Tag: Chemistry

Cooking & Chemistry – Pandemic Homeschooling, Theme 5

Here’s #5! Click here for the list of themes. Speaking of kitchens, I have a cabinet filled with our “quarantine” treats! We’re allowed to have one of each thing per person per day. Treats include capri sun pouches, pop tarts, assorted single serving chips, powdered lemonade mix, etc. Having school closed counts as a quarantine condition, LOL.

Activities

  • Plastic Milk experiment looks high impact with two ingredients, a microwave and a strainer. Fun with cookie cutters! Here’s another experiment question: Will this work with milk made with milk powder?
  • You could try any of these Cookie Experiments, OR you can just bake cookies with different sweeteners to test their differences. Sugar, honey, Splenda, corn syrup are all on the table!
  • Find out how tall you can build a tower made of marshmallows
  • Grow sugar crystals

Books

“Teens Cook: How to Cook What You Want to Eat,” Megan, Jill and Judy Carle, available on Overdrive
“Science Experiments You Can Eat,” Vicki Cobb, available on Amazon ($)
“Eat Your Science Homework, “ Ann McCallum, available on Overdrive

Snacks

Anything you make in these activities!!