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.
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Plants and Food: Bread for Everyone
Learn about the different kinds of breads people eat around the world. Includes audio narration.
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.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Science of Cooking: Bread Science and Facts
Find out the science behind making bread. This site from Exploratorium turns your kitchen into a lab and you can do much more than bake bread. Do experiments with yeast, and find out what is so exciting about gluten.
Pennsylvania State University
Penn State: Medieval Technology & American History: Daily Bread [Pdf]
Outline, compiled by a university research assistant, considers breads and bread making in medieval European society.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Concepts, Classification and States of Matter
[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...
Curated OER
Eternal Egypt: Low Relief of Baking and Brewing
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.
Curated OER
Eternal Egypt: Model of Household Activities
This model depicts, in miniature, 12 people carrying out various household activities such as grinding grain, butchering a calf, and baking bread.
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: The Little Red Hen [Pdf]
"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...
Lesson Tutor
Lesson Tutor: History: Go Eat Your Homework!
Learn a little about a few major cities in the United States while munching on the food that the city is known for. For example, Boston's history goes better while eating Boston Baked Beans and Brown Bread. Recipes are included.
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Pistor
A baker, from pinsere, to pound, since corn was pounded in mortars before the invention of mills. At Rome bread was originally made at home by the women of the house; and there were no persons at Rome who made baking a trade, or any...