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Curated OER

Activity Plan Mixed Ages: Friendship Soup

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students learn creative cooking. For this early childhood lesson plan, students children work together to plan, buy, and prepare a soup for their lunchtime meal.
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Curated OER

Grow Your Own Grub

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students create a recipe book.  In this produce instructional activity, students watch a selection of the harvest animations from the BBC Dig In website, taste some of the vegetable and herbs they've been growing and discuss creating a...
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Food a Fact of Life

Deli Salads

For Teachers 6th - 12th
The challenge in this foods lesson is staying organized in the kitchen while preparing a vegetable couscous salad or a layered pasta salad. Young cooks work in teams to prepare these nutritious meals.
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Worksheet
Choose My Plate

MyPlate Crossword Puzzle

For Students 2nd - 4th
Reinforce food group facts with a crossword puzzle that highlights healthy nutrition and cooking habits as presented by the MyPlate eating recommendations. 
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Worksheet
Choose My Plate

MyPlate Word Search

For Students 2nd - 4th
Encourage healthy eating, cooking, and goal setting with a word search that showcases a variety of fruits and vegetables, and provides a four-step plan to eat more of them. 
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Cooking Matters

Make Your Plate a Rainbow

For Students K - 8th
Different colored foods provide various benefits to different parts of the body. For example, purple fruits and vegetables can boost your memory. The worksheet incorporates the concept of healthy eating into drawing, matching, and...
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Choose My Plate

MyPlate Word Blanks

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
Create a silly cooking themed story using nouns, adjectives, verbs, and more! Pupils fill in the blanks using their knowledge of different types of fruit, vegetables, grains, protein, and dairy, then read the story aloud to hear a whacky...
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August House

When Turtle Grew Feathers

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Friendship is a valuable part of growing up. Learn about the importance of friendship with a variety of activities based on When Turtle Grew Feathers by Tim Tingle. Kids practice making musical instruments, discussing plot points,...
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Curated OER

Fruits and Vegetables: A Nutritionally Rich Base

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine proper selection, preparation and storage techniques for a variety of fruits and vegetables. In groups, they prepare various types of salads.
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Education Outside

Brassica Fried Rice

For Teachers 4th
Here's a delicious way to engage fourth graders into working with fractions. Kids chop brassica or cruciferous vegetables, measure the required ingredients, and add them to cooked rice to produce a delicious treat.
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Curated OER

What are the ways of cooking rice?

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students discover how to cook rice. In this rice lesson, students discuss the different types of rice and their differences in flavor. They write each of the steps to cook rice.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Cooking on the Lewis and Clark Expedition

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students explain the challenge to find and cook during the Lewis and Clark Expedition. They practice frying techniques. They recognize the appearance and consistency of cooked fish.
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Food a Fact of Life

Getting to Grips

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Fruit fusion or dippy divers, anyone? Here's a delicious way to introduce young cooks to aspects of safe food handling and the use of food handling tools. Groups create fruits and/or vegetable salads to share with the class.
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Baylor College

What's That Food?

For Teachers K - 5th Standards
Get things cooking with the first lesson plan in this series on the science of food. Working in small groups, young scientists make and record observations about different mystery foods. These descriptions are then shared with the class...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

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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Curated OER

To Market

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Pupils examine the process of cooking a meal. In this cooking background lesson, students explore cooking utensils, recipes, songs, and literature. They go through stations that encourage dramatic play and hands-on exploration of cooking...
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Curated OER

Vegetables

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders evaluate what happens when vegetables are cooking in different solutions. They observe the effect of color change on cooking vegetables.
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Curated OER

The Ogre Bully Lesson

For Teachers K
Students investigate bullies, agriculture and cooking by completing worksheets about a book they read.  In this story analysis lesson, students read the story The Ogre Bully, and discuss bullying as well as farming with their classmates....
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

What's Cooking - A Colonial Recipe

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders explore Colonial and modern techniques, vocabulary, and ingredients of cooking and recipes. They gain understanding of the challenges of cooking in colonial times and modern adaptations.
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Curated OER

Social Studies: Cooking Methods - Past and Present

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders identify geographic regions (Texas' Edwards Plateau) and sequence steps in the hot rock cooking process. They compare and contrast prehistoric and contemporary cooking methods. Students conduct online research and record...
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Curated OER

Microwave Cooking

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students learn the basic principles of microwave cooking and prepare a dessert in the microwave using correct procedures.
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American Chemical Society

Defining Dissolving

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Physical science investigators mix sugar and food coloring into different cups of water and cooking oil to compare how the solid and liquid behave in each. As the introduction to this unit on dissolving, it is relevant.
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Curated OER

Creating Biodiesel and Mitigating Waste

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Biotechnology pros produce their own biofuel using waste oil and fresh vegetable oil. They test the quality of their product using titration techniques and pH analysis. They write their observations and report their findings. Be aware...
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Food a Fact of Life

Soup-er!

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Is there anything better than hot soup on a cold day? Kids prepare either vegetable chowder or minestrone soup in an activity that features the use of the stove top.