Food Chemistry
Integration Ideas and Activities
Lesson 13
Testing Foods for Proteins

Lesson
Activities to Consider
Tools
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Mathematics

Design table to record results

Weigh a carton of small, medium, or large eggs; find average weight of one egg; compare average with actual weight, weights of each size, and cost to determine best buy

Graph favorite ways to eat eggs; survey other classes for data

Language Arts

Make up questions about food chemistry and record each question on an index card; use cards to play a quiz game

Write a shape poem about a food that contains proteins

Read The Milk Makers by Gail Gibbons

  • share a recipe using milk
  • design a flow chart describing the milk production process

 

Write an adventure story describing a pioneers' trip into a wilderness -- past or future; how would they prepare for protein in their diet on the Space Station or Oregon Trail?

Social Studies

Research egg production; diagram to show steps from hen at poultry farm to grocery


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