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December 1, 2006 Alphabet Kitchen: Quick Purple Cow "Alphabet Kitchen" is a new video project created by WQLN! The series of 60-second video segments highlight fun and easy recipes kids can do with their parents right at home. Here's the recipe and an additional learning activity follows! Ingredients:
Directions: Put grape juice and ice cream into blender and blend for 15 seconds or until well mixed. Fill small paper cups about half full of this mixture, then add about 2 oz soda in each cup. Serve immediately. Makes four drinks. Alphabet Kitchen Learning Activity Pennsylvania Academic Standards: Health, Safety, and Physical Education 10.1.3 B Just reading the recipe for a Quick Purple Cow can make you feel thirsty. Have you ever wondered how your body knows when you need a drink? See if you can answer the questions in the following quiz. But before you begin, mix up a frosty Purple Cow, take a big drink and read on. Thirsty Quiz: True or False?
1. True 2. True 3. False, your body is actually 2/3 water. 4. True 5. False, water passes through the walls of the intestines. 6. False, when your blood is concentrated it is thick and you will feel thirsty. 7. True 8. True 9. False, fruits and vegetables contain large amounts of water. 10. True For more Alphabet Kitchen fun, visit www.alphabetkitchen.org! December 8, 2006 Alphabet Kitchen: Red Apple Smiles "Alphabet Kitchen" is a new video project created by WQLN! The series of 60-second video segments highlight fun and easy recipes kids can do with their parents right at home. Here's the recipe and an additional learning activity follows! Ingredients:
Directions: Cut the apple in half and core. Slice the apple into 4 or 6 wedges. Take half of the wedges and spread peanut butter on one of the cut sides. Take 5 or 6 miniature marshmallows and place on top of peanut butter. Spread the other half of the apple wedges with peanut butter and place peanut butter side on top of the marshmallows. Say cheese! Makes 3 or 4 serving Alphabet Kitchen Learning Activity Pennsylvania Academic Standards: Science and Technology 3.4.4 A What happens to sliced apples if you don't eat them right away? - They turn brown and yucky! Have you ever wondered why this happens? Try the following experiment to see if you can prevent fruit from going brown. You will need: 1 banana Cutting board 2 small bowls 1/4 cup orange juice Procedure:
What happened? When fruit is sliced, oxygen in the air reacts with chemicals in the fruit to make it turn brown. The process is called oxidation. The banana without the orange juice turned brown but the banana with the orange juice did not. Vitamin C, and antioxidant present in orange juice, prevented the oxidation process from taking place. Experiment adapted from: The Science Chef By Joan D'Amico and Karen Eich Drummond, copyright date 1995, published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. For more Alphabet Kitchen fun, visit www.alphabetkitchen.org! December 15, 2006 Alphabet Kitchen: Sunshine Salad "Alphabet Kitchen" is a new video project created by WQLN! The series of 60-second video segments highlight fun and easy recipes kids can do with their parents right at home. Here's the recipe and an additional learning activity follows! Ingredients:
Directions: Put one slice pineapple onto a plate. Place a dollop of yogurt in the middle of the pineapple slice. Place the orange segments on the outside of the pineapple slice, like the rays of the sun. Serve on lettuce leaf, if desired. Makes four sunshine salads. Alphabet Kitchen Learning Activity Pennsylvania Academic Standards: Health, Safety, and Physical Education 10.2.3B Before you recycle the yogurt container from your Sunshine Salad, take a moment and look at the Nutrition Facts on the food label. Have you ever stopped to read all of the information given on your food? If you haven't, give it a try and here are a few tips on reading the food label. Categories on a Food Label: Nutrition Facts - This section tells you the serving size and how many servings are in the package. If the servings per container were 1, you would have to eat all of the food in the package to get the amounts of the nutrients listed. Amount per servings - This section tells you the number of calories in the serving and the number of calories from fat. % Daily Value - The % Daily Value column tells you how much of the daily recommended amount of a nutrient this food contributed to a 2,000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on how many calories you need. Total Fat, Cholesterol, Sodium, Total Carbohydrate, Protein, Vitamins and Minerals - The nutrients listed are those most important to the health of the average American. You should try to eat 100% or your carbohydrate, fiber, vitamin and mineral values in one day, over several meals. Experiment adapted from: The Science Chef By Joan D'Amico and Karen Eich Drummond, copyright date 1995, published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. For more Alphabet Kitchen fun, visit www.alphabetkitchen.org! |
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