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Create Your Own: Salad Dressing
Salad dressing is easy to make at home! In this lesson, you will learn how to make a salad dressing and practice your skills using a flexible recipe.
Grade: 
6 – 8, 9 – 12
Progression:
8 of 10
Create Your Own: Quick Organic Pickles
Pickles are a delicious snack or accompaniment to many different foods. Pickling – the process of fermenting in a salt brine or using vinegar to preserve and flavor vegetables – is believed to be the oldest method of preserving food and dates back to over 4,000 years old.
Grade: 
6 – 8, 9 – 12
Progression:
3 of 10
Your Perfect Slice
Why is practice important to mastering a skill? What is pride? And how does it show up at work? In this lesson, you will listen to a short story from StoryCorps and answer a few questions that hone in on taking pride in one's work and the importance of practice.
Grade: 
6 – 8, 9 – 12
Progression:
2 of 10
4 Levels Of...
The same dish can look very different based on who is cooking it. A beginning home cook’s version of scrambled eggs might be very different from a professional chef’s.
Grade: 
6 – 8, 9 – 12
Progression:
3 of 9
How to Read a Recipe
Have you ever read a recipe only to still not know where to start? Have you ever gotten halfway through cooking something and realized you missed a key step? These are common setbacks in the kitchen that can be avoided with purposeful recipe reading.
Grade: 
3 – 5, 6 – 8, 9 – 12
Progression:
6 of 9
A Clean Kitchen
In this lesson you’ll learn (or review) the basics of keeping a kitchen clean. This will help you understand what needs to be cleaned in a kitchen and how to clean those things. You will also learn fun strategies to make cleaning feel less of a hassle by practicing cleaning habits of mind.
Grade: 
3 – 5, 6 – 8, 9 – 12, Whole Family
Progression:
7 of 9
What is Flavor?
What is taste? What is flavor? There are five essential tastes along with countless more smells that combine to make flavors. Investigating how foods complement each other is important to understanding flavor.
Grade: 
6 – 8
Progression:
8 of 9
What is Organic?
Many of us are familiar with the term organic. Even if we understand what the definition is, we don’t always take the time to explore what organic represents. In this lesson, you will explore and discuss your understanding of what organic is and what it represents to you.
Grade: 
6 – 8, 9 – 12
Progression:
9 of 9
Spin Your Kitchen Reflection Wheel
Your reflection wheel has eight different questions that expand on the question: Are you happy with what you made and how you cooked? Why or why not? Every time you cook, spin your wheel, and reflect on the question you land on. There are a variety of ways to respond to that question.
Grade: 
6 – 8, Whole Family
Sharing What You Made
We want you to share what you are creating with your peers, teacher, or family members. There are a number of different ways you can share what you are creating.
Grade: 
6 – 8, 9 – 12
Progression:
10 of 10
Kitchen Tool Exploration
What stories might a kitchen tool tell? In the Kitchen Habits of Mind lesson, you reflected on the importance of curiosity while cooking. This activity gives you a chance to look at your kitchen with curiosity and make some exciting discoveries about everyday kitchen objects.
Grade: 
3 – 5, 6 – 8, Whole Family
Progression:
4 of 10

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