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Food Safety Lab

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars determine the optimal living conditions for yeast and apply these results to microbes in food. In this microbiology lab lesson, students observe the reaction of yeast to elevated temperatures. They relate these results to...
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Home Living/ Daily Living: Cooking Mastery

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Learning to cook, follow directions, and presenting information are skills every body needs to know. Learners complete a recipe-in-a-jar activity to hone these life skills. They follow the directions, choose and use correct measurement...
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Food Safety

For Students 6th - 8th
In this science worksheet, students read the brochure that is concerned with the concept of food safety. The dangers and advantages are discussed.
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MyPlate

For Teachers 7th - 9th
A nice, neat PowerPoint accompanies this lesson plan, explaining each of the MyPlate dietary recommendations. Another PowerPoint gives the class the opportunity to apply the concepts of MyPlate on a worksheet. Recipes are provided for...
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Restaurants and Food

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Sometimes it is appropriate to tip and sometimes it's not. Conduct Internet research to learn the foods and customs associated with various cultures.
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Choose My Plate

MyPlate Maze

For Students 2nd - 4th
Scholars find their way through a maze filled with food items from each food group, including grains, dairy, fruit, vegetables, and protein. They know they have made it out when they see the MyPlate dinner plate. 
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Slow Food: A Different Path

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate the slow food movement through a reading and activity. In this slow food instructional activity, students read about the differences in fast food and slow food and the ties to sustainable agriculture. They nominate a...
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Food Safety

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students recognize that safe food preparation is important to good health.  In this food safety instructional activity, students participate in an activity students separate, clean, chill, and cook food safely. Students use Glo Germ...
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Educate Yourself About Food Borne Illness

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the rules to food safety and how to keep foods from growing bacteria. In this food illness lesson students view a demonstration about bacteria complete a food safety test online.
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Cooking Terms

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Using culinary text books, matching exercises, and an "Old Maid" style card game, classroom chefs learn and distinguish cooking vocabulary. They identify terms and techniques used in a chicken/vegetable stir fry demonstration.
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The Learning Network Fill-In: When the Food Writer Is a Ghost

For Students 9th - 12th
Introduce your class to ghostwriting while practicing comprehension. From The New York Times' The Learning Network, this article covers the topic of ghostwriting for cookbooks. There are blank spaces and a word bank. Learners can use the...
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MyPlate Coloring Sheet

For Students 2nd - 4th
Get creative coloring the MyPlate food group plate! Each food group—grains, dairy, protein, vegetables, and fruit—is labeled within their portioned section of a plate that sits next to a fork. 
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Captain Planet Foundation

Solar Cooking Race

For Teachers 3rd
Study heat transfer with activities that focus on how heat energy works. Using a solar cooker, ice cubes, and heat transfer bracelets, kids experiment and record what they find by keeping ice cubes cold and vegetables hot.
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Meat, Fish and Poultry: Practical Application

For Teachers 9th - 12th
A note-taking outline is given to learners which covers meat composition and quality, types of meat and storage, and cooking meat. By viewing pictures they learn to identify cuts of meat or poultry products. They discuss inspection and...
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How To Make an Apple Pie and See the World

For Teachers 5th - 11th
Students have a class discussion on how the variety of foods we use on a daily basis come from all over the world. They identify foods that they are familiar with that come from other places.
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Taco Grande

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
What do you use to chop an onion or brown the meat? Learners with special needs read through a taco recipe, then use it to complete three different academic development activities. They circle the best utensil for the job, match each...
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Pizza Sticks

For Students 9th - 12th
Kids won't just follow a recipe to increase their cooking ability, they'll use it to locate information in a text. They read the simple recipe, then use information from the recipe to fill in the blanks in a story that shows one person...
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Spooky Spiders-- Multiplication

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this math/cooking worksheet, students learn to multiply while figuring our how many of each ingredient for spooky spiders will be needed for a class cooking project. Students draw pictures and calculate amounts for the pretzels,...
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Biomass Energy

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Junior ecologists relate how food chains and food webs route matter and energy through an ecosystem. They trace feeding levels of a food chain or food web through a pyramid of energy. As a reinforcement activity, learners construct three...
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There Was An Old Lady That Swallowed a Fly

For Teachers K
Students complete activities with the book There Was An Old Lady That Swallowed a Fly.  For this literature lesson, students hear the story and recognize the animals. They create fly soup and discuss healthy foods and junk...
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Cooking In Britain Today

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
In this international foods worksheet, students complete activities and exercises on ten pages that pertain to typical dishes in different countries with an emphasis on British food. This is intended for ESL students.
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Caribbean Food

For Students 5th - 6th
In this social studies learning exercise, students explore the history of foods and cooking in the Caribbean islands. Students read several informative paragraphs, answer 12 questions and make up a recipe from traditional Caribbean...
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Science: Food Quiz

For Students 4th - 6th
In this science:  food quiz worksheet, students answer 20 questions, not interactively, about food, then scroll down to check their answers.
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Stir-Fry Crazy!

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Sizzling stir-fry. Fajitas. Yum. Stove-top cooking is the focus of this activity designed for young cooks.

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