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Math Word Problems: Converting Recipe Amounts
In this math worksheet, students read recipes for making chocolate buns and pizza snacks. Students convert the basic recipe amounts to serve different numbers of people. Note: This if from the UK and all recipe measurements are in metric.
Food a Fact of Life
Brilliant Baking
Young chefs are introduced to the use of the oven with an activity that asks them or whip up a batch of fruity flapjacks or tropical granola bars. Yum!
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Foods ll Introductory Review
Ninth graders identify and explain the appropriate use and care of basic kitchen equipment. They assess their skill level to determine to what extent to cover the basics in kitchen equipment, microwave cooking, abbreviations,...
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Abbreviations, Substitutions, Equivalents Review Lab
High schoolers work together to prepare a cookie recipe. In groups, they measure ingredients and review abbreviations and substitutions when it comes to different systems of measurement. To end the lesson, they demonstrate the use of...
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Medieval Recipe Translations
Young scholars analyze recipes from several medieval English manuscripts and collections. They view them in their original language accompanied with a literal translation and followed by a modern interpretation of the recipe and its...
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Bake, Boil, or Fry
Learners write a journal entry about where there food comes from. In this Civil War lesson, students discuss journals, the crops grown within the U.S., the import/export process and what food preparation must have been like on a...
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Fort Detail
Students explore U.S. history by participating in a scavenger hunt. For this Civil War lesson, students read assigned text discussing the many battles of the Civil War and the importance of a fort to the fighting parties. Students...
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Let's Cook
Learners practice converting measurements into metrics. In groups, they translate a recipe from English into German and convert all measurements into metrics for the recipe. They examine the difference between United States and metric...
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Native American Lesson Plan: Someone's in the Kitchen
Learners use vocabulary necessary to complete cooking activities and tell others about the food. They discuss similarities and differences between Native American and other nationalities' foods made in their families.
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Little Red Hen (Makes a Pizza) Lesson Plan
Students create a pizza recipe based on the recipe used in The Little Red Hen (Makes a Pizza) by Philemon Sturges. In this early childhood lesson plan, students read The Little Red Hen (Makes a Pizza) and identify the ingredients needed...
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Chemical or Physical?
Fourth graders make observations of the reactions that happens between calcium carbonate and various liquids. During the experiment the students determine if there is a chemical change, a physical reaction, or no reaction when they mix...
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Gingerbread Baby
Learners explore gingerbread stories. In this poetry lesson, students read the folk tale "The Gingerbread Man" as well as Gingerbread Baby by Jan Brett and identify rhyming words. Learners also make art projects, dramatize the stories,...
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Fractions: Mud Pie Math
Second graders identify and name fractional parts through the use of mud pie manipulatives. In this fractional manipulatives lesson, 2nd graders identify and label halves, thirds, fourths, sixths, eighths, and tenths and order them...
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Kitchen Introduction Unit Test
Students complete a test demonstrating their knowledge of kitchen safety, sanitation, equipment, measuring, cooking terms, abbreviations, substitutions, equivalents, reading and parts of a recipe, and the microwave oven.
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Cook-A-Doodle Doo! Lesson Plan
Pupils enjoy the excitement in the short story, Cook-A-Doodle-Doo! In this Cook-A-Doodle Doo! lesson plan, students work to tell the difference between fact and fiction, learn vocabulary, and compare and contrast different stories.
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Studying the Food Pyramid
Students have a cooking day. In this healthy eating lesson, students use pictures from a magazine to illustrate the food groups. Students record the foods they eat and then see if they are eating enough from each food group. Students...
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Volcano Under the City
Students examine the different flow rates of liquids and how lava's viscosity influences flow. In this liquids lesson students complete several handouts and a lab activity.
Michigan Sea Grant
Water Quality
Learners observe water samples and measure the samples' water quality. Learners develop their own criteria for measuring water quality and test for temperature, acidity, oxygen levels, turbidity, conductance, sediment and hardness.
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As a Matter of Fact
Students rotate through various hands-on experiment stations to explore the concept and properties of different types of matter. They compare some properties of solids, liquids and gases and describe how matter changes from one state to...
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Health & Safety
Pupils are introduced to the standards for health in the child care system. After watching a PowerPoint presentation, they plan healthy snacks for children. To end the lesson plan, they review the proper safety measures to have in...
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Soybean Science
Fourth graders explore food science by participating in a cooking activity. In this soybean oil lesson, 4th graders listen as the teacher gives them a background on soybeans and their use by humans today. Students grind soybeans and...
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Growing Rock Candy
Students observe the growth of rock candy. In this crystal growth lesson, students make rock candy and measure the crystal growth over five days.
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Math Investigations
Students demonstrate how math is used in everyday life. In this math investigation lesson, students develop a class-list of ways they use math everyday. Students define math vocabulary words, such as "counting," "daily life," and "measure."
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Recipe Formats - Level II
Students prepare chocolate chip cookies (or another recipe of choice) in the lab to give them practice in measuring, reading a recipe, using equipment, work habits, etc.