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Read Works

Read Works: Bread Baking Now and Then

For Teachers 3rd
[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.
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John Wiley & Sons

An Algorithm: Baking a Cake

For Students 9th - 10th
A single slide that defines the term algorithm and then lists the steps to bake a cake as an example
eBook
Unite for Literacy

Unite for Literacy: Plants and Food: Let's Bake Granola!

For Students K - 1st
A story about making granola. Includes audio narration in six additional languages with text in English.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Torpedo Designing Contest

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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.
Interactive
Fun Brain

Fun Brain: Fresh Baked Fractions (Equivalent Fractions)

For Students 3rd - 7th Standards
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...
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Curated OER

Eternal Egypt: Statuette of a Man Baking Bread

For Students 9th - 10th
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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Other

Allrecipes

For Students 9th - 10th
This site has a huge database of recipes. Find what you want to eat here and then follow the recipe for a delicious treat.
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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...
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Other

Cooking With Kids: Breakfast Baked in a Bar

For Students 3rd - 8th
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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Museum of Science

Museum of Science and Industry: Online Science: Create Gas

For Students Pre-K - 1st
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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Curated OER

Web Gallery of Art: Baking of Flat Cakes

For Students 11th - 12th
An image of "Baking of Flat Cakes", created by Bartolome Esteban Murillo from 1645-50 (Oil on canvas, 165 x 121 cm).
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Curated OER

Eternal Egypt: Low Relief of Baking and Brewing

For Students 9th - 10th
This low-relief shows twelve men making beer. They are shown first fermenting bread and then squeezing the wet mash through sieves to collect the liquid in jars.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Concepts, Classification and States of Matter

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Freshly baked bread and cherry pie are two delicious parts of any meal. What happens to the ingredients that go into the bread and the pie as they are heated in the...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Acids and Bases: Making a Film Canister Rocket

For Students Pre-K - 1st
ZOOM cast members mix different amounts of baking soda and vinegar to see which combination produces the most carbon dioxide for launching a film-canister rocket. [3:23]
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Reaction Exposed: The Big Chill!

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students investigate the endothermic reaction involving citric acid, sodium bicarbonate and water to produce carbon dioxide, water and sodium citrate. In the presence of water [H2O]; citric acid [C6H8O7] and sodium bicarbonate [NaHCO3]...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Natural Disasters

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students are introduced to our planet's structure and its dynamic system of natural forces through an examination of the natural hazards of earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides, tsunamis, floods and tornados, as well as avalanches, fires,...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Digestion Simulation

For Teachers 6th - 8th
To reinforce students' understanding of the human digestion process, the functions of several stomach and small intestine fluids are analyzed, and the concept of simulation is introduced through a short, introductory demonstration of how...
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Other

Frostburg State University: Organic Chemistry Help

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is designed to be a supplement for students of organic chemistry. Its tutorials and self-grading tests are interactive and extremely helpful.
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Children's Books Online

Children's Books Online: The Comical Cruises of Captain Cooky

For Students 2nd - 5th
"The Comical Cruises of Captain Cooky", published in 1926 by Royal Baking Powder Co., has been digitized and made available by the Rosetta Project. This 34 page book is appropriate for early readers.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Designing a Reaction Rate Experiment

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students will design, conduct, and report the outcome of an experiment in which they investigate some factor that affects the rate of reaction between baking soda and vinegar. The dynamic nature of the reaction, coupled...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: What Does a Buffer Do?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Buffers are solutions that resist a change in pH. In this activity, students will add HCl dropwise to a measured amount of water, monitoring the pH. Students then repeat the process, using a simple buffer prepared by combining baking...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Classifying Chemical and Physical Changes in Various Materials/substances

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this classroom lab, students will investigate the characteristics of a chemical change. Students will also provide a definition of what constitutes a physical change through observation of several examples. Students will use/create...
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: The Little Red Hen [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
"The Little Red Hen" is a one page fable about the other animals not helping the little red hen plant wheat, harvest it, or bake the bread, so they did not get to eat it either. It is followed by constructed-response questions which...
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Climate Literacy

Clean: Automotive Emissions and the Greenhouse Effect

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This is a laboratory activity in which students will compare the amount of carbon dioxide in four different sources of gas and determine the carbon dioxide contribution from automobiles. They test ambient air, human exhalation,...

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