Posted on February 24, 2010.
Children food security to homeschool When it comes to cooking, there are not many children who at one time or another are not curious to know what happens in the kitchen. It is not at all uncommon for a boy or a girl to try their hand in the preparation of a meal or a dessert, and parents must be very encouraging in this regard that how food is an art of life that children always use. It's also a good time to talk to them about food safety at home.
The great thing about teaching about food security is that you can work in many other subjects. For younger people, arouse their interest in chemistry by telling them how the surfactants, the difference in cleaning products which allows them to penetrate dirt and grease and remove the work. They try to clean the grease even clean water, then spray with your favorite cleaning. If you have a microscope (you can get them pretty cheap), taking a dirty counter and let the children see all the microscopic bugs crawling in the goo.
For older children, you can set up a biological experiment. Get plates and nutrient agar, and then swab different kitchen surfaces before and after cleaning after a meeting of great cuisine. Helping to identify the various colonies of bacteria growing in the agar solution.
Pay attention to the interests of your children and try to adapt the science of what they love. You are the best judge of what will work to get your message.
Many children will not initially want to do the dirty work of cleaning up after cooking. The kitchen cluttered with pots and pans after a session of dirty kitchen kid is one of the oldest jokes in the book, but it may be a thing of the past if you take the time to teach your children that it is cleaned, not only the polite thing to do ... practice food safety at home could also save their lives and those of their guests!