Slide outline for Lesson 1.1. Fourteen slides. The six station photo slides double as the stations for the no-kitchen version and as the review slides before the Kitchen Safety Exam. [Sal: replace each described image with a photo of your own staged station; take them the day you set the hazards.]
Hunt the Hazard
- Lesson 1.1: Safe and Clean
- Today: find twelve things in this room that could hurt somebody
- I put them there
Teacher notes
Image: a wide shot of the FACS room with the stations, nothing obviously wrong at first glance.
Leave this up while students enter. Do not say anything about the hazards yet.
Do now
- Think of a kitchen you know: home, a relative's, a restaurant
- Write one thing in it that could hurt somebody
- One sentence, two minutes
Teacher notes
Cold call four students. Write their hazards in a column on the board. Then say the hook: twelve things in this room right now, eight minutes to find them.
The six hazard families
- Burns: hot pans, hot water, steam, the oven
- Cuts: anything sharp
- Falls: anything you can slip or trip on
- Fire: anything that can catch
- Electrical: cords, plugs, water near outlets
- Food contamination: germs getting into food
Teacher notes
Image: a row of six small pictures, one per family: a steaming pot, a pair of shears, a wet floor sign, a flame, a plug, a raw chicken next to bread.
The rule to say out loud: if it can burn, cut, trip, spark, or make you sick, it is a hazard. Students copy the six families onto the handout header.
Rules of the hunt
- Look, do not touch
- Write, do not fix
- Whisper
- 90 seconds per station, then the reset cue: lights, countdown, hands empty
- Teams of four, one clipboard, everyone writes
Teacher notes
Say "look, write, leave it" twice before the timer starts. Students who fix a hazard cost their team the station.
Station 1
Teacher notes
Image: a stove with a pot on the front burner, handle turned out over the edge of the stove into the walkway; a toaster cord draped across the back burner.
Two hazards here: burns (handle) and electrical (cord). Most teams find the handle; about half find the cord.
Station 2
Teacher notes
Image: the sink area; a wet dish towel on the floor in front of the sink; an upper cabinet door left open at head height.
Falls (towel). The open cabinet is the one students argue about; accept it as a hazard in any family with a reason.
Station 3
Teacher notes
Image: a sink full of soapy water; the tip of a pair of kitchen shears just visible under the suds.
Cuts. Ask in the debrief: if you could not see it, how would you know it was there? Answer: you would not, which is why sharp tools never go in the sink.
Station 4
Teacher notes
Image: a cutting board with a labeled package of raw chicken (a prop) touching a loaf of sliced bread.
Food contamination. This slide introduces the words cross contamination, taught in Lesson 1.2.
Station 5
Teacher notes
Image: a counter with a spray bottle that has no label, sitting next to a bowl of fruit; an oven mitt with a hole in the thumb hanging on the oven handle.
The unlabeled bottle is the hazard nobody finds. Save it for Lesson 1.3, where the Safety Data Sheets come in. The mitt is burns.
Station 6
Teacher notes
Image: a stove with a roll of paper towels sitting on the counter so close that the loose end touches the burner grate; a wet oven mitt draped on the oven door.
Fire (paper towel) and burns (wet mitt). Ask in the debrief what steam does to wet cloth.
Your team's top five
- Of everything you found, which five could hurt someone the worst in this room?
- Rank them 1 to 5
- One sentence each: why is it that serious?
- Everyone writes the team's list on their own sheet
- 8 minutes
Teacher notes
Grade 6 teams do a top three. Grade 8 teams also write which Room and Lab Agreement rule each one breaks.
Debrief
- One reporter per team: your number 1 and why
- The class answers: what stops it?
- The ones nobody found
- Class score: ___ out of 12
Teacher notes
Write each team's number 1 on the board. Reveal any planted hazard nobody found. The count is the class score; keep it and compare with the exam pass rate.
Exit card
- 3 hazards you found today
- 2 prevention steps you will use at home
- 1 question you still have about kitchen safety
Teacher notes
Three students read one line aloud. Sort the cards into "got it" and "needs more" before the next period.
Tomorrow
- Germs you cannot see
- Handwashing, the danger zone, cross contamination
- Optional: find one hazard in your kitchen at home and fix it or tell an adult
Teacher notes
One line. Leave it up while they pack.