Did you know baking powder can be used to treat acne, whiten teeth, and make sugar cookies? The lesson plan on the development of baking powder is ready-to-go with no preparation required. Through readings, pupils answer questions, complete maps, and analyze the information with Venn diagrams. 

Concepts

chemical formulas, chemical reactions, ionic bonds, covalent bonds, stoichiometry, venn diagrams

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Additional Tags

science

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Instructional Ideas

• Have a nutritionist visit your class, or have your pupils interview a nutritionist about the five different tastes

Classroom Considerations

• The lesson would fit well in a unit teaching chemical formulas
• Lesson would be easy to hand to a substitute with no prior knowledge of the subject
• The fourth in a set of six lessons

Pros

• Highlights history connections to the interdependence of science development and industrailization
• Provides an answer key

Cons

• Does not include any hands-on activities 

Common Core

RST.9-10.2 RST.9-10.5 RST.9-10.7 RST.11-12.2 RST.11-12.5