CTF Detailed Challenge Guide

Personal Heritage Cookbook

Grade

7/8/
9

Challeng
e
Essential
Question

What foods are important to your family? What foods are

important to your heritage?

Create a personal heritage cookbook for your family. Research

Challenge
Description and compile a list of foods important to your heritage (example:

gnocchi for Italian, pierogi or borscht for Ukrainian, curry for East
Indian). Your cookbook must include 3 recipes for breakfast,
lunch, dinner, desserts, and special occasions that may apply to
your heritage (Passover, Day of the Dead (Mexico). You must also
provide a brief historical write up about the importance of these
meals in your heritage. Answer WHY these recipes are important
and recognized in your heritage and in your family.

Scenario

1. Research your heritage by asking your relatives. Ask about your

heritage and where your ancestors came from. Ask about any
important meals or traditions that have been passed down from
generation to generation in your family. Write down these notes to
use for your research.
2. Once you know more about your heritage, begin to research
important foods, meals, and dishes that are apart of the cultures
that make up your heritage. *Heads up! Sometimes different parts
of a country have different traditions-so know exactly what country
and where you are researching. Make sure you are writing these
down.
3. Make a list of some meals and dishes you could include in your
cookbook. Search for breakfast, lunch, dinners, desserts, and any
other important traditional foods or meals for celebrations. Make
sure you have at least 3 for each!! Make sure you are writing these
down.

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4. From all of the recipes you have found, narrow down the recipes
you have found to have at least 3 for each: breakfast, lunch, dinner,
dessert, and special occasions.
5. Compile these recipes into a cookbook. Make sure each recipe has
BOTH ingredients AND directions!!!
6. Also include in your cookbook a title page, table of contents,
author/artist statement.
7. You must also include a historical write up about the importance of
these meals in your heritage! Answer the following questions to
help you with this rationale:
-Why are these foods eaten in this culture?
-Are these foods grown here?
-Do these meals symbolize an important event or tradition?
-What is the traditional way to cook these meals or use these
ingredients?
*Get creative with your cookbook and jazz it up with your own
personality! Perhaps you want to include some graphics or images.

Occupation BUSINESS
Computing Science
al Areas

Financial
Enterprise & Innovation Management
Information
Processing
COMMUNICATION
Communication
Technology
HUMAN SERVICES
Community Care
Services
Cosmetology
Esthetics
RESOURCES
Agriculture
Environmental
Stewardship
TECHNOLOGY
Construction
Electro-Technologies

Skills,
Knowledge
and
Technologi
es Related

Management &
Marketing
Networking

Design Studies

Fashion Studies

Foods
Health Care
Services
Human & Social
Services

Legal Studies
Recreation
Leadership
Tourism

Forestry
Primary Resources

Wildlife

Fabrication
Logistics

Mechanics

Foods (FOD): Examine the role of food, looking beyond consumption to

production, visual appreciation, nutrition, meal planning, economics and
preparation; and learn the various skills in the cook trade.

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to the
Occupation Possible Occupations: baker, chef, cook, kitchen helper, food assembler,
bartender, flight attendant, restaurant manager, caterer, dietitian, dietary
al Areas

technician, health department food inspector/environmental health officer,

food manufacturer entrepreneur, food stylist, food journalist, food
photographer, food/restaurant critic, farmer, community garden
coordinator, food distributor food wholesaler, grocery store
manager/worker, farmers market coordinator, agronomist, food scientist.

Safety
and/or
Environme
ntal
Concerns

Maintain a clean, sanitary and safe work area.

Apply food storage and cooking precautions for safe food handling related
to bacteria, viruses and molds.
Explain the benefits of hand washing, and apply effective and appropriate
hand washing techniques.
Know the health and safety issues for cooks and the preventive measures
that should be
adopted.

Equipment
and/or
Consumabl
es

Computer, printer, pencil crayons/markers, paper, family members to interview and

research, cookbooks and recipes.

Interdiscipli
nary
Learning
Opportuniti
es

SUBJECTS
English Language Arts
Fine Arts
French Language Arts
French Second
Language

(CTF
challenges
can be standalone courses
or
interdisciplina
ry.)

Health and Life

Skills
Mathematics
Outdoor Education
Physical Education

Religious Education
Science
Social Studies
Other

CTF Learning Outcomes: Identify the learning outcomes from the CTF Program of
Studies that will be addressed in this challenge.
I explore my interests and passions while making personal connections to career
possibilities.
I use occupational area skills, knowledge and technologies.
I follow safety requirements associated with occupational areas and related
technologies.
I demonstrate environmental stewardship associated with occupational areas.
I plan in response to challenges.
I make decisions in response to challenges.
I adapt to change and unexpected events.
I solve problems in response to challenges.
I create products, performances or services in response to challenges.
I appraise the skills, knowledge and technologies used to respond to challenges.
I communicate my learning.
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I determine how my actions affect learning.
I develop skills that support effective relationships.
I collaborate to achieve common goals.

Competencies: Identify the competencies that will be addressed in this challenge.

Know how to learn
Think critically
Identify and solve complex problems
Manage information
Innovate
Create opportunities
Apply multiple literacies
Demonstrate good communication skills and the ability to work cooperatively with
others
Demonstrate global and cultural understanding
Identify and apply career and life skills

Literacy and Numeracy: Identify how the challenge supports the development of
literacy and numeracy.
Literacy is the ability, confidence and
willingness to engage with language to acquire,
construct and communicate meaning in all
aspects of daily living.

Numeracy is the ability, confidence and

willingness to engage with quantitative or spatial
information to make informed decisions in all
aspects of daily living.

Students recognize that literacy provides

enjoyment and enables them to make sense
of and participate in the world around them.
Students identify what they know, are
able to do and need to learn when engaging
in tasks that involve literacy.
Students are aware of the literacy
demands within a tack.
Students use rules of language to acquire,
construct and communicate meaning.
Students use efficient and effective
strategies to acquire, evaluate and ethically
use information.
Students use efficient and effective
strategies to construct meaning.
Students communicate to convey
concepts, ideas and understandings.

Students recognize that numeracy

enables people to make informed decisions
in all aspects of daily living.
Students identify what they know, are
able to do and need to learn when engaging
in tasks that involve numeracy.
Students are aware of the numeracy
demands within a task.
Students apply knowledge of quantitative
information to make an informed decision.
Students apply knowledge of spatial
information to make an informed decision.
Students interpret, represent and
communicate in a variety of digital and nondigital formats to support decisions in
situations involving numeracy.
Students use efficient and effective
strategies and methods or tools to manage
quantitative or spatial information.

Resources: Identify potentially useful resources for teaching and learning the
challenge.

Food in Every Country http://www.foodbycountry.com

The Food Museum- Food by Heritage http://www.foodmuseum.com/food-heritage
You may want to search cooking websites, magazines, and blogs for interesting
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recipes! Also look at international chefs and international cuisines.
Foods Safety and Environmental Considerations
https://education.alberta.ca/media/3114908/ctf-safety-and-environmentalconsiderations-for-occupational-areas.pdf
You may also want to look at various recipe books in the Foods Room for
inspiration!

External resources are not authorized but are provided as a service to identify potentially useful ideas
for teaching and learning. The responsibility to evaluate these resources rests with the user. Note: All
website addresses listed were confirmed as accurate at the time of publication but are subject to
change.

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