STEM Super Science : Science, Technology, Engineering and Math in the Kitchen!

Kristin
Kristin

The kitchen is the perfect classroom, especially for Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) learning experiences.  Counting, chemistry, coding skills are all necessary for completing a recipe, and the best part is that you can eat your homework! From searching for ingredients to step-by-step instructions kids learn so much from cooking. These books are packed with STEM activities and inspiration you can implement in your errands to the store or afternoon lunch preparations. Pack your science lessons into meal times!

These book suggestions below contain food trivia and history, taking you on a journey to learn about what we eat. Try some recipes from these kid friendly cookbooks reviewed and taste tested by our staff’s families. Cooks are scientists and work hard to perfect their art. Try out some of these recipes, and get inspiration from some world famous chefs. Hope your science homework is fun and tasty!

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Amy Wu and the Perfect Bao

Amy Wu and the Perfect Bao

Kat Zhang

Amy is determined to make a perfect dumpling like her parents and grandmother do, but hers are always too empty, too full, or not pinched together properly.

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Awesome Edible Kids Crafts

Awesome Edible Kids Crafts

75 Super-fun All-natural Projects for Kids to Make and Eat

Arena Blake

Collection of 75 exciting crafts that are made out of kids’ favorite things to eat. Each project has a difficulty rating and whether a grownup is needed to help.

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Chef Gino's Taste Test Challenge

Chef Gino’s Taste Test Challenge

100+ Winning Recipes That Any Kid Can Cook

Gino Campagna

Chef Gino Campagna shows kids that you don t have to be a culinary expert (or a grown-up) to make delicious and nutritious meals.

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Chef Roy Choi and the Street Food Remix

Chef Roy Choi and the Street Food Remix

Jacqueline Briggs Martin

Describes the popular street cook’s life, including working in his family’s restaurant as a child, figuring out what he wanted to do with his life, and his success with his food truck and restaurant.

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The Complete Baking Book for Young Chefs

The Complete Baking Book for Young Chefs

America’s Test Kitchen

Get the gold standard of recipe testing … for kids! America’s Test Kitchen has done the work to make sure these recipes are delicious and easy to understand for bakers big and small, of all skill levels.

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The Complete Cookbook for Young Chefs

The Complete Cookbook for Young Chefs

America’s Test Kitchen

America’s Test Kitchen brings their expertise to aspiring foodies with this cookbook designed for kids in the kitchen.

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Freedom Soup

Freedom Soup

Tami Charles

Every year, Haitians all over the world ring in the new year by eating a special soup, a tradition dating back to the Haitian Revolution. This year, Ti Gran is teaching Belle how to make the soup — Freedom Soup — just like she was taught when she was a little girl. Together, they dance and clap as they prepare the holiday feast, and Ti Gran tells Belle about the history of the soup, the history of Belle’s family, and the history of Haiti, where Belle’s family is from.

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Grandma's Tiny House

Grandma’s Tiny House

A Counting Story!

JaNay Brown-Wood

In rhyming text, when the whole family and guests show up for the big dinner at Grandma’s house, it becomes clear that the house is much too small to hold them all.

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Grow! Raise! Catch!

Grow! Raise! Catch!

How We Get Our Food

Shelley Rotner

Discusses the people who grow the produce, raise the farm animals, and catch the fish that the rest of the world eats. Includes glossary.

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Magic Ramen

Magic Ramen

The Story of Momofuku Ando

Andrea Wang

Inspiration struck when Momofuku Ando spotted the long lines for a simple bowl of ramen following World War II in Japan. This picture book biography tells the true story behind the creation of one of the world’s most popular foods.

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Our Food

Our Food

A Healthy Serving of Science and Poems

Grace Lin

Introduces the five food groups and the benefits of nutritional eating.

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¡Vamos! Let's Go to the Market

¡Vamos! Let’s Go to the Market

Raúl the Third

Little Lobo, a Mexican American, and Bernabe, his dog, deliver supplies to vendors at the Mercado, a busy border town market.

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