Essential Kitchen Safety Skills Video Project

Outcome Objectives:
Students will be able to:
-- Know and demonstrate safe kitchen skills relative to kitchen cleanliness, personal cleanliness, promoting food sanitation, knife skills, preventing fires and burns, guarding against food contamination and proper food preparation and storage.
-- Demonstrate technology knowledge in the use of video equipment and editing software in order to produce a movie in Windows Movie Maker.


Materials:
Class textbook
Internet - school subscription databases for research
Flip video camera
Computer with Windows movie maker software
Kitchen work area including appropriate, necessary utensils
Computer projector for viewing presentations

Procedures:
1. Students will be assigned to a group of three members.
2. Student groups will research an assigned topic (Kitchen Cleanliness, Personal Cleanliness, Food Sanitation, Foodborne Illness, Cross Contamination, Preventing Fires and Burns, Safe Knife Skills, Preventing Chemical Poisonings, Sanitation in Food Preparation and Storage)
a. Students will use resources such as class textbook and the Internet to provide information for their demonstration and movie.
3. Students will collaborate on information found and develop an outline and a script for the video.
4. Teacher will provide instruction in the creation of video including pre-filming, videotaping, storyboarding, editing film and exporting video.
5. Students will create a storyboard of the video.
6. The student group will determine a role for each participant, i.e., videographer and actors.
7. Students will video tape the demonstration
8. Students will collaborate on importing the footage into Windows Movie Maker, editing the film and exporting it for viewing and presentation
9. Students will present their Kitchen Safety video to the class
10. Students will lead a class discussion of the safety skill presented

Requirements:
-- Video must be 3 -4 minutes in length and include a title slide, textual information on at least 2 slides and a credits slide at the end. Additionally the video must include at least 2 transitions.

-- Researched information in the form of the actor’s script must be typed and turned in for grading
--Storyboard of video scenes must be turned in for grade

Assessment:
Students will be graded on organization, accuracy and clarity of the content presented, visual display of the storyboard, creativity of the script, acting/presentation, grammar/spelling, efforts and use of the video technology.

Time guideline:
5 days (1 day for technology/video training, 1 days for research, script and story board creation, 1 day to film, 1 day to import, edit and export the film and 1 day for class to view all videos and discuss the Safety information presented.