Science Buddies
Science Buddies: How Much Baking Powder Do Quick Breads Need?
If you like to bake, this could be a good project for you. There is a purpose for each of the ingredients in your recipes, but not everyone is always aware of what that purpose may be. Though this lab takes multiple days, you will...
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Science Buddies: Project Ideas: Rocketology: Baking Soda and Vinegar
The objective of this science fair project is to determine the correct ratio of baking soda to vinegar that will result in the highest launch of a plastic film canister. The Science Buddies project ideas are set up consistently beginning...
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Science Buddies: Can Baking Soda Substitute for Baking Powder in a Recipe?
There's nothing quite like the smell of fresh-baked muffins for breakfast on a Saturday morning. If you're into baking, you might want to try this insightful project that lets you witness the chemistry behind making muffins. You'll get...
American Chemical Society
American Chemical Society: Development of Baking Powder
The invention of baking powder had a huge impact on bakers' ability to produce and distribute bread to large numbers of people. The history of this lowly ingredient is presented, along with a chemistry lesson plan for secondary students.
American Chemical Society
Inquiry in Action: Exploring Baking Powder
An activity that allows students to discover the active ingredients in baking powder by studying chemical change. Lab activity includes both teacher and student instructions.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Bake Your Ice Cream
This activity will teach you how it is even possible to bake ice cream in a hot oven and have it come out frozen.
Read Works
Read Works: Bread Baking Now and Then
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about bread and how it was made differently throughout history and among different cultures. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
John Wiley & Sons
An Algorithm: Baking a Cake
A single slide that defines the term algorithm and then lists the steps to bake a cake as an example
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 6.ns Baking Cookies
Sixth graders are asked to do arithmetic with fractions in order to calculate the amount of ingredients they have for baking cookies and how many batches they can make. Aligns with 6.NS.A.1.
Science Struck
Science Struck: Baking Soda: Chemical Formula, Preparation, and Uses
Baking soda has a variety of uses, including for household cleaning and for baking. Read about its chemical formula and its common reactions.
Science Struck
Science Struck: Washing Soda vs. Baking Soda: Definitive Comparison
This article explains the chemical composition of washing soda and of baking soda and how each is used.
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Plants and Food: Let's Bake Granola!
A story about making granola. Includes audio narration in six additional languages with text in English.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Grandma Thinks It's Cake Baking Weather
Second graders understand how daily life has changed over the past 150 years.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 6.ns Bake Sale
This task asks students to apply the concepts of factors and common factors in a real-world context. Aligns with 6.NS.B.4.
American Chemical Society
Middle School Chemistry: Controlling Amount of Products in a Chemical Reaction
Students analyze the chemical equation for the reaction between vinegar and baking soda. They observe that the gas produced in the reaction is also part of the products of the written chemical equation.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Egg Substitutes
Egg allergies are not uncommon, therefore many egg substitutes are sold in order to bake, and cook recipes that call for them. In this science project idea, you'll investigate how to modify recipes so that even egg-allergic friends and...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Torpedo Designing Contest
In this combined Chemistry and Physics lab, students investigate how to create pipette torpedoes that will be propelled using the chemical reaction of baking soda and vinegar.
Fun Brain
Fun Brain: Fresh Baked Fractions (Equivalent Fractions)
Learn to identify equivalent fractions in this game with four different levels of play. CCSS.Math.Content.3.NF.A.3.a Understand two fractions as equivalent (equal) if they are the same size, or the same point on a number line and...
Curated OER
Eternal Egypt: Statuette of a Man Baking Bread
The statuette shows a man wearing a short linen kilt seated before an oven. He is kneading dough and baking bread.
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Allrecipes
This site has a huge database of recipes. Find what you want to eat here and then follow the recipe for a delicious treat.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: The Chemistry of Cookies
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...
Other
Cooking With Kids: Breakfast Baked in a Bar
Here is a simple recipe for kids to try with their parents' help. Learn to make breakfast bars using crescent rolls, apples, walnuts, caramels and common ingredients that are probably already in your kitchen.
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Science Alive: Chemical Reactions and How You Know When You've Made Something
For this activity, students carry out a chemical reaction in which two reactants (baking soda and hydrochloric acid) produce three products (sodium chloride, carbon dioxide gas, and water) and determine that the solid product (sodium...
Museum of Science
Museum of Science and Industry: Online Science: Create Gas
Follow these simple, step-by-step instructions to create and observe the results of the chemical reaction between vinegar and baking soda.
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