Activity Number: 2 (Making a Pizza)

ACTIVITY WRITE UP NO. 2

Link used for steps/ingredients/general idea of how to conduct the activity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msmAEbtdivo.

Name of Activity: Making Pizza

Type of modality Cooking

Type of play Shared cooperative

Interaction pattern Intra-group

# of participants required 1 or more

Equipment/supplies  Pizza dough  Pizza sauce  Grated mozzarella cheese  Cooking pan  Spoon  Roller  2 kitchen bowls  Oven  Oven gloves  Pizza cutter or knife to cut the pizza Facilities required/environment Kitchen with oven

Precautions Be careful when operating hot oven

Sequence/Directions (Details of how a to move through the activity from start to finish)

1. Wash hands with warm water and soap

2. Purchase required ingredients at grocery store (premade pizza dough, pizza sauce, grated cheese, desired toppings)

3. Preheat oven to 450 degrees

4. Place grated cheese and pizza sauce into separate kitchen bowls 1 5. Take out dough from container, and use roller to roll out dough into a circle on a pizza pan. Roll out dough to desired thickness.

6. Use a spoon to spread out pizza sauce on top of the dough. Use desired amount of sauce (1 cup, ½ cup). Do not spread the sauce all the way to the edge of the pizza, leave 1 in of dough (crust) sauce free.

7. Use your hands to spread out desired amount of cheese on top of pizza sauce

8. Using your oven glove, place pan/pizza inside oven for 30-40 minutes.

9. Take pizza out of the oven using oven gloves and cut, as desired, with a pizza cutter or kitchen knife

Activity Analysis (What is required of this activity without any adjustments, accommodations, alterations)

Category Skills Primary body position Standing

Part of the body required Upper body, lower extremities

Movement Carrying in the arms, carrying in the hands, palmar grasp, pincer grasp, manipulating, picking up, putting down objects, reaching, releasing, standing, turning or twisting arms or hands Physical Balance: Dynamic standing, bilateral integration, crossing midline, fine muscle coordination, gross muscle coordination, motor control, muscle strength, Active range of motions: upper extremities, visual-motor integration, Flexibility Cognitive Arousal/alertness, alternation attention, focused attention, calculation, cognitive flexibility, decision making: simple, initiation, insight, judgment, memory: short term, orientation: person, place, time, topographical, organization and planning, problem solving: simple, reading, recognition: number, size, shape/form, sequencing, thought: concrete thought, time management Social Conversation: staring, sustaining, ending, interpersonal interactions, maintaining social space, physical contact, regulating behavior, self-expression, social conduct, social cues Perception Gustatory, tactile, visual, auditory, Olfactory

Communication/language Reaction to spoken language, reception of written language, reception of signs and symbols, producing body language, 2 Self-care Eating, washing/drying one’s self (hands)

Psychological/emotional (possible) Joy (happiness when pizza is finished), Anger (if pizza does not turn out as planned), Frustration (dissatisfied if pizza does not taste right or something goes wrong with the recipe).

SIMPLIFYING AND COMPLICATING THIS ACTIVITY:

Ways to SIMPLIFY demands Ways to make more COMPLEX Have person watch a step-by- Make pizza dough from scratch Cognitively step video so that they do not (more ingredients/steps have to read directions, have amount of sauce already measured out.

Make in small kitchen space (do Make in large kitchen space Physically not have to move or walk far) (more walking, bending and reaching). Purchase un-grated cheese and have person grate cheese.

Make independently Make with large group of Socially people (decide who is going to do what, could decide toppings together, other ingredients together)

Other Comments: You can modify the recipe/ingredients as necessary. For example, you can make the dough from scratch, instead of buying premade dough. You can also alter amount/type of toppings as desired.