Web Sites For Parents
Looking for a great way to keep kids busy, teach them something, and have fun all at the same time? Visit these great websites for some delicious kid recipes and activities.
- Art and Cooking
- Looking for ways to introduce kids to cooking and let them create art at the same time? You found it.
http://www.kiddiecampus.com/artcook.htm - Jell-O-Kids' Cooking Fun
- Kraft offers this site to celebrate popular Jell-O recipes kids will love making. You can even find rules of the kitchen and cooking tips.
http://www.kraftfood.com?html/features/jello.html - Kids Cooking Club
- Great recipes and fun activities.
http://www.kidscook.com/ - Kids Kuisine
- Home of recipes for kids and recipes kids can make.
http://www.kidskuisine.com/ - Kidstuff
- Hundreds of kooky and yummy recipes just for kids. Amazing Ooze Ants on a Log Art Dough Bacon and Eggs Candy.
http://www.mcgees.com/kitchen/kidstuff.htm - Rainy Day Resource Page
- Welcome to the Rainy Day Resource Page. An Onlne guide to activities for children. Oh! The places you'll go. Includes recipes, activities and links to other fun sites.
http:www.cpinternet.com/~sarah/index.html
Web Sites For Teachers
Thinking of incorporating cooking into your curriculum?
- Cooking provides lots of hands on math experience: measurement, number values, graphing, multiplying, dividing.
- It is real life language arts: vocabulary, reading, following directions.
- It provides opportunities for cooperative learning, study of holidays and multicultural experiences.
- It allows for experimentation, teaching and reinforcing science safety rules.
Cooking is definitely a useful teaching tool. Here are some great websites.
- Classroom Cooking
- Your students will experience cooking first hand with these single serving recipes.
http://kconnect.com/kc-cooking.html - Cooking and Learning Together
- This site gives an excellent overview of the learning experiences children gain by cooking projects.
http://www.cfc-efc.ca/docs/00000081.htm - Cooking on the Trail
- This ThinkQuest entry presents the conditions pioneers endured cooking and eating while headed west.
http://tqjunior.thinkquest.org/6400/cooking.htm - Meals For You
- An excellent recipe resource to use when cooking in your classroom.
http://mymenus.com - Picture Recipes
- Dozen kid-tested recipes presented in plain text. Each includes a link to the same instructions presented completely in pictures. Great for non-readers, visual learners, and student testing problem solving skills by following non-verbal cues.
http://www.bry-backmanor.org/picturerecipes.html
This list is currently arranged by subject and has examples of types of books that could be included in this unit. Notice, under food there are some examples of specific foods that could be used, other foods that might be included are spaghetti, popcorn, and pizza, to name a few. Your entire focus could be on a food, a culture, a time period, or food in general.
We would appreciate teacher input to complete this list. We are hoping that because this unit contains almost equal fiction and nonfiction it will tie-in with the language competencies and other subject matter. Currently we do not have levels attached to the titles. We will indicate levels for final selection on the fiction; most of the nonfiction can cross grade levels.
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Story Cloths
Topographical Maps
Make Your Own Butter
Coffee Can Ice Cream