Online Course
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: Courses: Kitchen Chemistry

For Teachers 9th - 10th
College-level online course focusing on kitchen chemistry. Course explores the application of chemistry in recipes and cooking. Course features include links to readings, lecture notes, and a wealth of related links.
Online Course
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: Advanced Kitchen Chemistry

For Students 9th - 10th
College-level advanced course on kitchen chemistry. Course topics highlight the scientific exploration of all types of food. Features online include downloadable assignments and readings, and a number of food chemistry-related links.
Handout
Thinkport Education

Thinkport: Designing a Healthier, Happier Meal: Stem Career: Food Chemist

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about chemists who specialize in food chemistry- the study of chemical processes and interactions in our foods.
Activity
Royal Society of Chemistry

Royal Society of Chemistry: Experimentation Hub: Measuring Vitamin C in Food

For Students 9th - 10th
A chance to complete an experiment with students around the world! This experiment requires students to test how much vitamin C is in certain foods. Once students receive their results, they post their findings to the page to compare to...
Website
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.
Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: The Chemistry of Cookies

For Students 9th - 10th
Short video explains via basic chemistry principles the science of baking cookies. Stephanie Warren discusses how the dough spreads out, at what temperature we can kill salmonella, and why that intoxicating smell wafting from your oven...
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Ruff Ruffman Show: Teacher's Guide: Kitchen Chemistry

For Teachers K - 1st
Learn about kitchen chemistry alongside Ruff Ruffman. Learners can use the videos, games, and activities from The Ruff Ruffman Show to discover how by investigating solids and liquids and exploring heating and cooling, science can help...
eBook
Chiral Publishing

Chiral Publishing: An Introduction to Chemistry: Important Substances in Food: Audio Book

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the chemical compounds in the foods that you eat everyday. By viewing this audio book, you'll see many structural formulas of these compounds. Also find links to other chapters in the online textbook, animations, and power...
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Holt Modern Chemistry: Energy Content of Foods

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This probeware Lab Energy Content of Foods from the chapter Causes of Change uses a temperature probe to calculate the temperature change of the water to determine how much energy was released when food samples burn.
Article
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.
Activity
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.
Article
Royal Society of Chemistry

Royal Society of Chemistry: Kitchen Chemistry: Why Do Pans Stick? [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Article about Teflon explains why foods stick to pans and poses questions about the chemistry that causes foods to bind to uncoated metals.
Lesson Plan
Royal Society of Chemistry

Royal Society of Chemistry: Kitchen Chemistry: Is All Salt the Same? [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Lesson plan investigation into types of salts used to season foods and in recipes asks learners to consider and whether advertisers' claims about their salt products are truthful.
Handout
Royal Society of Chemistry

Royal Society of Chemistry: Kitchen Chemistry: Use of Salt in Cooking (1) [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Instructions for experiments to see whether cooking green beans in salted water improves their taste, texture, or color.
Handout
Simon Fraser University

Chem1 Virtual Textbook: Enthalpy Diagrams

For Students 9th - 10th
With an overview of topics related to chemical energetics, this site provides a foundation to a study of thermodynamics and its relation to enthalpy. Topics covered include bond enthalpies and bond energies, energy content of fuels,...
Activity
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Ruff Ruffman Show: Chocolate Mug Cake

For Students K - 1st
Explore kitchen chemistry and make a chocolate mug cake in less than 5 minutes.
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating Liquids: Color Changing Milk

For Teachers K - 1st
For this chemistry lab, the students will investigate what happens to the liquids: milk and food coloring, when dish soap is placed on a Q-tip and then put into the solution.

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