e Skills Learning minimod™
Food Terminology, Safety and Sanitation
Teacher’s Guide
Introduction
The e Skills Learning minimod™ – Career
Readiness and Preparation App – Food
Terminology, Safety and Sanitation – was
developed to help students practice and master
important word recognition and vocabulary skills
essential for success in listening, speaking, reading and writing skills critical for further training or
coursework and/or successful employment in
today’s culinary industry. The program can be
played in three different ways. Minimod™ Food
Terminology, Safety and Sanitation is one in a
series of content specific software applications
developed by e Skills Learning.
Answering correctly enables the player to place a
marker on the correct response on the game
board. Similar to Bingo, the answer may or may
not be found on the game board. Having the
answer on the game board is a matter of luck.
An incorrect reply will give the player the opportunity to reread the question and answer correctly.
The game board is redrawn with each new game.
Ways to Play
Minimod Food Terminology, Safety and Sanitation is a Bingo-like game that can be played in
single player game mode, multi-player game
mode or practice mode.
Minimod Food Terminology, Safety and Sanitation
challenges students to recognize and understand
vocabulary essential to the food service industry.
Familiar, motivating games like unscrambling the
word, filling in the blanks, and matching words to
the definition give students practice in word
recognition and developing vocabulary related to
food terminology, food safety and sanitation, food
utensils and equipment, etiquette, and food cooking methods and procedures preparing students
for gainful employment or for higher education in
the culinary, food products and service industries.
Practice Level – The student selects the correct
response to answer the prompt. An incorrect response allows the student to read the sentence
again and select the correct answer.
There are four question formats. In the first
format, the player reads a definition and selects
the correct of 3 words to match the definition.
Multi Player – The student plays a Bingo-like
game against another student. The first student
to fill his/her game card with five markers in a row
wins the game.
Another type question requires the player to
select which of 3 words complete a sentence.
The third question format requires the player to
complete the word with the missing letter(s).
The final format presents a word in scrambled
format. The player selects one of 3 words that is
the correct word.
Single Player – The student plays a Bingo-like
game against the computer. He/she reads the
word/definition/sentence. Given three answer
choices, the student will decide which answer is
the best. Correctly identifying the answer allows
the student to place a marker on the game card.
Five markers in a row win the game.
Reading Objectives
Students will practice listening, speaking, reading
and writing vocabulary development – the foundations for success in achieving the career
education standards created by most states.
Students will practice word recognition skills in
the area of food service and culinary arts.
Students will practice spelling skills related to
food services and culinary arts curricula.
Students will develop fluency in word recognition,
which will improve reading comprehension,
preparing students for more advanced course
work and/or employability.
Processing Objectives
Student will develop cognitive processing skills.
Student will build visual memory while moving
from solution of question to placing marker on
game board.
Students will improve visual discrimination skills
finding answers on game board.
Instructional Considerations
• Best first instruction is the most important
instructional strategy among those
employed to prepare students for success in
listening, speaking, reading and writing in
any field or course of study.
• Culinary arts vocabulary should be taught in
a concrete, engaging, hands-on manner.
Each word and the concept it represents
should be explicitly introduced and practiced
before a student is introduced to the Minimod Food Terminilogy, Safety, and Sanitation App
• Students need many opportunities to hear
and read the words as well as to use the vocabulary expressively in their speaking and
writing. The vocabulary should be used in
different contexts so the student will be able
to generalize the words to new situations.
• The words practiced in this app fit Beck,
McKeown, and Kucan's (2002) definition of
Tier 3 words. Tier 3 words are words limited
to specific domains (content areas) and of
low frequency (not often used in other content areas).
• Tier 1 words consist of basic words--clock,
baby, happy, walk, etc. Beck, McKeown, and
Kucan estimate there are 8,000! word families in Tier 1. If students were to learn these
words between kindergarten and ninth
grade, they would be required to learn about
700 words each year. To learn this many
words per year, students need to practice
the words over time and multiple
encounters.
• Second tier words are high frequency words
and are found across a variety of topics and
are frequently referred to as academic vocabulary. For example, coincidence, absurd,
industrious, and fortunate are Tier 2 words.
Tier 2 words number about 7,000.
• Students don't learn words by copying definitions from the dictionary or writing a sentence using the word. Students need to be
engaged and have a positive attitude toward
learning words.
• Effective vocabulary instruction includes:
• Frequent encounters with the word
• Richness of instruction, and
• Extension of word use beyond the
classroom.
REFERENCES
Beck, Isabel; McKeown, Margaret; & Kucan, Linda; Bringing
Words to Life - Robust Vocabulary Instruction; The Guilford
Press; 2002.
Vocabulary Words Included in this App
cuisine
delicate
piquant
farinaceous
portion
buffet
essence
gluten
al dente
absorption
consistency
emulsion
filling
congealed
coagulated
flaky
croquette
efficient
opaque
manipulate
spread
wet filling
potpourri
texture
tender
ready-to-serve
tough
dry filling
unmold
pungent
staples
nonperishable
spoilage
pantry
vermin
perishable
dry storage
frozen storage
rusting
refrigerated storage
antiseptic
agent
cooler
wholesome
detergent
leavening
enzyme
toxin
homogenize
en papillote
yeast
frozen concentrate
fermentation
carbon dioxide
shrinkage
pasteurization
accident
danger zone
break down
contagious
FIFO
clean
fire extinguisher
food borne illness
frills
flashpoint
hazard
insecticides
hygiene
microorganisms
intoxication
first aid
food poisoning
infection
sanitation
particle contamination
pesticides
sanitize
personal hygiene
outbreak
sterilize
sanitary
OSHA
mold
potentially hazardous
safety
contamination
cross contamination
bacteria
cleaning
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