1 . Like many parents working from home while their kids are learning remotely, we’ve been looking for creative ways to connect with our children — and nowhere has this been truer than in the kitchen.
Kitchen science, as Liz Heinecke, author of Kitchen Science Lab for Kids calls it doesn’t require any fancy equipment or ingredients (配料)—and, best of all in the era of remote education, we can combine science lessons with everyday meal preparations. By helping with cooking, kids can engage in lively, project-based lessons. Actually, even the easiest recipes include both simple and complex scientific concepts.
Kitchen science isn’t just about what we’re cooking: it’s also about understanding why It’s worth taking the time to figure out how ingredients and temperature interact and why substances behave the way they do. Everyone involved will learn something.
For example, we all know oil and water don’t mix easily, but we can change this by adding mustard (芥末) to the oil and water to make a salad dressing. This is an opportunity to teach kids about the science of emulsions (乳化). Adding lemon juice to a vegetable stops that vegetable from turning brown: cabbage changes color when you add vinegar to it. Both of those phenomena are the result of chemical reactions. In the classroom, it can be hard to see how scientific concepts will apply outside the lab. But when kids see these concepts play out in the real world, that sparks curiosity and learning.
“Every time you step into your kitchen to cook, you put science to work. In fact, physics and chemistry come into play whenever you steam, bake, freeze or boil. Thus, every time you step into the kitchen, it’s an opportunity for everyone to learn more about science,” Liz Heinecke said.
1. What are parents expected to do in the kitchen?| A．Ask kids to cook a meal on their own. | B．Do science experiments in the kitchen. |
| C．Pay attention to cooking ingredients. | D．Combine scientific concepts with recipes. |
| A．Raw materials are important in the kitchen. |
| B．Procedures to cook dinner must be followed. |
| C．Cooking can inspire kids’ interest in studying science. |
| D．Family education is more important than school education. |
| A．Cooking can benefit both kids and parents. |
| B．Parents need to master different cooking skills. |
| C．Lab experiments can be repeated at home. |
| D．Schools should offer cooking courses. |
| A．To practice healthy eating habits. |
| B．To learn food science out of the lab. |
| C．To turn meal preparations into family learning. |
| D．To teach kids some recipes for cooking in the kitchen. |
