Skip to content

Sort hot and sharp kitchen items

K-2, 3-5Percent accuracyTemplateReview and individualize before use. How templates are made
When to use this goal

For young students who help in a classroom kitchen or reach for things on the counter at home. Present levels in sorting pictures or objects by a rule decide fit. This builds the knowledge for later kitchen routines; it does not replace supervision.

Baseline
Use 10 items, about half unsafe. Score each sort. Because this is safety knowledge, the target is every item correct, and the student's family should hear which items were missed.
Tips
Use photos of the student's own kitchen if the family can share them. Teach the ask-first rule as the action. Follow with real kitchen routines that include oven mitts and knife safety for older students.
Limits
Sorting pictures does not show safe behavior near a real stove. Supervision in kitchens continues regardless.

Original IEP Atlas template based on general measurement principles; not copied from any goal bank. ID fn-cs-026.

Sign in to add this goal to a student.

Student

How the goal refers to the student

Skill

What the student will do

Something an adult can see, count or time.

Condition

When or under what conditions

Support

Support allowed

Criterion

Percent of attempted items answered correctly.

Sample numbers. Replace them with the student's data.

Criterion wording

Data collection

Each planned or naturally occurring opportunity is recorded as correct/independent, prompted, or not demonstrated.

How often data are collected
Mastery rule

How many measurements must meet the criterion.

Timeframe

Timeframe

Goal

By the annual IEP review date, given 10 photos of kitchen items and scenes (a hot pan, a knife, a stove burner, a spoon, a cold cup), the student will sort each item as safe to touch or ask an adult first independently with 100% accuracy on kitchen items sorted, across 3 consecutive weekly probes, as measured by opportunity-by-opportunity data collected weekly.

Baseline: 50% accuracy.

  • Condition
  • Observable behavior
  • Criterion
  • Measurement method

ObjectivesCopy by fieldData sheet

Measurability check11 of 11 met
  • Met: Observable behavior. Stated as an action.

  • Met: Condition. Stated.

  • Met: Unit fits the behavior. Percent accuracy fits this behavior.

  • Met: Explicit criterion. Number and unit stated.

  • Met: Mastery rule and schedule. Both stated.

  • Met: Method produces the metric. Opportunity (trial) recording gives percent accuracy data.

  • Met: Review timeframe. Stated.

  • Met: Baseline and target compatible. Same unit, change in the right direction.

  • Met: Aligned with area of need. Still about Community & Safety Skills.

  • Met: Level of support. Defined.

  • Met: Blanks filled in. Nothing left to fill in.

Checks structure and wording only. Whether the goal fits the student is the team's call.

Short-term objectives (optional)

When are objectives required?

Required for students on alternate assessments (34 CFR §300.320(a)(2)(ii)); some states require them for everyone.

Build objectives by

Paste into your IEP system

Most district systems have a separate box for each part of a goal. Copy them one at a time, or all at once as labeled text.

Area of need
Functional & Independence Skills - Community & Safety Skills
Baseline
50% accuracy.
Annual goal363 characters
By the annual IEP review date, given 10 photos of kitchen items and scenes (a hot pan, a knife, a stove burner, a spoon, a cold cup), the student will sort each item as safe to touch or ask an adult first independently with 100% accuracy on kitchen items sorted, across 3 consecutive weekly probes, as measured by opportunity-by-opportunity data collected weekly.
Timeframe
By the annual IEP review date
Condition
Given 10 photos of kitchen items and scenes (a hot pan, a knife, a stove burner, a spoon, a cold cup)
Behavior
The student will sort each item as safe to touch or ask an adult first independently
Criteria
With 100% accuracy on kitchen items sorted, across 3 consecutive weekly probes
Evaluation method
Opportunity-by-opportunity data
Schedule
Weekly

Copied as plain text, with straight quotes and plain dashes.

Matching data sheet

Accuracy tracker. Records number correct and number attempted.

The CSV opens in Excel or Google Sheets, with formulas. Sheets print blank; no student data is stored.