Life skills and special education
Kitchen Equipment & Measuring Activities
Cooking Basics & Recipes · FACS
- Grades
- Grades 6–12
- Formats
- Google Slides, PDF, PowerPoint
- Pages
- 44
- Answer keys
- Included
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Teach kitchen equipment, measuring and recipe reading in one complete cooking basics unit. Students learn 36 kitchen tools from clear illustrations, measure dry and liquid ingredients the right way, decode recipe abbreviations and equivalents, learn cooking terms and double and halve recipes with fractions. A hands-on measuring lab, 24 task cards and Kitchen Tools Bingo keep it active, and leveled pages make it work for FACS and life skills classes alike.
What's included
- Teacher guide with 8-day pacing, materials, differentiation (support, on level, challenge), a levels chart, lab and bingo directions and sample IEP goals
- Standards page (FCS National Standards, Common Core math and technical literacy) with a full table of contents
- 3 picture vocabulary pages: 36 kitchen tools drawn clearly, each with its name and job (measure & mix, cut & prep, cook & bake)
- Label the Kitchen: a detailed kitchen scene with 14 tools to label
- Match the Tool to the Job (Level 1, large print with pictures)
- Which Tool Would You Use? 12 jobs, odd-one-out and "which is better and why" questions
- How to Measure reference page: spoon and level, packed brown sugar, thick foods, eye-level liquids, measuring spoons, butter sticks
- Dry, Liquid or Spoon? 12 recipe amounts + 4 "what went wrong?" scenarios
- Read the Measuring Cup: 12 illustrated cups (read, convert to fl oz, draw the line)
- Build the Amount: fewest scoops with cups and spoons
- Abbreviations & equivalents cheat sheet (tsp, Tbsp, c, fl oz, oz, lb, pt, qt, gal, doz) with a gallon diagram
- Abbreviations & equivalents practice + 10 measurement word problems
- Parts of a Recipe (annotated recipe card) and Read the Recipe (10 questions)
- 18 illustrated cooking terms (dice, mince, whisk, fold, sauté, simmer and more) + practice page
- Get Ready to Cook: gather the equipment, put recipe steps in order, plan batches
- Doubling & Halving: how it works, with kitchen-friendly conversion charts
- Double It!, Halve It! and Scale It (×⅔ and ×1½) recipe pages
- Measuring lab: 6 station cards + group recording sheet
- 24 leveled task cards + recording sheet
- Kitchen Tools Bingo: 30 calling cards with clues + 7 different picture boards and a make-your-own board
- 6 exit tickets
- 2-page Kitchen Basics Quiz (30 points)
- Kitchen skills checklist for IEP data
- Complete answer keys
How to use it
Use it at the start of a FACS, culinary, life skills, special education or independent living course, before the first cooking lab. Teach it as an 8-day unit or pull single pages for stations, sub days and review. Level 1 pages use large print, pictures and circle answers; Level 3 pages stretch students with multi-step conversions and scaling. Every measurement fact matches the USDA and NIST kitchen measurement tables, and every scaled amount has been checked.
Skills practiced
Kitchen tools and their usesdry vs. liquid measuringleveling and packingmeasuring spoonsabbreviationsmeasurement equivalentsreading a recipecooking termsdoubling, halving and scaling recipes with fractions
