On 4/13/2013 4:29 PM, Tara wrote:
> We study heat each year, so as a culminating activity to demonstrate
> conduction, convection, insulators, and uses of heat, we made bread in my
> bread machine Friday. We use the baking as a chance to discuss
> measurement and elapsed time as well. I have never had a class as
> excited as this one to bake and taste the bread. They looked forward to
> it all week and enjoyed it so much.
>
> Tara
>


It always amazed me how many students (young and old) didn't know the
origin or process of creating things like bread, cheese, pickles,
butter, etc.

When our son was about 3 years old we planted a lot of fruit trees in
the yard. We asked if there was any type of fruit he'd like us to grow.
With a very serious look on his face, he asked "Do potato chips grow on
trees?"

"gloria p" > wrote in message
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> On 4/13/2013 4:29 PM, Tara wrote:
>> We study heat each year, so as a culminating activity to demonstrate
>> conduction, convection, insulators, and uses of heat, we made bread in my
>> bread machine Friday. We use the baking as a chance to discuss
>> measurement and elapsed time as well. I have never had a class as
>> excited as this one to bake and taste the bread. They looked forward to
>> it all week and enjoyed it so much.
>>
>> Tara
>>
>
>
> It always amazed me how many students (young and old) didn't know the
> origin or process of creating things like bread, cheese, pickles, butter,
> etc.
>
> When our son was about 3 years old we planted a lot of fruit trees in the
> yard. We asked if there was any type of fruit he'd like us to grow.
> With a very serious look on his face, he asked "Do potato chips grow on
> trees?"
>
<g> There's a boy who knows what he likes

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In article >,
gloria p > wrote:

> On 4/13/2013 4:29 PM, Tara wrote:
> > We study heat each year, so as a culminating activity to demonstrate
> > conduction, convection, insulators, and uses of heat, we made bread in my
> > bread machine Friday. We use the baking as a chance to discuss
> > measurement and elapsed time as well. I have never had a class as
> > excited as this one to bake and taste the bread. They looked forward to
> > it all week and enjoyed it so much.
> >
> > Tara
> >
>
>
> It always amazed me how many students (young and old) didn't know the
> origin or process of creating things like bread, cheese, pickles,
> butter, etc.
>
Cooking or baking is a great (and reasonably priced) way to teach
chemistry and physics. All of the rules apply.

Cindy

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In article >,
Cindy Fuller > wrote:

> Cooking or baking is a great (and reasonably priced) way to teach
> chemistry and physics. All of the rules apply.

Certainly. If Cindy had studied physics, she wouldn't need those 500
cookbooks. Give me my classical and quantum mechanics texts, maybe a
tome or two on thermo and biochem, and I can derive all those recipes
from first principles.

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Julian Vrieslander

On Tuesday, 16 April 2013 09:56:14 UTC+10, Julian Vrieslander wrote:
> Cindy Fuller > wrote:
>
> > Cooking or baking is a great (and reasonably priced) way to teach
> > chemistry and physics. All of the rules apply.
>
> Certainly. If Cindy had studied physics, she wouldn't need those 500
> cookbooks. Give me my classical and quantum mechanics texts, maybe a
> tome or two on thermo and biochem, and I can derive all those recipes
> from first principles.

Now that I would like to see! I think that the thermo and chem is more central, and still one will miss the social and aesthetic component.

Still, there's lots of good education stuff in cooking. One of the best student assignments I saw last year was on cooking steaks: numerical solution of the time-dependent heat equation to predict optimum flipping times, and experiment test.

On 4/15/2013 5:56 PM, Julian Vrieslander wrote:
> In article >,
> Cindy Fuller > wrote:
>
>> Cooking or baking is a great (and reasonably priced) way to teach
>> chemistry and physics. All of the rules apply.
>
> Certainly. If Cindy had studied physics, she wouldn't need those 500
> cookbooks. Give me my classical and quantum mechanics texts, maybe a
> tome or two on thermo and biochem, and I can derive all those recipes
> from first principles.
>



You will have cooked something but will it taste good?

gloria p