Winding Path Teaching

Need a ready-to-go activity for Valentine's Day for something all kids love? Food! This Blind Date with a Dish activity is perfect for making Valentine cards your students will love to make. This activity gives your students a chance to do some Valentine's Day coloring or craft, or could even be your emergency sub plans! Students create fun and mysterious descriptions of their favorite dishes while decorating personalized cards using 15 included templates (5 are Valentine's Day-themed!). It’s e

Don’t miss out on the perfect way to challenge your students’ minds: logic puzzles! These 20 logic puzzles are perfect for building critical thinking skills while keeping students entertained and engaged! Each logic grid puzzle is designed to spark logical reasoning, critical thinking, deduction skills, making them ideal for Fun Friday activities or as part of your emergency sub plans. Whether you're looking for brain-boosting activities for early finishers or something to energize your class,

Need an activity fast that helps students practice their critical thinking? Here are eight more logic grid puzzles will engage your students' brains, logical reasoning, critical thinking, and deduction skills! Students will use clues provided and logic to complete each puzzle and solve the problem presented in each puzzle. These are perfect for your emergency sub plans or when you need extension activities for early finishers.All eight puzzles are themed around food, farms, and meals. Provide

Looking for a comprehensive exploration of the connections between culture and food, with informative examples from around the world and throughout history? You'll have a expert way to get students to answer "What is a food culture?" This bundle introduces students to food cultures in an interactive lesson in which they will read the perspectives of 12 people from around the world. In the process of evaluating the perspectives, students will work together to develop a definition of food cultu

Students in FACS and history classes rarely get to see that the food they eat has a political history. This lesson puts primary sources from journalists, legislators, and advertisers in front of them and asks them to work out for themselves why food safety became a public concern in the early 20th century. It's built around a guiding question that has a real answer students can construct from evidence, not just describe. The Value in Your Classroom: Engagement: Students enjoy the peek into the p

Looking for a way to engage your students about food and culture? Check out how food cultures have changed over time! This complete lesson has everything you need to teach about food cultures through time, from when students first walk in to the end of the class. In the core of this lesson, students will work in small groups to research a dish that represents one of four eras in the history of food and culture. They will create an entry for a cookbook with their knowledge, helping to assemble

Need extension activities that will engage your students across multiple dimensions of thinking? These seven activities will engage your students' creativity, logical reasoning, computation skills, and artistic abilities! You will have access to several activities that will utilize different modes of thinking and interests, so all your students will have something to engage with. Some activities are great for individual work and some work well for groups. These are perfect for your emergency s

Need an activity fast that helps students practice their critical thinking? These eight logic grid puzzles will engage your students' brains, logical reasoning, critical thinking, and deduction skills! Students will use clues provided and logic to complete each puzzle and solve the problem presented in each puzzle. These are perfect for your emergency sub plans or when you need extension activities for early finishers.All eight puzzles are themed around food, restaurants, chefs, and the field

Looking for a way to engage your students in ethical eating conversations while connecting classroom learning to real-world debates? This lesson about vegetarianism and ethical eating is exactly what you need! They will get background information about the debate around vegetarianism, research and summarize one perspective on the debate, inform a small group about the arguments they learned about, and then discuss freely with their small group about ethical eating, using information they learne

In this engaging and relevant discussion that brings real-world conversations into a FACS or social studies classroom, students will learn about and discuss replacing grass lawns with edible landscapes. They will get background information about the debate, research and summarize one perspective on the debate, inform a small group about the arguments they learned about, and then discuss freely with their small group about the topic, using information they learned during their research. This is

These printable posters outline the essential safety rules of using various cooking instruments you may use in your classroom, such as microwaves, blenders, hot plates, and convection ovens (like air fryers). In addition, a poster outlining general hygiene principles are useful for any classroom recipe! That makes five posters total. These colorful and easy-to-read posters will ensure your students know the best ways to stay safe in the classroom and prevent any accidents or insects. Each po

Elevate your world history curriculum or global foods course through the historical and culinary landscape of the Cold War era. And make and eat some salsa in the classroom along the way! And beyond that, they will strengthen their understanding of global foods and four historical trends in the US after the end of WWII, including immigration, mass production, the influence of the US military, and the Cold War. Students will rotate between preparing and analyzing salsa (an easy, classroom-frien

Looking to connect women's history with your food, FACS, or CTE lessons? Or to integrate authentic learning tasks and student choice into your curriculum? I created this activity to highlight important women in the history of American food. The choice board features 8 women in different aspects of food culture and history, as well as uses 39 learning tasks organized in 15 career clusters, to yield over 300 possible combinations! If you're tired of reading the same essay 30 times, this project wi

In this engaging and memorable Aztec and Mayan lesson, you and your students will recreate the ancient Mesoamerican hot chocolate drink, Xocolatl! And beyond that, they will strengthen their understanding of global foods and four essential historical concepts, including cultural diffusion, social hierarchy, historical perspective, and change and continuity over time. Students will rotate between preparing and analyzing the drink (an easy, classroom-friendly recipe is included!) and choosing be

This lesson will have your students engaged in an uncommon, but practical and personal, form of literacy: recipes! Students will rotate through 5 stations that each facilitate an important aspect of recipes, including that they standardize information (ex. measurements), they provide clear instructions, and they target specific audiences. An optional sixth station engages the whole class in the creation of a mug cake without a recipe! This station rotation activity will ensure your students don

This bundle has all four lessons of the Food Memory Mini-Unit, in which students explore, analyze, synthesize, and reflect upon the relationships between food, memory, community, history, and themselves! This works great for a project-based unit in which all the lessons build up skills for students to create recipes, conduct interviews, write narratives, and craft creative works. Then, they put it all together in a class cookbook. You will be amazed at what your students are capable of! Give the

Students will put their creative, analytical, narrative, and evaluation skills together to create a cookbook for their class! They will combine the recipes they wrote, the narratives written from the interviews they conducted, and the creative works describing food memories that they have created throughout the Food Memory Cookbook Mini-Unit. Students work together to define the organization and style of the cookbook, using examples of diverse cookbooks as inspiration, and then divide up the

Looking to connect Black history with your food, FACS, or CTE lessons? Or to integrate authentic learning tasks and student choice into your curriculum? I created this choice board because I couldn't find anyone else who made one like it! The choice board uses 8 topics around Black history and 39 learning tasks organized in 15 career clusters, to yield over 300 possible combinations! If you're tired of reading the same essay 30 times, this project will provide a lot more variety. For my high sc

Looking to integrate authentic learning tasks, student choice, career possibilities, or employability skills into your lessons? I created this choice board because I couldn't find anyone else who made one like it! This template can be used for class, skill, or standard that uses learning resources such as readings, videos, interactive websites, etc. The choice board uses 8 topics and 39 learning tasks organized in 15 career clusters, to yield over 300 possible combinations! If you're tired of re

This lesson will have your students engaged in an uncommon, but practical and personal, form of literacy: recipes! Not only will students individually create 3 different recipes using information from their own histories and the histories of their loved ones, but they will be working together to determine a recipe that best represents their class or school, learn the parts of a recipe and how to read one, and then play a fun game together to review. Other lessons in the Food Memory Cookbook M