The requisite vocabulary to name these implements. Assess each design based on the extent to which students included essential qualities of an ideal pioneer kitchen including utensils, cooking space and their choices of the arrangement. Lifestyles of pioneers - students study foods, diet, the pioneer home, and pioneer work. Students mind-web the parts of a pioneer kitchen that they gained through research Students brainstorm the qualities of a good working kitchen with support from the teacher. Such factors as safety, ease of use and proximity of tools and pots to the cooking space.
Students construct their pioneer kitchen using materials of their choice.
Students justify their decisions by explaining, in writing or orally, how and why their diorama or drawing contains the qualities of an ideal pioneer kitchen. Invite the class to design the remainder of the home around the kitchen they designed.