Unit Title:
Name:
Catering Unit
Mrs. Chelsea Zeman
Rationale:
Project Overview:
Subject(s):
Number of Lessons: 13
Applied Skills (Period 1 & 2)
Time: (in weeks)
Grade(s):
9
8
This unit is designed to give students the opportunity to experience and practice organizing and running a mini event. There are
multiple skills required in organizing and running successful events including, effective communication, problem-solving,
creativity, technology, leadership and motivation. The skills that you will learn during this unit are skills that can be applied to
many other aspects in life, such as jobs, high school, university, college, and much more.
Students will be placed into teams of four. At the end of the unit, during class time, the team will create an appetizing meal for
approximately 25 students. Each person will be assigned a role within their group, which they will be held accountable for
during the process of the project. The groups will be given $30 for which they must produce a budget of all the ingredients. They
will also be required to design a business logo and create a menu for their event.
PLOs from IRPs:
Applied Skills 11
PLOs
Problem-Solving
• use appropriate problem-solving models in the design of products, the provision of services, the development of systems, and the utilization of ideas
• analyse and use appropriate problem solving strategies and critical thinking when resolving problems in a variety of contexts
• identify and apply appropriate knowledge, skills, and attitudes when making choices and defending decisions
• use appropriate criteria and standards to assess and evaluate products, services, systems, and ideas
Communication
• use effective communication skills when gathering and sharing information independently and in groups
• select appropriate information gathering and communication tools when solving problems related to applied skills areas
• use appropriate multimedia and information technology in presentations
Technology
• use appropriate technologies in a variety of applied contexts
• maintain an orderly and safe environment when engaged in a variety of activities
• identify and evaluate the impact of technology on the way information is gathered, problems are solved, and work is done
Self and Society
• demonstrate an ability to assess the impact that acquiring applied skills can have on personal and career choices
• demonstrate a positive attitude toward lifelong health and well being
• demonstrate a willingness to participate independently and interdependently in a productive environment
Prerequisite
Concepts and Skills:
Teacher Preparation
Required:
The unit will cover all of the concepts and skills required to successfully complete the catering project.
Extensions to Unit:
If time permits a section on advertising may be added to the unit, where they learn a sample of advertising techniques and then
create an advertisement for their catering businesses.
Laptops will need to be reserved for a number of classes and or computer labs.
Lunchroom kitchen will be used on the day of the cooking labs.
Resources:
Contact Okanagan College Catering to arrange for class to possibly come observe them working, or contact Pearsons Deli to see
if they would come be a guest speaker.
Overview of Lessons:
Lesson #
and Title
- PLOs in lesson
- Specific lesson
objectives (swbat)
Teacher Activities
1) Business and
Workplace
Qualities & Skills
(1 class)
PLO: Communication:
Use effective
communication skills
when gathering and
sharing information
independently and in
groups
Self & Society:
Demonstrate an ability
to assess the impact
that acquiring applied
skills can have on
personal and career
choices
- Introduction and “Get to
Know Me” worksheets
SWBAT:
- Identify and
describe skills &
qualities needed
to work in a
business or to
run a successful
business
- PPT lecture – review of Unit
and topics to be covered
Student Activities
Assessment
Strategies
- Students fill out ‘Get to
Know Me’ worksheets.
- Brainstorm
- Class discussion
- Note taking
- Commonalities activity
- Student’s
participation and
collaboration in
brainstorm activity
- Participation
during class
discussion
(attention, focus,
& listening skills)
- Exit Slips
- Students fill out their
personal goals of the
catering project (student
workbook)
- KWL activity
- Listening & focus
during lesson
- Completion of
personal goals
worksheet
- Web chart brainstorming
qualities needed to be
successful in business or the
workplace (e.g., leadership,
commitment to customer
service, creativity,
communication skills,
honesty, integrity) and discuss
why each is important.
Materials
(Specific to This
Lesson)
- PowerPoint
presentation
- Projector
- ‘Get to Know
Me’ worksheet
- Chart paper
- Markers and
felts
- Extra paper for
Exit slips
- Commonalities activity
(developing interpersonal
skills)
- CLOSURE: Explain what exit
slips are. Exit slip: 3 W’s
2) Overview of
Catering Project
/ Personal Goals
(1 class)
PLO: Communication:
Use effective
communication skills
when gathering and
sharing information
independently and in
groups
Problem-Solving:
- Explain catering workbook
and worksheets included in
the workbook
- Provide details of catering
project and requirements
- Student
Catering
workbook
- PPT explaining
goals and
student
workbook
Identify and apply
appropriate
knowledge, skills, and
attitudes when making
choices and defending
decisions
SWBAT:
- Plan and set
specific goals
3) Nutrition
labelling
(1 - 2 classes)
PLOs: Self & Society
Demonstrate an ability
to assess the impact
that acquiring applied
skills can have on
personal and career
choices
SWBAT:
- Read food
nutrition labels,
identifying and
understanding all
the different
label categories
- Understand the
importance of
eating well, a
healthy lifestyle,
and giving to
others
- PPT Explaining the purpose of
goals and get Ss to fill out
their goals worksheet
- Extra paper to
write Exit slips
- CLOSURE: KWL of catering:
Get students to write on
sticky notes, and place on the
poster paper in the
appropriate column
- Exit slip: List three students
with whom you would like to
work with on the catering
project. Be sure to write your
name at the top.
