Curated OER
Kids Health: Children's Activities: Healthy Eating
You can create opportunities for learning about healthy food in many ways besides cooking and eating: you can use games, crafts, songs and dance. This site provides coloring sheets, flashcards, curriculum materials, nutritional games,...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Mag Nificent Breakfast Cereal
You will devise a way of testing foods for supplemental iron additives in this experiment provided by Science Buddies. Then you will use your design to test different breakfast cereals to see how much iron they contain. The goal is to...
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On Track Diabetes: Diabetic Lifestyle Online Magazine
Know someone with Diabeties or someone who is researching it? A great magazine with lots of information on diabetic health, food, diet.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Candy Chromatography: What Makes Those Colors?
One of the characteristics that makes M&Ms so popular is dye that colors the hard shell, and of course the chocolate. But, many are unaware of what dyes are used to make those colors. This day long lab uses paper chromatography to...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Hey, There's Corn in My Candy!
In candy making, corn syrup is known as an "interfering agent." You can find out just what this agent does by making two batches of lollipops, one with corn syrup and one without and examining the differences between the two. Once you...
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Cooking With Kids: Breakfast Baked in a Bar
Here is a simple recipe for kids to try with their parents' help. Learn to make breakfast bars using crescent rolls, apples, walnuts, caramels and common ingredients that are probably already in your kitchen.
Lesson Tutor
Lesson Tutor: History: Go Eat Your Homework!
Learn a little about a few major cities in the United States while munching on the food that the city is known for. For example, Boston's history goes better while eating Boston Baked Beans and Brown Bread. Recipes are included.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: The Economics of Income: Which 'Wood' You Choose?
A key turning point in a nation's economic development is when it starts to use its resources for long term versus short term purposes. A natural resource example is trees: should people use wood for cooking food or building homes?...
Curated OER
Coconut Milk Is an Essential Cooking Ingredient in Indonesian Cuisine
A comprehensive report on the food of Indonesia. This site contains a detailed description of food history, food for religious and holiday celebrations, mealtime customs as well as many recipes!
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Science of Cooking: Bread Science and Facts
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.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Which Orange Juice Has the Most Vitamin C?
In this project you'll learn how to measure the amount of vitamin C in a solution using an iodine titration method. You will hypothesize which juice will contain the most vitamin C, and then compare the amount of vitamin C in three...
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Colonial Williamsburg: Sampling 18th Century Fare
This article from the Colonial Williamsburg Museum takes a look at Colonial Williamsburg's Historic Food Program project. Content includes a focus on how food was prepared, what tools were used, etc.
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New Netherland Institute: New Amsterdam Kitchen: Domestic Life in New Netherland
Provides information about the foods eaten by settlers in New Amsterdam and how they prepared it. Describes the different utensils and dishes that were used for cooking and for food consumption.
Read Works
Read Works: Mix the Old With the New
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about how cooking causes changes in matter. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Michigan State University
Michigan State University: Digital Center: Feeding America
Digital database of American cookbooks from the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries provides insights into the social history of Americans across three centuries through a consideration of women's labor in the household,...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Healthy Eating: Healthy Eating: Collection
Support healthy eating by using these resources in the classroom. The Healthy Lunchtime Challenge was a nationwide recipe contest for kids ages 8-12 that promotes cooking and healthy eating. Winners attended a "State Dinner" at the White...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: When Science Is Sweet: Growing Rock Candy Crystals
Though rock candy seems to be a simple enough treat, it is also pretty interesting to make. Crystallized sugar that can be grown from a sugar-water solution is just how rock candy is made. In this experiment, you will learn to make your...
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Huayu World: Global Chinese Language and Culture Center
Good resource for exploring Chinese culture and language. Learn about Taiwanese lantern riddles, Chinese folklore, clothing, poetry and fables, papercutting, Chinese New Year, and Chinese festival and every-day cooking. Multimedia makes...
Curated OER
Exploratorium: The Science of Pickles
What is pickling? What role does fermentation play in food? What is salt brine? Understand this and more at the Exploratorium.
Curated OER
Exploratorium: The Science of Pickles
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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Teaching heart.net: Down on the Teaching Farm
Come and check out this comprehensive teaching resource for farms. Students and teachers will benefit from the activities and book found within this site.
CNN
Cnn: In Depth Inspection at Beef Plant
A CNN news story detailing a USDA inspection of a beef plant - hoping to find the source a large e.coli scare. The search for the source and details about the recall of large quantities of tainted meat are detailed.
Maryland Science Center
Maryland Science Center: Caramel Chemistry [Pdf]
This activity demonstrates the Maillard Reaction, which explains how browning and flavor develop when something is cooked.
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