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Microwave Cooking

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students learn the basic principles of microwave cooking and prepare a dessert in the microwave using correct procedures.
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What's Cooking - A Colonial Recipe

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders explore Colonial and modern techniques, vocabulary, and ingredients of cooking and recipes. They gain understanding of the challenges of cooking in colonial times and modern adaptations.
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Clever Cooking Book Review Directions

For Students 4th - 6th
For this literature and literacy worksheet, students select a recipe from a cookbook to review. They investigate the type of food it entails, the ingredients and tools need to make the food, and the safety concerns. They cook the recipe...
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Basic Nutrition (Nutri/Food)

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students analyze the nutrition found in a food and compare it to the nutrition found in similar food. They compare the nutrition of different products and complete the student worksheet Pyramid Pizzazz. This can be done at the beginning...
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Cooking With Geography

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Sstudents use desktop publishing to create "real world" documents from information received from collaborating classes. They create an electronic presentation from Internet research. They experience foods from different states and regions.
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Cooking Crepes in Ms. Stentella's French Class

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students explore eating, cooking, and life in France and identify table-setting vocabulary and restaurant conversational skills. After reviewing the crepe recipe, students pair up and do a mini WebQuest on crepes and find cultural...
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Cooking With Your Three Sisters

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students make food based on recipes they got from their ancestors and make the original recipes and healthier versions. In this food lesson plan, students bring their recipes to class and see if their classmates can tell the difference.
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Math, Chemistry, and Food

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Learners explore the effects of chemical reactions when cooking. Using the Internet, they research enzymes and then mix jello. They examine their results and test enzyme activity by adding pineapple to the jello. Finally, they test...
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Cooking Fun

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students explore a variety of methods for the measurement of dry, semi-solid, and liquid ingredients. Real kitchen utensils and food items are utilized in this instructional activity.
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Home Cooking Assignment

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Pupils practice reading recipes and making products at home. They review the basics of lab management and safety procedures: sanitation, measuring, altering recipes, table setting and mealtime manners, basic utensils and their use, food...
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Foods and Cooking - Cross Out Puzzle Two

For Students 2nd - 3rd
For this ESL activity worksheet, learners read the chart of food words and cooking techniques. Students cross out the words in the diagram using the instructions.
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Cowboy Cooking

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explain uses and reasons for leftovers. They compare similarities and differences between present day food and what the cowboys ate.
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Food: Eating Habits

For Students 7th - 8th
Students match pictures of people eating certain foods with the correct phrase. Student pairs interview each other in order to gather and compare information on food eating habits, and awareness of nutritional value - or lack thereof.
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Chemical Change in the Kitchen

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Students examine chemical changes to food. In this chemical changes lesson plan, students make foods and observe the changes. The changes are recorded in an observation journal. Students photograph food they make at different stages in...
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Let's Make a Meal: A Study of Oats

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students investigate the history and health benefits of oats. In this food history and nutrition lesson, students describe the origin of oats in America, define nutrition related vocabulary, and read and follow recipes for making...
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A Measure of Success

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students explore mathematics by cooking recipes in class. In this ingredient measuring lesson, students view several recipes in class they wish to cook and practice translating the recipe into a large enough creation that can feed the...
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Handwashing and Sanitation

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students experience and visualize first hand the importance of proper hand washing through a hand washing experiment with different temperatures of water and with a different length of time to wash. They prevent food-borne illness and...
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Oklahoma Stone Soup

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Learners discover the history of the Oklahoma Territory and what foods cowboys used to eat while on the move.  In this culinary activity, students read the ingredients to Oklahoma Stone Soup and prepare them in a crock pot over the...
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"Four" Goodness Sake

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders recognize that ethnicity, religion and geography are reflected in the food choices we make. For this food choices lesson, 4th graders discuss different types of food from different places. Students compare a menu to the...
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Cuisine and Etiquette

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students identify the main food in the different cultures they have examined. In groups, they compare and contrast their expected table manners to the ones in Sierra Leone, Uganda and Zambia. Using this list of behaviors, they identify...
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Gourmet Chef or Fast Food Mama?

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Learners examine the contents of a 17th century women's kitchen. Using probate records, they compare them with a historian's record of the same event. They complete an inventory of a kitchen of a women in their own lives.
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Oregon Trail Cooking

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students compare differences between cooked and fresh greens. They realize how simplicity of recipe makes for easy travel on the Oregon Trail.
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What's Cooking? It Starts with a Plan and a List

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students create a meal plan for their family. In this adult health science activity, students discuss the benefits of using a shopping list. They explain how these methods can help them save time and make healthy meals.
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How is Rice Used in Food from Different Cultures?

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders examine how rice is used in different cultures. In this culture lesson, 5th graders explain the similarities between dolmas and sushi, then name two different Mexican rice dishes. Students learn new vocabulary words,...

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