Cooking Class Teaches Problem Solving, Teamwork

The Joplin (MO) Globe (10/22, Pound) reports on students in Family and Consumer Science teacher Kim Hoover's cooking class at Carthage Junior High School, many of whom "come into her classroom for the first time with little or no kitchen knowledge." Hoover "has noticed a troubling trend" over the years that "fewer and fewer families...actually sit down to homemade family dinners." In addition to learning their way around the kitchen, Hoover noted that students "learn to follow directions. They learn problem solving. They learn, when cooking in a group, to work as a team. They learn to use math skills, and they learn how to follow a budget. And, as they did one day last week, they learned how to make tacos using homemade tortillas." The article includes the recipes the students have recently learned.