Life Skills & Google Classroom

The Johnson County SNAP-Ed Senior Assistant conducted 6 youth lessons with the Johnson County Middle Schools 7^th and 8^th grade Life Skills class via Google Classroom. Using the Teen Cuisine curriculum during the lessons, the topics discussed were the 5 food groups, culinary skills, nutrition facts, and food safety, reading labels, and healthy choices. We also set up a live food demonstration at the end of each class. The teacher made the recipes before each class began, this allowed the students to sample the finished product after they watched the SNAP-Ed Senior Assistant demonstrate the recipe through google classroom. 

On the last day, the students were allowed to ask questions and make comments about what they had learned. All the students showed 100% improvement in their food safety and culinary skills. They all enjoyed watching the food demonstrations and sampling the foods afterward. One Student said that she was taking all the recipes home for her mother to start using because a family member had diabetes and would love to try the new foods. A week later a parent of one of the students contacted the SNAP-Ed assistant. She talked about how her daughter came home asking to make the new recipes from her class. She made a grocery list of all the ingredients and asked to go shopping with her mother. She told her mother that the Life Skills class was her favorite part of her day.