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Read Works

Read Works: Mix the Old With the New

For Teachers 7th
[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.
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Michigan State University

Michigan State University: Digital Center: Feeding America

For Students 9th - 10th
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,...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Healthy Eating: Healthy Eating: Collection

For Students 3rd - 7th
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...
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: When Science Is Sweet: Growing Rock Candy Crystals

For Students 3rd - 5th
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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Other

Huayu World: Global Chinese Language and Culture Center

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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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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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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Other

Teaching heart.net: Down on the Teaching Farm

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Come and check out this comprehensive teaching resource for farms. Students and teachers will benefit from the activities and book found within this site.
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CNN

Cnn: In Depth Inspection at Beef Plant

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Maryland Science Center

Maryland Science Center: Caramel Chemistry [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 5th
This activity demonstrates the Maillard Reaction, which explains how browning and flavor develop when something is cooked.
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Project Ideas: How Much Sugar Is Really in That Soda?

For Students 9th - 10th
In this science fair project, use a precision hydrometer to measure the amount of sugar in soda. The Science Buddies project ideas are set up consistently beginning with an abstract, objective, and introduction, followed by a section on...
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Project Ideas: Simple Device to Measure the Strength of Tea

For Students 9th - 10th
In this science fair project, measure the strength of tea, using plastic cups, a photoresistor, and a multimeter. The Science Buddies project ideas are set up consistently beginning with an abstract, objective, and introduction, followed...
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Project Ideas: Bitter to Sweet: Sugar Changes in Ripening Fruit

For Students 9th - 10th
In this science fair project, use a refractometer to measure changes in sugar content in ripening fruit. The Science Buddies project ideas are set up consistently beginning with an abstract, objective, and introduction, followed by a...
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CNN

Cnn: Usda:take Burger's Temperature to Prevent e.coli

For Students 9th - 10th
A short news story about the need to test the temperature while cooking meats.
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Curated OER

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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Other

The History of the Cattle Trail Chuck Wagon

For Students 3rd - 5th
Ever wonder what it was like to be a cowboy on the range? What did they eat? Who cooked it? This site provides a nicely done background on cowboy cooking, chuck wagon etiquette, and links to recipes.
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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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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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Other

Canton Public Library: World Cuisine

For Students 9th - 10th
Click links to world cuisines and browse through rice recipes from around the world, Arabic cuisine, Caribbean foods, Dutch food, Swedish recipes, Thai food, and more.
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Other

Science4 Us: Changes in Matter

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Through an instructional video, games, and activities, students explore three types of change matter makes: physical change, in which only the shape of the matter changes; physical phase change in which matter changes to a different form...
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Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

Colonial Willaimsburg: Selected Recipes

For Students 9th - 10th
Original recipes from colonial times in Williamsburg. You can try them yourself!
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Museum of Science

Museum of Science and Industry: Online Science: Activities: Solar Oven

For Students 3rd - 8th
Step-by-step instructions, with photos, of how to construct a solar oven using everyday materials.
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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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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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