- Intro: Have a few food
packages at the front of the
class and point out the
nutrition label on them and
ask if anyone ever reads
these.
- Class discussion on the
importance of eating healthy
- Watch Label Reading 101
6.41min video
https://www.youtube.com/w
atch?v=MrdCBqFYDyo
- Do a word wall on the
nutrition table categories
Closure: Red, Yellow, & Green
- Watch Label Reading
video and take notes
- Ss go to http://www.hcsc.gc.ca/fn-an/labeletiquet/nutrition/cons/in
dex-eng.php
then summarize the
content of each category
into the worksheet
provided in the catering
workbook
- Visit interactive nutrition
labelling website and
complete online quiz
- Monitor students
listening and focus
skills during video
- Completion of
online quiz
- Completion of
label category
worksheet
- Food packages
- Laptops or
computer lab
- Projector to
watch video
- Internet
- Student’s need
their catering
workbook
which contains
the category
worksheet
4) Teamwork,
Collaboration, &
Brainstorm
(1 class)
PLOs:
Communication:
Use effective
communication skills
when gathering and
sharing information
independently and in
groups
SWBAT:
- Plan and set
team specific
goals
- Practice their
teamwork skills
exit slip
- Assign Ss to their catering
business group and Ss pick
their dates for cooking lab
- (P1 either April 3, 9, 10, or 12)
- Ss complete their team
- Completion of
goals worksheets
team goals
- Ss get together with their
worksheet
groups and brainstorm
- Observe how well
(P2 either April 5, 11, 12, or 16)
recipe ideas
students are
- Discuss types of team goals
They can check this
collaborating
- Ss complete their team goals
website for top 8 recipes
within their groups
worksheet
http://www.heartandstr - Observe how
- Find out Ss who have allergies
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groups make their
- Game: Review of nutrition
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final choice in
labels. Situate desks in a horse
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picking their meal
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nutrition label gets to move
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on.
s
- Talk about the common rules - In their catering groups
of brainstorming (help them
students will visit
know how to conduct their
http://www.urbanfare.co
discussion)
m/ to look up food items
1. Collect as many ideas as
to possibly use for their
possible from everyone.
meal and to compare
2. All ideas are listed.
nutrition labels
3. No discussion until
brainstorming is complete.
4. Do not judge or criticize
any idea.
5. Build upon ideas.
6. Set a time limit.
- Ss get in groups to brainstorm
- Student
workbooks
- Extra paper for
students to
make web
charts for
possible meals
and recipes
5) Business
Names, Logos,
& Slogans
(2-3 classes)
- PLO: d), f) i
SWBAT:
- Understand the
importance of a
business name,
logo, and slogan
- Create a
company name
and slogan
- Design a logo
- Develop their
creativity skills
- Practice their
teamwork skills
and research recipe ideas. Ss
select their meal.
- Hook: Questions:
- What does the drawing on the
board (the Nike swoosh)
represent ?
- What other symbols for
companies can you name?
- PPT lecture: Define key terms
logo and slogan. Explain the
importance of a business
name, logo and slogan
- PPT: Explain the types of logos
(font-based, symbol, initial, &
abstract); Discuss steps and
things to consider when
designing a logo, i.e. what
message do you want your
logo to convey?
- Ss complete popular business
logos worksheet.
6) Introduction to
Microsoft Excel
& Budgets
(2-3 classes)
PLO: Technology
• use appropriate
technologies in a
variety of applied
contexts
- When Ss finish their business
logo, name, & slogan have
students complete the peer
assessment and selfassessment
- Demonstration/lecture on
Microsoft Excel and budgets.
What is a budget and why do
we use budgets?
- Note taking
- Groups look at
worksheet of popular
business logos and
analyze them. What
makes them unique,
memorable, etc.
- In their groups students
visit logo site to see
various types of logos
http://www.logotypes.ru
/default_e.asp
- http://www.seeklogo.co
m/popular-logos.html
- Groups create their
business name, logo, and
slogan on a poster paper
which will be posted on
the classroom wall
** Ss will have the next
class to work on their
posters
- Assess listening &
focus during lesson
- Completion of
popular logos
worksheet
- Participation in
group work
- How well students
are collaborating
within their groups
and focus while
creating logos
- PowerPoint
presentation
- Projector
- Laptops or
computer lab
- Popular
business logos
activity
worksheet
- Poster paper
- Felts, markers,
glue
- Practice using Excel by
replicating the personal
budget handout
- Assess student’s
suggestions and
participation in
opening discussion
- Laptops
- Internet
- Excel Budget
(Practice
• maintain an orderly
and safe environment
when engaged in a
variety of activities
• identify and evaluate
the impact of
technology on the way
information is
gathered, problems are
solved, and work is
done
7) Grocery Budget
(1-2 class)
- Give Ss the excel handouts to
learn how to make a
spreadsheet. See website for
handouts:
http://stellys.sd63.bc.ca/mod
/folder/view.php?id=4802
Closure Questions: What is the
purpose of a budget? Why is it
important to use Excel when
budgeting?
