Curated OER
Crossword Puzzle - Breakfast Foods
In this crossword puzzle worksheet, students use the clues to fill in the crossword with the correct words about breakfast foods. Students complete 9 clues.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: How Much Baking Powder Do Quick Breads Need?
If you like to bake, this could be a good project for you. There is a purpose for each of the ingredients in your recipes, but not everyone is always aware of what that purpose may be. Though this lab takes multiple days, you will...
Read Works
Read Works: Bread Baking Now and Then
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about bread and how it was made differently throughout history and among different cultures. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Plants and Food: Bread for Everyone
Learn about the different kinds of breads people eat around the world. Includes audio narration.
Other
The Happy Scientist: Bread Bubbles
This experiment is about bread. If you have used my website for long, you know that I like experiments with food, especially when it is tasty food. We regularly bake bread, and there are few smells that are better than the smell of...
Andre Dollinger
Reshafim: Bread, the Staff of Life
A look at the preparation of flour and the baking of bread in ancient Egyptian kitchens. Bread, the staff of life, was vital to all classes of Egyptians.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Bread Science
From Chinese baozi to Armenian lavash, bread comes in thousands of forms. Find out, on the most basic level, what chemistry ties them all together.
American Chemical Society
American Chemical Society: Development of Baking Powder
The invention of baking powder had a huge impact on bakers' ability to produce and distribute bread to large numbers of people. The history of this lowly ingredient is presented, along with a chemistry lesson plan for secondary students.
Curated OER
Eternal Egypt: Statuette of a Man Baking Bread
The statuette shows a man wearing a short linen kilt seated before an oven. He is kneading dough and baking bread.
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.
Pennsylvania State University
Penn State: Medieval Technology & American History: Daily Bread [Pdf]
Outline, compiled by a university research assistant, considers breads and bread making in medieval European society.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Concepts, Classification and States of Matter
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Freshly baked bread and cherry pie are two delicious parts of any meal. What happens to the ingredients that go into the bread and the pie as they are heated in the...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Yeast Reproduction in Sugar Substitutes
There's nothing quite like the smell of fresh-baked bread to make your mouth water. As any baker can tell you, you can't bake bread without yeast. This project makes clever use of bread dough to measure yeast reproduction three different...
Curated OER
Eternal Egypt: Low Relief of Baking and Brewing
This low-relief shows twelve men making beer. They are shown first fermenting bread and then squeezing the wet mash through sieves to collect the liquid in jars.
Curated OER
Eternal Egypt: Model of Household Activities
This model depicts, in miniature, 12 people carrying out various household activities such as grinding grain, butchering a calf, and baking bread.
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: The Little Red Hen [Pdf]
"The Little Red Hen" is a one page fable about the other animals not helping the little red hen plant wheat, harvest it, or bake the bread, so they did not get to eat it either. It is followed by constructed-response questions which...
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.
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Pistor
A baker, from pinsere, to pound, since corn was pounded in mortars before the invention of mills. At Rome bread was originally made at home by the women of the house; and there were no persons at Rome who made baking a trade, or any...