This is not as simple as cooking instant noodles and steaming white rice. According to the latest document issued by the Ministry of Education, after the end of nine-year compulsory education, students must learn cooking methods such as steaming, boiling, frying and stewing, cook three or four dishes, design three meals a day, master nutrition, and understand scientific diet and China's food culture ... These standards may not even reach housewives.
Related news sparked heated discussion on social platforms in China. "The Ministry of Education requires primary and secondary school students to learn how to cook from September" has topped the hot search list in Weibo, and up to now, the topic has been read 780 million times.
Supporting and welcoming parents are happy that their children can master more life skills; Swearing parents are worried about being forced to participate and increasing their burden, and all kinds of trembling and worrying remarks follow.
Labor class as an independent course
According to the news from official website, Observer.com and Xinhuanet of the Ministry of Education, in the latest compulsory education curriculum scheme issued by the Ministry of Education, labor is independent from the original comprehensive practical activity curriculum and becomes an independent curriculum for primary and secondary schools. The official "Compulsory Education Labor Curriculum Standards (2022 Edition)" (referred to as "Standards") introduces the curriculum content in detail. The new curriculum will be implemented in the fall semester this year, that is, in September.
According to the "standard", labor class is to let students practice, sweat, accept exercise and temper their will, and cultivate their correct labor values and good labor quality. The average weekly course is not less than one class hour, which is used for activity planning, skill guidance and practice.
In terms of curriculum structure, it consists of 10 task groups, which are distributed in three categories: daily life labor, productive labor and service labor.
Among them, "daily life labor", sorting and storage, cooking and nutrition, and "productive labor", agricultural production labor and traditional craft production run through the nine-year compulsory education stage. Let's take a look at the specific requirements of the cooking and nutrition research group that parents are discussing.
Nine years of cooking training.
According to the requirements of the course content, students in grades one to two should participate in simple home cooking, such as rough processing of ingredients such as selecting vegetables and washing vegetables; Choose the right tools to peel the fruit according to the needs, and brew the drink with the right utensils; Understand the nutritional value and scientific eating methods of vegetables, fruits, drinks and other foods.
Students in grades three to four should be able to cut and match ingredients with simple cookers, make cold dishes and platters according to the general process, and learn to process ingredients by steaming and boiling; Use oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar and other seasonings to make cold cucumber; Peel and core several kinds of fruits to make a fruit platter; Heating steamed bread, steamed bread and other pasta; Boiled eggs, jiaozi, etc.
Students in grades five to six should use simple cooking methods such as frying, frying and stewing to make two or three home-cooked dishes, such as scrambled eggs with tomatoes, fried eggs and stewed bone soup. Participate in the whole process from vegetable selection and washing to cooking and plate loading; Design a nutritional recipe for lunch or dinner according to family needs, and understand the relationship between different cooking methods and food nutrition.