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STEAM in Everyday Life: Food, Cooking, and Baking

STEAM in Everyday Life: Food, Cooking, and Baking. Colorado State Library Beth Crist, Youth & Family Services Consultant Ashley Kazyaka, Library Development Support. What is STEAM?. Inclusion of Arts Arts as a broad mindset

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STEAM in Everyday Life: Food, Cooking, and Baking

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  1. STEAM in Everyday Life: Food, Cooking, and Baking Colorado State Library Beth Crist, Youth & Family Services Consultant Ashley Kazyaka, Library Development Support

  2. What is STEAM? • Inclusion of Arts • Arts as a broad mindset • Integration of subjects, not just existing apart from each other • Think like an engineer, scientist, artist • Creativity and design-centric thinking • False dichotomy of art vs.science

  3. Why Food and Cooking? • Fun (Everyone likes to play with their food!) • Relevant to everyday life • Easily applicable

  4. Safety Issues and Other Concerns • Potential for allergy issues • Non-toxic ingredients for younger children – if they can put it in their mouths, they will! • Parental permission • Concern about sensitivity for children who might not have enough to eat at home • Obvious safety issues with heat sources, etc.

  5. Let’s Play!

  6. Science • Make your own ice cream • Baking soda and vinegar volcanos/explosions • Non-Newtonian fluids (Gak, oobleck, slime) • Blind scent-blind taste test of fruit flavored candy

  7. Science • Make your own solutions: • For younger kids, adding salt, sugar, dirt, solid objects, etc. to water • For older kids, oil and water plus emulsifiers • Iron-fortified cereal tests • Red cabbage as pH tester

  8. Technology • Design your own kitchen gadgets • Historical exploration of how cooking tools evolved • Make your own conductive play dough, then build squishy circuits • Potato or lemon battery • Banana piano with MaKeyMaKey

  9. Engineering • Pizza box solar oven • S’mores (adaptation of activity from CSLP manual) • Grilled cheese • Peep/marshmallow explosions • Gingerbread houses (cardboard or cookies) • Marshmallow catapults

  10. Art • Playdough/clay/modeling foam recipes • Decorating cupcakes • Fondant shapes/structures • Design your own food ads/packaging • Dried apple heads • Dyeing with food and natural ingredients • Possible historical tie-in

  11. Math • For younger children: • Counting • Measuring • Following a recipe • Shapes/color/size recognition • For older children: • Fractions/percentages increasing or decreasing recipes • Nutrition information – reading a label • Polling on food preferences & charts • Weights and conversions

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