Daniel

Smith
Subject: 6th Grade Food Industry

Lesson Cycle
Lesson Title/Topic: Food Industry
Target Concept: Understand Jobs and Requirements in Food Production
Standards/Rationale: Science Standards X. E. 3.
Lesson Objectives:

Assessment:

Students will be able to demonstrate an

understanding of the jobs within the food
industry. They will design a menu with a
logo and three items to be served. Along
with the menu the students will describe
three jobs that will be needed at their
restaurant.

Based on the menu they created with the

logo, food, and workers.

Materials: Paper, Pencils, Markers, Colored Pencils, Guided Practice Menu, Dough for focus
Lesson Cycle: (Direct instruction)
The teacher will:
Focus/Mental Set:
Have Youtube video playing as students
enter class.

The student will:

Answer the questions about their

favorite places to eat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR2WMN1
qYJc

Demonstrate a skill learned in the food

industry (ex. hand tossing dough).
Relate the skill to what job does it.
Simultaneously ask questions about the
students favorite places to eat.
Teacher Input:

Ask what the students want to be when

they grow up.

Talk about various jobs in the food
industry.
1. Crew Member (Fast Food)
Age: 16
Education: None
Pay: Minimum Wage
Responsibilities: Working
register, preparing food, cleaning

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Answer questions about what they want

to be.

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Subject: 6th Grade Food Industry

2. Waiter (Restaurant)
Age: 16 or 18 (if they serve
alcohol)
Education: None
Pay: $2.13/hr + tips (must equal
minimum wage)
Responsibilities: Taking orders,
send the orders to the kitchen,
serve the food, collect payment
for the food
Activity
Select a student
Have that student play a
waiter getting drink
orders.
Wait 30 seconds, and
then ask the student what
the order was.
3. Cook (Restaurant)
Age: 16
Education: None
Pay: $10/hr - $14/hr
Responsibilities: preparing food,
cooking food, ensuring the food
meets the standards for health
and presentation
4. Chef (Restaurant)
Age: 18
Education: Experience as a cook
or a culinary degree
Pay: $10/hr - $30/hr
Responsibilities: everything the
cook does, manage the kitchen
team, creating a menu, ordering
food for the next week
5. Manager (Both)
Age: 18
Education: High school diploma,
but a collage degree is preferred
Pay: $15/hr - $30/hr
Responsibilities: Taking care of
day-to-day activities, ensuring
that customers are satisfied,
ordering food and materials for
the next week, preparing reports,
scheduling workers

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Activity
One at a time stand up.
The other students will give a fake
drink order.
Will wait 30 seconds, and then
repeat the order back to the teacher.

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Subject: 6th Grade Food Industry

Have students read the Guided Practice

Menu (3 min.)
Ask the students to share cool or
interesting facts with their neighbors and
think of questions they would like to
ask.
Walk around the room asking, Whats
something cool that you found? to
individual students.
Answer students questions about
reading.
After the 3 min., ask these questions:
1. Is education important in the
food industry?
2. Is it important to be creative?
After each question, discuss the
importance of each.

Read the information on the center

page.
Tell neighbors of cool or interesting
facts.
Think of questions to ask about the
information.

Ask questions they had about the

reading.
Answer question teacher ask with
support of their answer.

Guided Practice:
Instruct the students to create their own
restaurant or fast food chain. Then
create a menu with the logo for their
restaurant and one appetizer, one main
coarse, and one dessert. Must be in color
and include descriptions and prices.
Example is on the front and back of
Guided Practice Menu.
Have the students share their ideas with
the class.
Independent Practice:

Instruct the students, as an extension of

their menu, to write what kind of

workers and how many they will need at
their restaurant. The students should
include a description of what the worker
will do and how much the student would
pay the workers.

Closure:
Ask if any of the students changed their
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Create an idea for their restaurant.

Draw the logo for the restaurant.
Create an appetizer, a main coarse, and
a dessert to be sold at their restaurant.
Draw a picture of the food.
Write a description about their food.
Write a price for their food.
Share with the class.

Write what kind of workers they will

employ at their restaurant.
They will give a description of what the
worker will be responsible for within
their restaurant.

Answer the questions asked.

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Subject: 6th Grade Food Industry

minds about what they want to be when

they grow up.
Ask the students what the coolest part of
the lesson was.

Options:
Enrichment: Have students research
culinary schools. Ask them to report back
their findings, such as what is the cost, and
will it benefit them.

Reteach: Take the students to a real

kitchen and meet a real chef. Allow the
chef to talk about his job.

Modifications/Correctives:
Follow IEPs for each student including
peer/teacher assistance as needed.
References: Personal experience,
http://www.hcareers.com/us/resourcecenter/tabid/306/articleid/514/default.aspx
http://www.prospects.ac.uk/restaurant_manager_job_description.htm
http://www.indeed.com/salary/Restaurant-Manager.html
http://work.chron.com/average-hourly-wage-restaurant-cook-8059.html
http://www.dol.gov/whd/state/tipped.htm
http://job-descriptions.careerplanner.com/waiters-and-waitresses.cfm

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