What’s Cooking???

How many of you like to eat pizza? How about chocolate chip cookies? We love to eat…but do we love to cook???

In this WebQuest, you will explore your culinary skills! You will learn how to make a solar oven, find recipes, look for food borne illnesses, and explore culinary schools nationwide! Plus we will do some taste testing at the end!!

GET YOUR CHEF’S HAT READY!!!!!

STEP 1

At home we use ovens powered by gas, electricity, or wood (if you have an old wood burning stove). For this WebQuest, you are going to learn how to make an oven that is powered and heated by the SUN!!! The best way is to make one out of a pizza box. Check it out here:

If you would like a challenge, take a look at some other ways to make a solar oven.

HOT DOG COOKER

OTHER SOLAR OVENS

STEP 2

Now that you’ve had a chance to check out the solar ovens, it’s time for step 2. What are you going to cook? Have you decided already? Some suggestions already have been pizza and hot dogs. You are free to explore some other foods that might be fun to cook in a solar oven.

ALL RECIPES

COOKS RECIPES.COM

Your recipe needs to be able to serve 6 people. If the recipe you found does not serve 6 people, you need to be able to convert your recipe numbers to a larger recipe or a smaller recipe. Use this site to help you.

MATH IN DAILY LIFE: COOKING BY NUMBERS

*Checking Point

How are you doing? So far you should have:

  1. Learned how to make a solar oven.
  2. Picked out a recipe.

Step 3

We all want to taste your creation, but we don’t want to get sick! You need to do a little research on the illness that was assigned to you. Here is a list of all the illnesses assigned.

Hepatitis A

Amebiasis

Staphylococcal food poisoning

Botulism

Listeriosis

Campylobacteriosis

Salmonellosis

Giardiasis

Vibrio infection

Shigellosis

Perfringens food poisoning

Explore at least one of the following websites. You should be able to find out a minimum of 3 interesting facts about your food illness. Be prepared to present them as an informational poster or pamphlet. If you can, find a picture of your bacteria or organism that causes the illness.

FIGHT BAC

FDA / CFSAN FOOD-BORNE ILLNESS

FOOD SAFETY CLEANING TIPS

When presenting your information as a pamphlet or poster, you can use Microsoft Word. All you need to do is organize your information on the page and insert some clip art if you can (or cut and paste a picture of your bacteria into the word document).

It can be just one page and it doesn’t have to be fancy. Just do your best and be creative.

Next…

Visit the following site and create your own puzzle by using the food illness list. You may print it out when you are finished.

STEP 4

What if you wanted to become a chef? (Emeril didn’t teach himself!) There are many culinary schools found in the U.S. Check out the links below and find out where the closest culinary school is and it’s name. Is that where you would go? Or would you rather go to Hawaii to learn to cook? Find a culinary school and tell me

  1. Name of School
  2. Tuition for year or semester
  3. Where it is located

Be prepared to put this information on the back of your illness poster or pamphlet.

CULINARY SCHOOLS

COOKING SCHOOLS

FINALLY!!!!!

You have just completed the WebQuest! I hope you have learned a lot and had fun doing it! You should have made a solar oven, found a recipe, researched an illness, and checked out a culinary school! WOW! You should be ready to take center stage at the next local bake off!

*Check out the evaluation list to make sure you have completed everything correctly!

EVALUATION

This project has many components. The following list will help to remind you what is required of you and how many points it is worth.

SOLAR OVEN25 points

(KNOW WHAT TYPE YOU MADE,

HAVE IT COMPLETED AND AT

SCHOOL ON DUE DATE)

RECIPE5 points

(WRITTEN OUT ON PAPER

WITH MEASUREMENTS AND

SERVINGS LISTED)

FOOD BORNE ILLNESS15 points

(PRESENT POSTER OR PAMPHLET TO

CLASS WITH 3 FACTS AND A PICTURE

OF YOUR ILLNESS/BACTERIA)

CULINARY SCHOOL5 points

(TELL US ABOUT ONE SCHOOL

GIVE NAME, TUITION, AND LOCATION)

TOTAL POINTS50 POINTS

*Notice: Late or incomplete components of this project will result in point reduction.

TEACHER NOTES

*This WebQuest was designed for grades 5-12.

*It is suggested that this WebQuest be done during a warm season of the year.

*You may conduct this WebQuest in two different ways:

  1. The students can work in pairs or groups
  2. Steps may be skipped, depending on what you would like to accomplish.

*This WebQuest is a cross-curricular project. Math, Science, Health and English are all addressed in this activity.

*Some Indiana State Standards that are covered in this WebQuest are:

SCIENCE
Matter* and Energy*

6.3.17

MATH

Computation

6.2.6

6.2.7

6.2.10

ENGLISH

Reading

6.2.1

Comprehension

6.2.4

6.2.5

Writing

6.5.4

6.6.1

6.6.4

6.6.5

Listening and Speaking

6.7.1

6.7.3

6.7.12

If you would like to make any extra worksheets or quizzes to go along with this WebQuest, check out this site:

DISCOVERY SCHOOL

If you would like to make and print your own rubric for this project, visit these sites:

RUBISTAR

KATHY SCHROCK’S ASSESSMENT AND RUBRIC INFORMATION

WebQuest created by

Julie Walstra

June 2003