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(Unit 5) Topic 8: Cooking Up Fun!

4 Clock Hours of Early Childhood Education

Unit 5 Topic 8 Agenda:

​Topic 8 Page 1

1. Unit 5 Topic 8: Cooking Up Fun! * Agenda
2. Cooking is King​
3. Cooking in Your Program
4. Toddlers can cook?
5. Preparing Community Lunch Reflection ​
6. Cooking with Preschoolers​
7. Teaching Preschoolers about Cooking
8. ​School-age Chefs​​
9. Connecting Cooking ​​
10. Social Development and Cooking​
11. Check for Understanding * Social Development ​
12. Fine and Gross Motor Skills​
13. Cooking Supports Motor Development​
14. Check for Understanding * Motor Skills  ​
15. Executive Function while Cooking​
16. Check for Understanding * Executive Function 
17. ​Cooking for Life
18. Nutrition in the Kitchen
19. Making it Work
20. Share Your Tips
21. Great List of Kid Friendly Recipes
22. Creating Healthy Recipes Example Lesson Plan​
23. End of Topic 8 Assessment Quiz​

Competency Statement V 
​Unit 5 Evaluation Form
​Unit 5 Review

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Topic 8 Course Description:
4 Clock Hours
CDA Settings:

• Infant/Toddler
• Preschool
• Family Child Care (Mixed-Age)

A child’s health is directly linked to the food that they eat. Guiding children, from a very young age, to choose healthy meals can pose a challenge for many educators and parents. Including the children in the process of preparing and cooking meals and snacks can support social development, health and safety skills, executive function, fine motor skill practice and more. This course will outline the benefits of cooking with children of all ages as well as some realistic suggestions and healthy recipe ideas. The culminating course assignment will be an opportunity for providers to create their own healthy cooking lesson plan to use when cooking with kids!

Learning Outcomes:

• Explain the connections between program planning, curriculum, and cooking
• State the lifelong benefits of cooking with children
• Describe the impact of cooking and social development in young children
• Summarize executive function as it relates to cooking
• Examine fine and gross motor skills as they relate to cooking
• Create a sample cooking activity for young children

**  A special thank you to Aurora Tollestrup, BS Ed for developing the curriculum for this topic. **

TRAINING REFERENCES

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