Time Frame:  2.5  hours

Objective

• To inform students about where their food comes from; discuss and implement personal solutions to these shocking truths about what we eat, how it’s produced and who we have become as a nation.

Set

• Is the food that we eat safe?
• How many of you know where your hamburger comes from?
• Who buys produce at our local grocery store? Do you know where it comes from?
• Is where your food comes from important?
• What are the risks involved with producing mass quantities of food?

Activities

• Watch Food Inc. (DVD) 91 minutes

• Class discussion using either the discussion guide or participant book listed below.

Attachments

• For a free discussion guide to use in your classroom created by The Center of Ecoliteracy,  download here (PDF).
• Food Inc.: A Participant Guide: How Industrial Food is Making Us Sicker, Fatter, and Poorer-And What You Can Do About It

Websites

• Food Inc.

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Lesson Plans

• Foodborne Bacteria (Word)
• Analyze Meals & Snacks by Food Guide (Word)
• Chemical Leavening 101-Baking Powder Reaction
• Dish Washing with Sanitizers (PDF)
• Do More with Maple Lesson (PDF)
• Handwashing Lesson (PDF)

PowerPoints

• JWU Plate Presentation (PPT)
• Managing the Family Dollar (PPT)
• Nutrients Jazz (PPT)
• The Safe Foodhandler (PPT)
• Welcome to Foods I (PPT)

Worksheets

• Chicken Broth(Word)
• Cooking at Home (Word)
• Digestive System Notes (Word)
• Hand washing Review (Word)
• Hand washing Rubric (Word)
• Lunch bag Safety (PDF)
• Kitchen Equipment Index (Excel)
• Management of the Family Project Directions (Word)
• Management of the Family Project (Word)
• Management Project (Excel)
• Mini Refrigerator Poster on Sanitation (Word)
• My Pyramid Computer (Word)
• Nutrients Transparency (Word)
• Nutrients Worksheet (Word)
• Nutrients Overview (Word)
• Nutrition E-Tour (Word)
• Nutrition Game (Word)
• Nutrition Game Answers (Word)
• Recipe Chart (Word)
• Sub Sandwich Safety (PDF)
• Yeast Breads for Traditional Block Schedules (PDF)

Extra Credit

• Culinary Extra Credit Paper (Word)

Quizzes

• Food Safety Quiz (PDF)

• Germ Survival Quiz Bowl (PDF)

Links

• Ice cream in a baggie
  

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If you’re like most schools you have to order supplies through companies that take Purchase Orders. It can be so frustrating ordering through catalogs when you can get supplies cheaper locally, nonetheless here are some catalogs that provide FACS supplies.

• Nasco: sells baking pans, cooking equipment, parenting stimulator dolls, fashion DVD’s, Ez-Decorator, interior design DVD’s.
• Sane: sells cake decorating supplies, fabric, notions, rotary cutting supplies, cooking tools, utility carts.
• Learning Seed: educational DVD’s on consumerism, fashion, cooking, child care, design & housing, etc.
• Calico Industries: restaurant and food service equipment.
• Fresh FACS Publishing: A Family Consumer Science publishing company that publishes lesson plans, booklets, and even adorable vintage looking FACS note cards, calendars, recipe cards, etc.
• Meridian Education: DVD, VHS, & Video on Demand Family & Consumer Science Catalog.
• Prevention Resources: Nutrition curriculum, posters, books, games, charts, kits.
• Enjoy Birth & Parenting Education: Printed Guides, DVD’s, PowerPoint Presentations.
• Insight Media: Nutrition, child development, interior design, history of fashion, fashion merchandising, fashion & society, basic design, fashion designers, and textile DVD’s and Powerpoints.

Text Book Publishers

• Delmar Cengage Learning: Offers text books on culinary, food service management, hobbies, home cooking, home cooking & entertaining, hospitality, and travel & tourism. Teachers can request a complimentary copies.
• McGraw Hill: Offers text books on child care, child development & parenting, clothing & fashion, life skills, consumer education & financial literacy, culinary arts, housing & interior design, foods & nutrition, and family living.
• Wiley: Offers text books on culinary, catering, food & writing, hotel  management, food service, gaming industry, conventions, restaurant management, etc. Teachers can request a complimentary copies.

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