Cooking Terms - Level II

Young scholars 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.

Learners identify appropriate abbreviations, food-measurement terminology, techniques, equivalents, calculate recipe-size adjustments, and demonstrate proper measuring techniques.

Students, in groups, carry out a recipe and successfully prepare food. After they finish making the product, they compare each group's products and complete "Evaluation of Crunchy Munchy Chocolate-Peanut Goop."

Students research simple and complex inheritance patterns, fetal development and the potential complications of teratogens, fetal and genetic testing, and the ethical, legal, and social implications of genetic counseling.