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A&E Television

History.com: History This Week: The Mother of Level Measurements

For Students 9th - 10th
September 24, 1902. A new cooking school is set to open at Boston's 30 Huntington Avenue. The rooms will soon be filled with trainee cooks, who will watch in awe as the school's namesake and principal, Fannie Farmer, lectures on...
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Curated OER

Kids Health: Staying Healthy

For Students 3rd - 5th
Find yummy recipes for food to make yourself! There are also articles about the reasons for vitamins and minerals, how to eat when you're playing sports, and a number of other important topics.
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China Vista: Recipe Corner

For Students 9th - 10th
An interesting bilingual English-Chinese website with introductions to the histories of various cuisines in China, recipes from those regions, and lessons on basic Chinese cooking skills.
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Royal Society of Chemistry

Royal Soc. Of Chemistry: Kitchen Chemistry: Chemical Changes During Cooking [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Article, with embedded questions, describes the chemical changes that take place when meat is cooked when sugar is heated, and when fruits brown.
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Cooking With Caro: Caribbean Cooking at It's Best

For Students 9th - 10th
5 basic Dominican Republic recipes listed at the bottom of the page with a brief explanation before. Basic and easy to use.
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PBS

Jacques Pepin's World of Cooking

For Students 9th - 10th
At this famous French chef Jacques Pepin's resource, you can get tips and recipes.
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Royal Society of Chemistry

Royal Society of Chemistry: Kitchen Chemistry: Video Clips

For Students 9th - 10th
Sixteen program clips of various kitchen chemistry topics. See chefs at work carrying out edible chemistry experiments.
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Shaking for Butter

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this food science fair project, the student will determine the best conditions for making butter.
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National Library of France

National Library of France: Medieval Gastronomy in Images

For Students 9th - 10th
An interesting look at medieval art that depicts a facet of ordinary life: eating. Organized into three sections on food, cooking, and meals, this online exhibit tells us much about the medieval diet, the value of certain foods, the...
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Google Cultural Institute

Google Cultural Institute: Eat, Drink, and Be Merry

For Students 9th - 10th
Manuscript artworks accompanied by descriptions that were part of a museum art exhibit on Medieval and Renaissance food. The exhibit looked at how food was portrayed in art from those times.
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Curated OER

Kids Health: Children's Activities: Healthy Eating

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
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,...
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Mag Nificent Breakfast Cereal

For Students 3rd - 5th
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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Other

On Track Diabetes: Diabetic Lifestyle Online Magazine

For Students 9th - 10th
Know someone with Diabeties or someone who is researching it? A great magazine with lots of information on diabetic health, food, diet.
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Candy Chromatography: What Makes Those Colors?

For Students 6th - 8th
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...
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Hey, There's Corn in My Candy!

For Students 3rd - 5th
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

For Students 3rd - 8th
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.
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Lesson Tutor

Lesson Tutor: History: Go Eat Your Homework!

For Students 1st - 9th
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.
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: The Economics of Income: Which 'Wood' You Choose?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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?...
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Curated OER

Coconut Milk Is an Essential Cooking Ingredient in Indonesian Cuisine

For Students 9th - 10th
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!
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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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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Which Orange Juice Has the Most Vitamin C?

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

Colonial Williamsburg: Sampling 18th Century Fare

For Students 9th - 10th
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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Other

Marmiton (French)

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource offers recipes and other information about French cooking.
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New Netherland Institute: New Amsterdam Kitchen: Domestic Life in New Netherland

For Students 9th - 10th
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.

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