• Draw or name one kitchen tool you have used at home.
• What job did you use it for? One sentence.
• Two minutes. Pencils down when the timer sounds.

• There are eighteen tools on the trays around this room.
• By the end of today you will know all eighteen, what they do, and which drawer they live in.
• Then I hide them and you find them.

• Family 1: Measure (cups, spoons)
• Family 2: Mix and move (bowls, whisk, spoon, spatula, tongs, colander)
• Family 3: Cut and cook (board, shears, opener, peeler, grater, pans, mitt, thermometer)
• Copy the three families onto your handout header.

• Pick it up. Look at it. Put it back where you found it.
• Write on your handout: the name, the job, the family.
• Answer the "which tool" card on the tray.
• Nothing travels to another tray. Whisper.
• Three minutes per tray. Rotate on the reset cue.

• Dry measuring cups: the nested set. Fill, then level.
• Liquid measuring cup: glass, a pour spout, lines on the side, space above the top line.
• Measuring spoons: for small amounts, teaspoons and tablespoons.

• Mixing bowls: small and large; hold and mix.
• Whisk: beats air in; breaks up eggs.
• Wooden spoon: stirs on the stove without scratching.

• Rubber spatula: scrapes a bowl clean; folds; pushes eggs in a pan.
• Tongs: grip and turn hot food. Your fingers stay out of the pan.
• Colander: drains water; rinses produce.

• Cutting board: the surface you cut on. Never the counter.
• Kitchen shears: cut food, open bags. Our main cutting tool.
• Can opener: cans. Watch the lid edge.
• No sharp knives in this room. Butter knives and shears only.

• Peeler: takes skin off carrots and potatoes. Peel away from your hand.
• Grater: shreds cheese and carrots. Knuckles up.
• Sheet pan: flat baking. Nachos, cookies, roasted vegetables.

• Saucepan: tall sides, a lid. Boil, simmer, sauces.
• Skillet: wide and shallow. Fry, scramble, saute.
• Oven mitt: between your hand and anything hot.
• Food thermometer: the only way to know the inside is cooked.

• Every tool has a home. Find where each of the eighteen lives in your station.
• Open, look, close. Nothing comes out of a drawer.
• Draw the drawers on your map. Write each tool's number where it lives.
• Eight minutes. Then: the drawer where the measuring cups live, and the tool that was hardest to find.
• Exit card: 3 tools you can name and place without looking, 2 you mixed up, 1 you have never seen at home.
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Day 2

• Which is more dangerous, a stove or a blender? One reason.
• Hand vote in two minutes.

• The parts.
• The three safe-use steps.
• The one thing that goes wrong most.
• Stove, oven, microwave, mixer, blender.

• Parts: burners, knobs, on and off marks, which knob runs which burner.
• Steps: handle in; knob off the moment the pan comes off; nothing on a burner but a pan.
• Goes wrong: a burner left on; a towel on the burner.

• Parts: racks, door, temperature dial, light.
• Steps: preheat first; mitt on before you touch a rack; the teacher opens the door.
• Goes wrong: a bare hand or a thin towel on a rack; a face over the door when it opens.

• Parts: door, turntable, time buttons, stop button.
• Steps: ceramic, glass, or paper only; cover splatter; paper towel or mitt to take it out.
• Goes wrong: metal or foil inside; a mug that looks cool and is not.

• Parts: beaters, the lock, the speed switch, the bowl.
• Steps: beaters locked in; start on low; hands and spoons out while it runs; unplug before the beaters come out.
• Goes wrong: a spoon in the bowl while it runs.

• Order of ingredients: liquid first, soft next, frozen or hard on top.
• Lid on. One hand on the lid. Then the switch.
• Glass jar vs plastic jar: glass is heavier and does not scratch or hold smells; plastic does not shatter. Both must sit on the base before it runs.
• Nothing goes in while it runs. Unplug before the blade comes out.

• What goes in first? (Liquid.)
• Where is your hand? (On the lid.)
• When can a spoon go in? (Never while it runs. Off and unplugged.)
• Say it three times.

• Scene 1: a pan smoking on a burner that was left on after the food came out.
• Scene 2: a foil tray in the microwave, sparks.
• Name the machine. Name what went wrong. Write the safe procedure that would have stopped it.

• Scene 3: a blender turned on with the lid off.
• Scene 4: a mixer running with a spoon in the bowl.
• Scene 5: an oven rack grabbed with a dish towel.

• Ten items. Alone. Quiet.
• Items 1 to 6: name the tool in the photo.
• Items 7 to 10: which tool, and why.
• Seven minutes.

• Sort the eighteen tools: processing, cooking, holding, storing, serving.
• Write one tool this room is missing and why it matters.
• Write the safe procedure for a machine that is not here (an air fryer, an electric kettle).

• Exit card, one sentence: "The machine I will be most careful with in Lab 1 is ___ because ___."
• Two students read theirs.
• Tomorrow: measuring. Bring your eyes to the counter.