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September 1, 2006 Alphabet Kitchen: Cucumber Canoes "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: Peel the cucumber. Cut in half lengthways and hollow out center. Stuff both sides with softened cream cheese and chill. Cut cucumber into thick slices and place green onion strips or chives along sides, like oars. Alphabet Kitchen Learning Activity Pennsylvania Academic Standards: Science 3.4.7.D Unfortunately, you wouldn't make it very far if you tried to ride a cucumber canoe down the river. However, a ride in a real canoe can be great fun. Have you ever wondered why canoes float? Here is a little experiment that you can do with materials you probably already have in your kitchen. You will be looking at both density and buoyancy. Density is the weight of an object compared to its volume or how compact an object is. Buoyancy is the upward force on an object in a fluid. Follow the instructions for the experiment and then see if you can answer the question: Why do canoes float? Materials:
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What happened? Density determines what will float and what will sink. More dense substances sink in less dense liquids. A fresh egg is a little denser than plain water so it sinks. When salt is added to water, particles of salt move in between water particles, making the salt water denser. The salt water is a little denser than the egg, so in salt water, the egg floats. So, you still may be wondering why density differences determine what floats or what sinks? This is where the buoyant force comes in! A force is a push or pull. Water will exert an upward force on objects (like the egg or your canoe) that are put into it because water pressure increases with depth. The Archimedes' Principle says that the strength of the buoyant force is equal to the weight of the water that was moved out of the way by the object. Boats are shaped to displace a lot of water in order to have enough buoyant force exerted on them by the water to float. The canoe you ride in has enough buoyant force to stay afloat because of its shape. Think about the gigantic cruise ships in the ocean-now that's a lot of buoyancy! The next time you are crunching away on a Cucumber Canoe and the question of how a boat floats comes up; you can quote the Archimedes' Principle and really impress your friends. You just might teach them something too! Experiment and information was adapted from: Flash!, Bang! Pop! Fizz! Exciting Science for Curious Minds by Janet Parks Chahrour, copyright 2000 by Barron's Educational Series, Inc. For more Alphabet Kitchen fun, visit www.alphabetkitchen.org! September 8, 2006 Alphabet Kitchen: Dino Dessert "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 a slice of watermelon on a plate with the flat side on the bottom (the dinosaur's body). Put the strawberry halves along the top outside edge of the rind (for his plates). Then use half an orange slice for the head (rind side towards the top) and a raisin for the eye. Take the other half of the orange slice and separate the segments, do not cut through the peel. (This is your dinosaur's tail.) Place the banana "legs" below the watermelon. Makes one large dinosaur! Alphabet Kitchen Learning Activity Pennsylvania Academic Standard: Science 3.3.4 D The Dino Dessert may be a real treat for us, but if the dinosaurs were alive today, some of them wouldn't find it so appealing. In fact, some dinosaurs would much rather eat you! See if you can match the description of a type of dinosaur with the diet it ate.
September 15, 2006 Alphabet Kitchen: Edible Spiders "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: Spread peanut butter on four crackers. Place eight pretzel sticks into the peanut butter to make the eight legs of the spider. Place the other cracker on top to make a sandwich. Using peanut butter, stick the raisins on top of the sandwich to make the spider eyes. Makes four spiders. Alphabet Kitchen Learning Activity Pennsylvania Academic Standards: Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening 1.4.3.A You may or may not like real spiders, but chances are you probably have read about them. Stories about spiders both real and pretend can be found everywhere. When you were younger do you remember saying the poem "Little Miss Muffet" or singing about the "Itsy Bitsy Spider"? Maybe you read the Miss Spider children's books or the classic Charlotte's Web by E.B.White. Now it is your chance to make a contribution to all of the pieces written about spiders. Simply follow the steps below and create a spider poem of your very own.
Now that your poem is finished, whip up some Edible Spiders, invite some friends over and have a poetry reading. Poetry checklist was adapted from: Writing in Action, by Kim Mason, copyright 1997, published by Loyola Press. For more Alphabet Kitchen fun, visit www.alphabetkitchen.org! September 22, 2006 Alphabet Kitchen: Fish Food "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: In a medium mixing bowl combine all ingredients. Store in an airtight container. This is a great summer time snack by the pool or at the beach. Alphabet Kitchen Learning Activity Pennsylvania Academic Standards: Mathematics 2.3.3 A Did you know that ingredients can be measured in three different ways? You can measure by weight, by volume or by counting. Looking at the recipe for Fish Food, name the ingredient you measured by volume? Name the ingredients you measured by weight? Did you measure anything by counting? While cooking you will often use the different forms of measurement. Because you may not always have the exact measuring tool required in a recipe, it is helpful to know that certain units of measure have equivalents (or different ways of measuring the same amount). Now get out some water, measuring spoons, measuring cups and even a stick of butter to see how well you know these common kitchen equivalents:
Answers 1. 3 teaspoons, 2. 16 tablespoons, 3. 8 fluid ounces, 4. 2 pints, 5. 4 cups, 6. 32 fluid ounces, 7. 4 quarts, 8. 1/2 cup, 9. 8 tablespoons For more Alphabet Kitchen fun, visit www.alphabetkitchen.org! September 29, 2006 Alphabet Kitchen: Graham Cracker Stoplight "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 three circles of peanut butter on each graham cracker. Add a strawberry half on the top of each for "STOP". Place an orange slice in the middle for "SLOW". Add green grape slices on the bottom for "GO". Now you have the green light to take a bite! Makes two servings. Alphabet Kitchen Learning Activity Pennsylvania Academic Standards: Health, Safety and Physical Education:10.5.3.A Graham Cracker Stoplights are fun to make and eat, but real stoplights are there to protect you. Did you know that when you are riding your bike you are expected to obey traffic laws just like motor vehicles? See if you can correctly answer the following questions in the bike safety quiz. Good luck and stay safe!
Answers 1. C, 2. B, 3. A, 4. B, 5. left, 6. True For more Alphabet Kitchen fun, visit www.alphabetkitchen.org! |
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