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October 6, 2006 Alphabet Kitchen: Ham and Cheese Muffin/Bagel "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: Break muffins or slice bagel in half and cook in toaster. Place on microwave-proof dish. Place a slice of ham and a slice of cheese on top of each half. Heat in microwave until cheese melts (approximately 15-20 seconds on high). Allow to cool slightly before eating. Makes two servings. Alphabet Kitchen Learning Activity Pennsylvania Academic Standards: Science:3.8.7.A and 3.3.7 A While you are eating your ham and cheese muffin, look around the kitchen at all of the machines your family uses daily. Make a list of the machines you see. Your list might included these items: microwave, refrigerator, oven, stove, coffee maker, toaster, blender, food processor, can opener, etc. Machines make our lives easier and give us time to do other things. Hundreds of years ago, most of the day was spent doing household chores. People had to carry water from a well into the house, gather wood to cook over an open fire and clean the house and clothes by hand. To better appreciate the way machines make our lives easier try the following activities with your family and friends: Activity #1 Ham and Cheese Muffin 150 Years Ago Using the recipe for the Ham and Cheese Muffin write down the directions as if you were making the muffin 150 years ago. Remember you cannot rely on modern machines because they have not been invented yet. Your directions might look like this: Directions
To get the ham, you must either slaughter a pig or use meat that has been preserved with salt (no refrigeration). The cheese (low fat was not an option) would have to be aged from milk that you gathered from your cow or goat. Questions to answer: The modern recipe for Ham and Cheese Muffins takes approximately 3 minutes or less to prepare. One hundred and fifty years ago, how long do you think the recipe would have taken? Which modern machine would you miss the most if you had to prepare the recipe following the new directions that you wrote? Activity #2 How does a microwave work? Your family probably uses a microwave every day, but did you ever stop to think about how it works? Try to answer the following questions about the microwave oven. Use the Internet as a resource to help you find the answers if you have trouble completing the questions.
Answers: 1. B, 2. A, 3. True, 4 .True Information adapted from: How Things Work By Alison Porter, copyright date 2003, published by Barnes and Nobel, Inc. For more Alphabet Kitchen fun, visit www.alphabetkitchen.org! October 13, 2006 Alphabet Kitchen: Ice Cream in a Bag "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: Fill a gallon sized zip type plastic bag full of ice and then add the 6 tablespoons of rock salt. Seal the bag. Put milk, vanilla extract, and sugar into pint size zip type plastic bag, and seal it. Place the small bag inside the larger one with ice and seal again carefully. Shake until mixture is ice cream, about 5 minutes. Wipe off top of small bag, then open carefully and enjoy! Makes one serving. Alphabet Kitchen Learning Activity Pennsylvania Academic Standards: Science and Technology 3.4.7 A Did you know that delicious bowl of ice cream you just made is a rather complex scientific experiment? Making ice cream involves changing the state of the cream mixture from a liquid to a solid. There are three states of matter we see on Earth: solid, liquid, and gas. A gas that loses enough heat turns into a liquid. A liquid that loses enough heat freezes into a solid. See if you can answer the following question using the Internet or your science textbook. Facts:
Question: How does adding rock salt change the freezing point of ice? Answers: Adding the salt to the ice does three things: 1. It lowers the freezing point of the water to approximately 1degree F. 2. It melts some of the ice in the bag. 3. It lowers the temperature of the salt/ice/water mixture. Since melting requires energy, heat gets stolen from the salt/ice/water mixture, making it colder than it was without the salt. If the mixture gets down to 10 degrees F, the ice cream chills down past its own freezing point (14 degrees F) and turns into a solid ice cream. Information adapted from: Flash! Bang! Pop! Fizz! Exciting Science for Curious Minds by Janet Parks Charhrour, copyright 2000, published by Barron's Educational Series, Inc. For more Alphabet Kitchen fun, visit www.alphabetkitchen.org! October 20, 2006 Alphabet Kitchen: Jack Rabbit 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: Place one lettuce leaf on each plate. Place pear half cut side down onto the lettuce leaf. Place approximately 1/4 cup cottage cheese at the bottom (or wide end) of the pear half for the bunny's tail. Place two raisins on the narrow end of the pear for the eyes and one for the nose. Add two whole almonds for his ears. Put a baby carrot by the bunny's mouth. Enjoy you Bunny Salad any time of the year! Makes two salads. Alphabet Kitchen Learning Activity Pennsylvania Academic Standards: Science 3.3.4 A After eating a tasty Jack Rabbit Salad, ask yourself this question: "How much do I know about vegetables?" Botanists divide vegetables into EIGHT categories. Before checking out the list, see if you can name some of the categories. The categories are: leaf, stem, root, tuber, flower and bud, seed and seedpod, fruit-vegetable, and fungi. See if you can identify the following vegetables according to the part of the plant we eat.
Answers: 1. c, 2. a, 3. e, 4. d, 5. a, 6. e, 7. d, 8. c, 9. f, 10. g, 11. g, 12. d, 13. c, 14. d, 15. h, 16. h, 17. g, 18. c, 19. a, 20. f, 21. g, 22. b, 23. g, 24. a, 25. d, 26. g, 27. b, 28. g, 29. a, 30. b, 31. b The vegetable quiz was adapted from: Simple Kitchen Experiments, by Muriel Mandell, copyright date 1993, published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. For more Alphabet Kitchen fun, visit www.alphabetkitchen.org! October 27, 2006 Alphabet Kitchen: Lettuce Tacos "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: Take your lettuce leaf and drizzle some of your favorite salad dressing down the middle. Thicker dressing, like ranch, works better because it won't run down your arm when you are eating your lettuce boat. Now sprinkle on your favorite chopped vegetables. Add a few croutons. Fold one side of lettuce over the vegetables and then fold the other side over like a salad burrito. Now your lettuce boat is ready to eat. You will need to eat it right away so the croutons don't get soggy. It can be a little messy so you might want to eat it over a plate. Alphabet Kitchen Learning Activity Pennsylvania Academic Standards: Science and Technology 3.3.4 A If you enjoy eating a salad, you may enjoy growing a salad. It is simple, fun and nutritious. Just follow the steps below and in a few days, you will have grown your own lunch! Growing your own Cress What you will need:
Experiment:
Questions to think about:
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