Foods cook at home, learn recipes through demo videos

Food classes are also hit hard by the shift to online. 

Rebecca Lawrence, FACS teacher, has been working with her students to make sure they’re all able to complete the assignments they are assigned.

“I make demo videos pertaining to lab assignments for each week and post [the videos] to Canvas,” she said. 

Lawrence encourages her students to conduct small food experiments if they don’t have access to certain foods needed to complete the food assignment. 

“I ask my students how many of them can cook without restrictions/parent supervision and whether or not they have access to ingredients. If a student doesn’t have an ingredient or can’t go to the store, they can research a substitute that they do have on hand at home and use that—it would make a great food science experiment too,” Lawrence said.

If students can’t cook due to parental restrictions or other issues, Lawrence gives her students other assignments that depend upon the circumstance and unit that don’t involve cooking that particular food item. 

“If a student is not allowed to cook at all at home, then I have alternative assignments for them to complete,” Lawrence said.

Many students are enjoying being able to cook at home, but they are missing having Lawrence and their friends around to cook with them.

“I would say the best part of it would be the comfortability of cooking at my house with my family,” senior Austin Laves said. “The worst part, however, is not cooking with all my friends and not having Chef Lawrence with us to help us.”