Everyone must eat, making culinary skills essential for all your students, whether they have Michelin star aspirations or just want to learn some basic recipes to make at home. Fortunately, we’ve created a variety of engaging tools to help teach everything from best practices for growing produce to understanding different meat cuts. Read on to discover the fun, hands-on learning aids you can use in your culinary classes.
1. Farm-to-Fork Lab Kit
Introduce students to farm-to-table concepts with our unique Farm to Fork Lab Kit. This supplemental kit includes scenario cards to focus on student problem-solving skills and materials for a variety of lab activities centered around farm-to-fork issues. This kit covers the culinary skills of growing produce, processing agricultural products, transporting food, and more.
2. Butcher Meat Cut Models
Give students safe, consistent practice with culinary skills like identifying, locating, and preparing meat cuts with our butcher cut models. These magnetic models feature realistic bone, muscle, and tendon definition. Additionally, the included standards-based curriculum provides four to five hours of instruction. We have beef, pork, and lamb models available.
3. Knife Skills Kit
Use the Knife Skills Kit to create interactive activities for up to six groups simultaneously. The included curriculum and provided materials focus on the culinary skills of proper cutting procedures and safety. The six sets include cutting boards, finger guards, culinary cuts rulers, reference posters, modeling clay, and knife cut models.
4. RealCareer™ Food Safety Kit
The RealCareer Food Safety Kit covers culinary skills such as basic food safety and handling techniques for both culinary occupations and at home. The curriculum integrates hands-on activities and components for up to six small groups to work on activities simultaneously. This kit comes with presentation slides, food safety posters, Glo Germ™ Gel, UV lights with batteries, and trivia cards.
5. Food Truck Design Kit
The Food Truck Design Kit provides a hands-on design experience for students tasked with building a food truck business. This interactive tool allows for optimal student interaction and learning while planning all aspects of a food truck business. The included curriculum addresses marketing, budgeting, menu development, and other essential business and culinary skills.
6. Kitchen Safety Kit
Use our Kitchen Safety Kit to introduce basic kitchen safety concepts and culinary skills to your students in an easy-to-use, one-week unit. The kit works with any textbook or curriculum already in use. It includes activity cards, posters, and hands-on activities that address sanitation, knife safety and hazard prevention, and assessment.
7. Food Science and Nutrition Lab Kit
Introduce students to food science and nutrition culinary skills with our unique Food Science and Nutrition Lab Kit. This supplemental kit includes student workbooks, scenario cards, and posters. It also comes with numerous materials for a variety of lab activities focused on food technology. The standards-based curriculum features content focused on career exploration.
8. Culinary Math Training Kit
Review foundational math concepts and introduce students to basic culinary math with this supplemental Culinary Math Training Kit. The included curriculum, student workbooks, and interactive online lessons allow for instructor-led classes or self-paced learning. In addition to basic math, students will also learn essential culinary skills like using kitchen measuring tools, converting standardized recipes, and calculating food costs.
9. Sports Nutrition Lab Kit
The Sports Nutrition Lab Kit includes activities and curriculum with NATA-aligned lessons. Use the contents to teach students about culinary skills regarding nutrients, nutrition, body weight and composition, pre-game meal planning, food labels, and more. This interactive kit includes supplies for up to four small groups to conduct lab activities simultaneously on topics including banned substance research and using nutrition to enhance performance.
10. Beef and Pork 3D Meat Cuts Poster
The Beef and Pork 3D Meat Cuts Poster represents primal beef and pork meat cuts in realistic, full-color details. It contours to the shape of the animal and represents the most common cuts of beef and pork. Students can use this poster to learn the culinary skills of identifying various meat cuts.
11. Educational Hydroponics Systems
Grow greens while addressing key plant science, STEM, and culinary skills with the award-winning educational hydroponics systems. The hydroponics system with the included starter materials and support resources allow you to begin growing right away. There are three versions available: Plant Producer, Plant Lab, and Plant Mini.
12. Employability Skills Scenario Cards
These pathway/occupation-specific workplace scenario cards cover real-world situations in careers. Use these cards to develop soft skills within specific occupations through small-group discussions, as a large-group icebreaker, or as an individual challenge. There are two culinary skills sets available: Culinary Career and Food Processing, Production, and Safety Career.
Additional Resources
- Get an in-depth look at the Farm to Fork Lab Kit by reading this blog post
- See how you can implement these tools into your culinary program on this page
- Watch this webinar to discover tips and tricks for teaching math in culinary programs
