Eat Your Science Homework

This fantastic non-fiction resource is such a fun way to integrate science and cooking! The book has recipes such as "Atomic Popcorn Balls" and "Sedimentary Pizza Lasagna" that model scientific concepts with a fun activity. Each recipe takes students through a science concept, including pertinent vocabulary. The concept is thoroughly introduced in kid-friendly language and equipment and ingredients are identified. Using the scientific method, children follow the instructions to create their own models of scientific concepts.

I have always been a fan of cooking, so I really enjoyed this book because of its clever structure and the way in which information was presented. Being able to learn about science while doing something that I found incredibly entertaining would be an ideal situation for me as a child! I think that this is a great book for any upper-elementary child, though, because of the variety it has and how engaging it is. Even if you don't conduct the experiments or follow through on the recipes, the book is still fun to read!

The informational text features included in this book are particularly helpful, as they provide the reader with a lot of information that would otherwise be difficult to point out. By bolding important vocabulary, including a glossary of those terms, and having several captions or informative boxes of information throughout the book made staying engaged throughout the entire book really easy.

This would be a great resource at home or at school, as many of the experiments included would be great modeling tools during an science lesson! As part of the author's series, there is another book named Eat Your Math Homework that I'd love to check out to see how they approach the subject of math differently.

Eat Your Science Homework
By: Ann McCallum
Illustrated by: Leeza Hernandez
Published in 2014