SWBAT:
- Demonstrate
understanding of
Microsoft Excel
program
application
- Read and
comprehend
Excel terminology
- Understand the
importance of a
budget
- PLO: b), c), d)
- Explain grocery budget
SWBAT:
assignment (KLO has a
- Demonstrate
budget of $30 per group)
understanding of - Ss work in their groups to
Microsoft Excel
complete their grocery
program
budgets
- Develop problem
solving skills
when preparing
budgets
- Learn to find
prices of foods
and practice
- In their catering groups
students will: using
grocery store flyers and
websites
(http://www.urbanfare.c
om/ ) search for their
catering meal ingredients
online
- They will gather all of the
prices and enter them
into Excel to create their
grocery budget
- Look up the nutritional
- Monitor and
observe students
while they are
replicating the
personal budget
worksheet
- Review student’s
worksheets,
checking formulas
and cell formatting
Worksheet)
- Excel handouts
- Assess students
Excel budget
sheets, checking
formulas and cell
formatting; within
budget
- Projector
- Laptops or
computer lab
- Student’s need
their catering
workbook
which contains
the nutritional
worksheet
8) Menu Design
(1 -2 classes)
reading nutrition
labels using flyers
and grocery
websites
- PLO: a) & d)
SWBAT:
- Work
collaboratively
with their groups
to create a menu
design
values to be entered into
the catering workbook
menu nutritional chart)
9) Safety in the
Kitchen
(1 class)
- PLO: e) i
SWBAT:
- Learn the steps
to set up and
clean up for the
kitchen and
equipment when
making a meal
- Identify what to
do and not to do
when in the
kitchen and
preparing meals
- Play 18min Kitchen and Food
Safety Meals in Minutes video
- Time for students fill out their
worksheets
- Take Ss to kitchen to show
them around and where all
the equipment and utensils
are kept.
- Watch Safety in the
Kitchen video
- Fill out Meals in Minutes
worksheet included in
catering workbook
- Ss take a tour of the
kitchen
- Assess students
suggestions and
participation in
opening discussion
questions
- Cooperation
during group work
on creating menu
- Exit slip
- How well students
are listening and
focused during
video
- Completion of
Meals in Minutes
worksheet
10) Cooking lab
(3 classes)
- PLO: demonstrate a
- Experiential learning: students
work together in their groups
to prepare a meal for the rest
of the class
- While waiting for the meals,
the rest of the class will be
playing games
- Two groups will be
preparing meals in the
lunchroom kitchen (8
students)
- The rest of class will be
playing the interactive
jeopardy game reviewing
- Assess how well
students are
working together
as a team while
they are preparing
the meals
- Check that
positive attitude
toward lifelong
health and well
being.
SWBAT:
- Practice making
healthy meals
- Explain the design a menu
assignment
- Closing: Reflection Exit Slip two things they learned and
one thing they want to learn
- Group discussion
- Groups work on creating
and designing their
catering menu
- Projector
- Laptops or
computer lab
- Internet
-
- Ensure
lunchroom
kitchen is
available for
cooking lab
days
- Possibly
- Kitchen and
Safety Meals in
Minutes video
- Meals in
Minutes
worksheet
(included in
student’s
catering
workbook)
- Laptops
- Build their
teamwork skills
and cooperating
as a group to
prepare a meal
for their
classmates
- Develop time
management &
organizational
skills
- Hand out peer evaluations for
the cooking lab
the catering unit while
waiting for the meal
- Class fills out peer
evaluation rubric for the
two groups that
prepared the meals on
that day
- The two cooking groups
are to fill out an
evaluation form for their
own groups
students are doing
their assigned
roles for cooking
and helping out
where needed
-
-
-
11) Debrief &
Reflection
(1 class)
Self and Society
• demonstrate an
ability to assess the
impact that acquiring
applied skills can have
on personal and career
choices
SWBAT:
- Reflect on their
catering projects;
what they
learned about
themselves
- Class discussion on what the
- Students fill out their self - Review students
students thought of their
assessment forms in their
self-assessments
cooking day
catering workbooks; did
- Ss play an interactive jeopardy
they meet their goals; did
game which reviews the
they think their team met
topics learned throughout the
their group goals etc.
catering unit
- Students complete exit
slip
- Exit Slip: One thing they liked
about the overall catering unit
and one thing they would do
differently
Reflections/Revisions (if necessary, continue on separate sheet):
Cooking Lab Group Checklist Evaluation Form
-
videotape
students
cooking
Ensure students
have all of their
ingredients
Games for rest
of class to play
while waiting
Evaluation form
for class
Evaluation
checklist form
cooking groups
PowerPoint of
Jeopardy game
Student’s need
their catering
workbook
which contains
the selfassessment
worksheet