Looking for hands-on kits to increase student engagement in your culinary science? We can help! In a recent webinar, Denise Dubois, Realityworks Senior FCS Product Manager; Co-Chair, Alliance for Family and Consumer Sciences, discussed how our culinary kits can add more recipes for hands-on learning to your culinary program cookbook. Read on to learn more about the variety of culinary kits we offer and the curricula they come with.
1. Knife Skills Kit
Use the Knife Skills Kit to create interactive activities for up to six groups to work on simultaneously. The kit comes with a three-lesson curriculum that covers safe handling and storage of knives, the anatomy of knives, and more. Culinary science students are introduced to safe and unsafe knife handling scenarios, a presentation on knife anatomy, and a knife cuts vocabulary exercise. Take a closer look at this kit in the video below.
2. Food Safety Kit
The Food Safety Kit covers basic food safety and handling techniques used in culinary occupations and at home. This kit comes with curriculum, slide presentations, food safety posters, Glo Germ™ Gel, and more. The curriculum covers topics like basic food safety, foodborne illnesses and preventing their outbreaks, and the temperature danger zone.
Download a sample lesson from the curriculum on foodborne illnesses to use in your culinary science classes today!
3. Kitchen Safety Kit
Use our Kitchen Safety Kit to introduce basic kitchen safety concepts and techniques to your culinary science students in an easy-to-use, one-week unit. The included curriculum features lessons on sanitation, prevention of burns, and more. The kit provides quizzes, slide presentations, and lab activities for students to engage with. Watch the video below to get a closer look at everything this kit includes.
4. Food Truck Design Kit
The Food Truck Design Kit provides a hands-on design experience for culinary science students tasked with building a food truck business. This kit includes dry erase markers, microfiber cloths, gridded dry erase design boards, and more. The included curriculum covers topics such as marketing for food trucks and budget management for a food truck business.
Download the Menu Development slide presentation to get a sneak peek.
5. Food Science and Nutrition Lab Kit
Introduce culinary science students to food science and nutrition concepts with our unique Food Science and Nutrition Lab Kit. This kit’s curriculum covers career planning, food safety, introduction to nutrition, and more. Some activities students will participate in include a career planning presentation, food safety lab activities, and reading food labels. Take a closer look at this kit in the video below.
6. Sports Nutrition Lab Kit
The Sports Nutrition Lab Kit includes student workbooks, posters, a body fat model, skinfold calipers, and more. The curriculum features lessons on topics such as nutrients and nutrition to enhance performance. Your culinary science students will research six classes of nutrients, create a pregame meal plan for a specific sport, and more.
Check out a sample from this kit’s student workbook!
7. Farm to Fork Lab Kit
Introduce culinary science students to farm-to-table concepts with our unique Farm to Fork Lab Kit. This kit includes whiteboards, markers, microfiber cloths, insect models, Petri dishes, agar powder, and more. The included curriculum covers topics like the production of goods and processing agricultural products.
8. Culinary Math Training Kit
Review foundational math concepts and introduce students to basic culinary math with this supplemental Culinary Math Training Kit. The curriculum features lessons on topics like fractions, decimals, ratios, and percentages; calculating food costs; and measurement systems. You can use the included presentation slides to address these concepts in person or the online curriculum to conduct complete lessons.
Try an online lesson from this kit for free!
9. Food Plating and Presentation Kit
The Food Plating and Presentation Kit enables students to master the art of food plating and presentation using real culinary tools while minimizing the costs associated with consumable ingredients. Students can practice a variety of professional plating techniques on model food sets, reducing waste and allowing for repeated practice. The hands-on nature of this kit not only helps teach plating but also reinforces transferable skills that are valuable in real-world culinary careers.
Additional Resources
- Watch the full webinar on demand
- See how you can implement these kits and other culinary tools in your classroom here
- Read our blog post on tips for a successful program preview day
