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Handout
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Inventor of the Week: Lloyd Augustus Hall

For Students 9th - 10th
Inventor Lloyd Augustus Hall is featured in this brief biography who made several contributions to the food and drug industry such as his patented method for curing meats so they would keep better.
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Professional Doc
New Zealand Ministry of Education

New Zealand Government: Te Kete Ipurangi: Is Food a Technological Outcome?

For Teachers K - 1st
In response to a misunderstanding about whether food can be a technological outcome, students were given an exploratory lesson in food technology. They discussed biscuits as technological products and the testing and trialing involved in...
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Activity
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Ruff Ruffman Show: Chocolate Mug Cake

For Students K - 1st
Explore kitchen chemistry and make a chocolate mug cake in less than 5 minutes.
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Interactive
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Ruff Ruffman Show: Ruff's Cookie Creator

For Students K - 1st
Use science inquiry to explore and test different ingredients to help Ruff make, decorate, and serve cookies to his family in this kitchen science game.
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Ruff Ruffman Show: Teacher's Guide: Kitchen Chemistry

For Teachers K - 1st
Learn about kitchen chemistry alongside Ruff Ruffman. Learners can use the videos, games, and activities from The Ruff Ruffman Show to discover how by investigating solids and liquids and exploring heating and cooling, science can help...
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Handout
Thinkport Education

Thinkport: Designing a Healthier, Happier Meal: Stem Career: Cell Biologist

For Students 9th - 10th
LEarn how cell biologists study the structure and function of cells, including the interactions that happen inside cells.
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Handout
Thinkport Education

Thinkport: Designing a Healthier, Happier Meal: Stem Career: Food Chemist

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about chemists who specialize in food chemistry- the study of chemical processes and interactions in our foods.
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Website
Exploratorium

Exploratorium: The Science of Eggs

For Students 3rd - 8th
Hard cooked or raw, can you tell? This site has egg recipes and activities, scientific processes of eggs, and more from Exploratorium.com.
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Website
Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Science of Sugar

For Students 3rd - 8th
What is a sucrose molecule? What does the Candy-o-matic do? Fun candy science recipes and activities are listed at this site.
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Website
Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Science of Cooking: Bread Science and Facts

For Students 3rd - 8th
Find out the science behind making bread. This site from Exploratorium turns your kitchen into a lab and you can do much more than bake bread. Do experiments with yeast, and find out what is so exciting about gluten.
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Article
Other

Top Ten Reasons to Avoid Processed Foods

For Students 9th - 10th
Before you reach for that Twinkie, here's food for thought: a list of reasons to avoid processed foods.
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Article
BBC

Bbc Newsround: Eating Horsemeat "May Improve Life for Horses"

For Students 2nd - 5th
Article reports on the debate in the UK around the consumption of horsemeat.
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Handout
Royal Society of Chemistry

Royal Society of Chemistry: Kitchen Chemistry: Use of Salt in Cooking (1) [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Instructions for experiments to see whether cooking green beans in salted water improves their taste, texture, or color.
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Activity
Bill Nye

Bill Nye: Merry Poppings

For Students 1st - 5th
Try this at-home science experiment to learn about what makes popcorn pop.
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Graphic
Curated OER

Exploratorium: The Science of Pickles

For Students 3rd - 8th
What is pickling? What role does fermentation play in food? What is salt brine? Understand this and more at the Exploratorium.
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Graphic
Curated OER

Exploratorium: The Science of Pickles

For Students 3rd - 8th
What is pickling? What role does fermentation play in food? What is salt brine? Understand this and more at the Exploratorium.
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Graphic
Curated OER

Egg Cross Section

For Students 3rd - 8th
Hard cooked or raw, can you tell? This site has egg recipes and activities, scientific processes of eggs, and more from Exploratorium.com.
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Graphic
Curated OER

Whisk

For Students 3rd - 8th
Hard cooked or raw, can you tell? This site has egg recipes and activities, scientific processes of eggs, and more from Exploratorium.com.
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Graphic
Curated OER

Exploratorium.com: The Science of Eggs

For Students 3rd - 8th
Hard cooked or raw, can you tell? This site has egg recipes and activities, scientific processes of eggs, and more from Exploratorium.com.
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Graphic
Curated OER

3 Eggs

For Students 3rd - 8th
Hard cooked or raw, can you tell? This site has egg recipes and activities, scientific processes of eggs, and more from Exploratorium.com.
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Graphic
Curated OER

Slice O Scope

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site has recipes and activities regarding bread, flour, gluten and more.
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Graphic
Curated OER

Exploratorium: Bread Science 101

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site has recipes and activities regarding bread, flour, gluten and more.
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Graphic
Curated OER

Exploratorium: Bread Science 101

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site has recipes and activities regarding bread, flour, gluten and more.