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transform your students' experience in science through food & cooking

We aim to make science education more engaging, accessible, and equitable by supporting science teachers through instructional resources and professional learning.

science lessons rooted in food-based phenomena

Teach science through labs, investigations, videos, and readings centered around phenomena rooted in food and cooking.

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best lessons for the season

Spiciness (Peppers): Polarity & Mixing Substances

Explore capsaicin, the primary molecule behind spice, and see how its molecular structure explains its behavior with other substances.

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Apple Varieties: Inheritance, Phenotype & Genotype

Explore how new apple cultivars are made and consistently grown, what apple traits scientists study, and the degree of influence and understanding they have of them.

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Pomegranate Molasses and Maple Syrup: Thermal Energy and Vaporization

Explore how syrups like pomegranate molasses and maple syrup are produced using natural resources, thermal energy, and vaporization.

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fresh out of the oven: new or recently updated lessons

Sugar (Rock Candy & Tanghulu): Solutions & Covalent Bonding

Essential Questions:

● What is sugar and how is it different than salt?
● How do we make sugar●based candies? What steps are important and why?
● Why does sugar dissolve in water?

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Yeast Breads & Proofing: Chemical Reactions & Temperature (HS Chem)

Essential Questions:

● Why do we add yeast to bread?
●What is occurring as the dough sits (proofs) and why?
● How can we influence the proofing process?

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Kimchi: Ecosystems & Microbes (gr5-8)

Essential Questions:

● What is kimchi and how is it made?
● How does kimchi change over time as it sits?
● How can we influence the growth of microbes [LAB] in kimchi?

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Why teach science through food?

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  • Food and cooking promote inclusive opportunities to draw on student assets and facilitate community-oriented learning

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  • Food helps connect science to students’ everyday lives and the world around them

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  • Food can make science learning more accessible and approachable

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  • Food and cooking provide meaningful and safe ways to “do science” and build science practices through tinkering and student-designed investigations

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Why Bite Scized Education?

 

We believe that many educators already know the potential impact food can have. Our goal is to help by providing high-quality instructional resources and teacher training to maximize student impact.

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“I’ve always been interested and knew there was science behind food and cooking, but I didn’t know exactly what it was or how to approach it, let alone how to implement it with students.

There are so many different lessons where I say- oh my gosh- it ties into so many of my classes.”

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