Every once in awhile, I manage to find a food lesson to incorporate with the material and content we are learning in Science. We've had Oreos to learn the layers of Earth as well as the Moon's phases and pudding, crushed cookies, and gummy worms to learn about the different horizons of soil.... Now students have had a chance to create an edible ANIMAL CELL with bread, peanut butter, and various toppings! Here are the different parts they learned about:
The bread/crust - Represents the cell membrane
Peanut Butter - cytoplasm (next year, I'm using jelly as cytoplasm is a jelly-like substance... why I didn't think of that right away, I don't know....:)
Cookie - Nucleus
Sprinkles - chromosomes
Life Savers - vacuoles
Skittles - Mitochondrion
Needless to say, I think this science lesson was a hit!
