Part of Lesson Plan: 2. Knife Safety & Sharpening

Activity Overview / Details

TEACHER'S NOTE:  Have a computer, projector, whetstone, steel, chef's knife, and Knife Sharpening & Safety Worksheet ready for this lesson.  Use a large white board to write your daily agenda for the students to see and read as they enter the room.  Anything that needs to be turned in that day put a big red check, such as the worksheet.

AGENDA

Mystery Lesson . . .

What Every Chef Must Know

What Is It?

*Worksheet

 " Wonder is the start of wisdom" . . . Socrates

OPTIONS:

1.  Have a whetstone on the demo table and a sign "What Is It?     AND / OR

2.  Show the PowerPoint of the wetstone slide.

Ask students to raise their hand if they know what it is.  Take student guesses.  ( So far none of my ~1200 students have known what a whetstone is or how to use it).

Next describe what a whetstone is, or show PowerPoint slide with description.