Ms. Rice helps students sitting at a table stir ingredients in their bowls.

Erwin High School wrapped up Career and Technical Education Month with a sweet lesson for its youngest learners. 

Ms. Rice holds up her mixing bowl to show batter dripping off the mixerFamily and Consumer Sciences teacher Kady Rice, joined by her student Lily, invited students from the Erwin Learning Lab into the kitchen to make pancakes topped with fresh strawberries and homemade whipped cream. The students had a science lesson, including how to turn a liquid into a solid, and picked up some new vocabulary words, such as “whisk.”

Students sit at a table and stir ingreidents in their bowlsThe lesson ended with a chance to eat their culinary creations.