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.
Website
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Project Ideas: Kimchi Chemistry

For Students 9th - 10th
In this cooking and food science fair project, the student will make a batch of kimchi, the national dish of Korea, and investigate the changes in pH and glucose concentration as it ferments. The Science Buddies project ideas are set up...
Lesson Plan
BioEd Online

Bio Ed Online: Food for the Brain

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The brain needs many different kinds of raw materials from food and ecommended serving sizes are often smaller than the size actually served or the amounts people eat. In this lesson learners are introduced to this concept by dissecting...
Handout
Vision Learning

Visionlearning: Food Chemistry: Carbohydrates

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about carbohydrates, which make up one of the three "Major classes of macronutrients that are essential to living organisms." In addition to defining several terms, including carbohydrate, simple sugars, complex carbohydrates,...
Handout
Science Struck

Science Struck: Examples of Chemistry in Everyday Life

For Students 9th - 10th
Gives examples of chemical interactions occurring in the human body, in the world around us, in foods, and in products we use.
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
US Department of Labor

Bureau of Labor Statistics: Agricultural and Food Scientists

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides information about careers focusing in agriculture and food sciences.
Website
Royal Society of Chemistry

Royal Society of Chemistry: Kitchen Chemistry

For Students 9th - 10th
A scientific approach to kitchen skills takes a look at the chemistry involved in preparing the food we eat.
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.
Interactive
Carnegie Mellon University

Chem Collective: Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Food Dyes

For Students 9th - 10th
An interactive tutorial to determine the amount of dyes present in a powdered beverage in order to examine the allegation that the manufacturer is exceeding the allowable amount of the artificial food dyes in the drinks it produces.he...
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Other

Black Inventors: Lloyd Hall

For Students 3rd - 8th
Lloyd Hall was a pioneer in the field of food chemistry, preservation, and sterilization.
Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: How Blue Is Your Sports Drink?

For Students 9th - 10th
Do you read the list of ingredients in foods and drinks before you buy them at the grocery store? If you do, you may have noticed that many of the items that are blue in color have the same dye, called FD&C blue 1. In this chemistry...
Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Can Baking Soda Substitute for Baking Powder in a Recipe?

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Determining Iodide Content of Salt

For Students 9th - 10th
In this week long "kitchen chemistry" project you will use chemicals from the supermarket to test for the presence of iodine and iodide in salt. These are common micronutrients added to some preparations of table salt. A materials list,...
Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: The Science of Making Cheese!

For Students 6th - 8th
Oooey gooey cheese - yum. Who doesn't like a slice of warm pizza straight from the oven? There's nothing quite like a slice of pizza and a glass of milk, so what makes pizza so great? The cheese. But did you know that making cheese is...
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...
Handout
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Inventor of the Week: Lloyd Augustus Hall

For Students 9th - 10th
Inventor Lloyd Augustus Hall is featured in this brief biography who made several contributions to the food and drug industry such as his patented method for curing meats so they would keep better.
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.

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