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Family Staples: Hide and Seek Pancakes

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students cook rolled pancakes and practice  culinary skills that promote an integration in a variety of foods.  In this cooking lesson plan, students develop the skill of properly measuring and mixing ingredients . Students...
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Activity Plan Mixed Ages: Friendship Soup

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students learn creative cooking. In this early childhood lesson plan, students children work together to plan, buy, and prepare a soup for their lunchtime meal.
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Reading, Writing, And Math in Daily Living

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students, in groups, make chocolate chip cookies following a recipe.
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Cups, Pints, Quarts and Gallons

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this measurement instructional activity, learners circle greater amounts, and estimate and measure items to the nearest unit. Houghton Mifflin text is referenced.
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Applying Fraction Multiplication and Division to Recipes

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students use recipes to practice their fraction multiplication and division skills by calculating the amounts of ingredients needed to make specific recipes. They use these fraction skills to convert small units of cooking measures to...
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Cookie Dough Equivalence

For Teachers 4th
There's nothing better than using a cooking lesson to teach about fractions! In this clever lesson, young chefs must determine the proper amounts of ingredients while using a standard measuring cup. The recipe is embedded in the plan,...
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Teaspoon

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this measuring learning exercise, students study the various teaspoons and color 1 teaspoon yellow and color the 1/2 teaspoon orange.
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How to Cook Rice

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders discover how to cook rice. In this cooking lesson, 4th graders discover how to cook rice correctly. Students read and follow cooking directions and discuss how their rice turned out.
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Double or More

For Teachers K - 6th
Students practice cooking by following recipe instructions.  In this measuring lesson, students read food recipes and collect the materials needed to make one batch, then double the recipe to create twice as much food....
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Substitution Lab

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students in cooking class prepare and cook brownies, making a substitution with one or more of the ingredients as instructed. They compare their results in regard to appearance, flavor and texture. They develop an understanding of...
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Understanding Weight

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
In this weight worksheet, students, with a partner, problem solve the answers to six word problems involving weight and everyday items found around the house and the classroom.
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Ice Cream Lesson Plan for Kindergarten

For Teachers K
Students explore how ice cream is made in a factory and at home. They help make ice cream in the classroom. They measure out the ingredients. Students share the ice cream when it is done.
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Recipe For Disaster

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students play an interactive game online to learn ratios. In this statistics activity, students solve problems in an online game about ratio and relating statistics to the real world. This activity provides hands on as well as teaching...
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Math, Chemistry, and Food

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students explore the effects of chemical reactions when cooking. Using the Internet, they research enzymes and then mix jello. They examine their results and test enzyme activity by adding pineapple to the jello. Finally, they test...
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Cooking: Apple Crescents

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Student apply their measurement skills and follow a recipe to make apple crescents.
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How Does Kansas Measure Up?

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students identify the five main crops of Kansas and crops that are produced in other states. The categorize the types of fruits and seeds of each plant and measure each to compare the length of each.
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Following a Recipe

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students create a cookbook.  In this recipe and writing lesson, students brainstorm the skills necessary to follow a recipe, watch a cooking show and write down a recipe used.  Students use a word processing program to write a...
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Compared to What? Comparing the Density of Different Liquids

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students work in groups to compare the density of different liquids.  In this density lesson, students use cooking oil, liquid detergent and water to measure density.  Students record their results and check the accuracy of...
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We Use Fractions All the time

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this recognizing fraction usage worksheet, learners measure fractions in recipes, match fractions and pictures, and compare pizzas. Students solve 18 problems.
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Working with Fractions

For Students 4th - 8th
In this fractions worksheet, students complete fraction word problems based on recipes that they are given. Students complete 8 problems total.
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Holy Mole

For Teachers K
Students discover Mexican culture by reading and cooking.  In this Central American History lesson, students read the book Holy Mole, and analyze the story by answering questions about plot, characters and even sound effects they...
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A Recipe for Reading: Asian Style Rice and Eggs

For Teachers 6th
Learners read, write about, and cook with rice in this home economics lesson. They reflect on the experience eating rice at home or in other ethnic foods.
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You Are What You Eat (Grades 5-8)

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Young scholars gain an enhanced understanding of the relationship between proper nutrition and good health. Through use of video, hands-on activities and interaction, students measure energy in food, and recognize sources of vitamins and...
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Cookie Recipe: Integrals

For Students 11th - Higher Ed
In this calculus worksheet, students solve integrals over a defined interval in order to gain the measurements for the provided cookie recipe. There are 10 ingredients.