engaging classroom activities.Bring edible plants into your classroom with this engaging Culinary Arts Edible Plants Lesson! In this interactive Clover Foraging Activity, students explore how a common lawn plant can actually be used in cooking while learning about food safety, nutrition, and ingredient sourcing. This culinary arts lesson includes four hands-on activities where students ob

A High-Engagement, Food Safety & Knife Skills Escape Room for Culinary & ProStart ClassesLooking for a FUN, high-energy St. Patrick’s Day activity that actually reinforces culinary skills? This interactive escape room transforms your classroom into the Emerald Kitchen, where students must break a mischievous leprechaun’s curse before the St. Patrick’s Day feast is ruined! Students rotate through 5 engaging culinary stations that reinforce: Knife cutsFood safety temperaturesHandwashing procedure