Cooking

Carrie Winiecki and Ana Chang

Herb and Spices
URL:http://www.teleport.com/~ronl/herbs.html

This page is by Ron E. Lunde. This page lists herbs and spices, recipes, sources, ideas for growing your own, history, geography, references. From this page you can double click on any highlighted word and find more information on these topics.

You may use this if you intend to do a food theme where students or even adults can find topics of their choice under herb and spices. Activities can range from reporting or even bringing the actual items to class where you can integrate reading and writing with the items found. Group work can involve students in verbal interaction that will help language learning.

 

Yahoo-Entertainment:Food:cooking:Ethnic
URL: http://www.yahoo.com/Entertainment/Food/Cooking/Ethnic/

This page consists of ethnic foods and recipes such as Cajun, Chinese, German, Greek and many more. Just double click on any topic you find interesting and it will show recipes for these certain dishes.

A potential language learning use is when students find the different ingredients used in each dish. Have students write or draw something each dish has in common. You may even have them list some things they have not seen or heard of before, this way students have the opportunity to learn a new word or item as well as utilize the language they are learning.

 

Medieval/Renaissance Food Homepage.
URL: http://fermi.clas.virginia.edu/~gl8f/food.html

This home page has a list of references, a bibliography, articles, and individual recipes that can give you access to more details on all the items displayed on the page. Also, it lists other information that might be of interest to you.

Because this page has a reference and bibliography list. You can have students find the books or texts and have them check it out. Although the students may find the print a bit more complicated, encourage them to look through it and if they have any questions or comments on anything, a group of two can be paired to work one on one and identify anything that may be unclear to them.

 

The FAT FREE Recipe Collection
URL: http://www.fatfree.com/recipes.cgi

This two page fat free collection of recipes are categorized by way of: specific dishes, regional dishes, specific foods, breads, salads, soups, desserts and condiments. You will find recipes for low fat and nutritious foods under each category.

If nutrition and eating healthy is a part of a lesson, you may use this to incorporate and find low fat recipes to introduce to your class, as well as cook them. This will engage students in group participation and the use of everyday speaking. It will also help them develop social speaking skills as well as practice reading and writing recipes.

 

Ridiculously Easy Recipes
URL: http://www.sar.usf.edu/~zazuetaa/recipe.html

This is five pages of ridiculously easy recipes, which includes titles and names of each recipe. It also includes preparation time, the servings, what equipment will be used, ingredients (materials), as well a brief description of what the dish is.

Because these require a minimal amount of materials and are easy to cook or put together, you can have younger children cook these dishes themselves with the someone supervising. Explaining and dividing students into smaller groups will help them utilize the language they are learning. If each student is assigned to a certain task, no one would be left out and it would also give them the opportunity to engage in conversation with one another.

 

Netscape:form3.html
URL: http://health.mirical.com/site/form3.html/

This page has a form that students can fill in and then receive a personalized nutritional profile. The form asks the user a series of questions such as: age, height, weight, gender, activity level and profile. For activity and profile, the computer gives the user a series of choices. Based on the responses to these questions, the user is given the optimum amount of food and nutrients that s/he should be consuming.

This page could be very beneficial to teenage and adult students, especially when conducting a lesson pertaining to nutrition. Vocabulary can be learned and practiced with weight and measurement related computations. Students can also learn about the different food groups and can practice creating nutritionally balanced meals.

 

Hungerweb:Managers and Field Workers Entry Point
URL: http://netspace.org/hungerweb/HW/managers.html

This page presents the user with a number of different hunger related organizations. By clicking on one of the listed organizations, one can learn more about a specific organization’s aim and how to become involved in the organization.

This page could be used to help students access information pertaining to world hunger, including statistics and current hunger crisis’s around the globe. One could design a scavenger hunt where students use this page to answer specific questions. Thus, vocabulary, knowledge about world hunger, and computer use could be learned. In addition, this page could be used as a starting point for obtaining information for written research reports or oral presentations.

 

Netscape:GIG image 365×257 pixels
URL: http://mls.saic.com/coffee/window/.gif

This page is full of detailed pictures depicting the general construction of a coffee house. By clicking on a series of four different steps, students can see how an empty building becomes a thriving business in a step-by-step process.

This page could be used as an introduction to a project where students create their own small-scale businesses. It could also be used to teach order and sequence. Lastly, one might use this page to teach vocabulary relevant to both construction and business.

 

Yahoo-Business:Corporations:Food
URL: http://www.yahoo.com/Business/Corporations/Food/

This page lists food corporations according to different sub-categories such as: chocolate, fish, fruit, nuts, water, coffee and tea, and popcorn. This page gives information about the products produced by specific corporations such as the Atlanta Chile Company. It also gives the user information pertaining to where products can be found and how they are made.

This page can teach students “food” vocabulary. It can also help them learn about geography by locating the site of a particular company/corporation. Students could practice designing questions for one another based on this page and then trade their questions with other students.

 

Netscape:Tipping
URL: http://www.cpmc.columbia.edu/homepages/gonzalu/tipping.html

This page contains a series of graphs that depict specific locations, such as a restaurant, and tells the user the appropriate amount to tip each person at the location. Again, using the restaurant as an example, one would look to the next column labeled “person.” The people listed in the restaurant location are: waiter, wine steward, bartender, busboy, restroom attendant, and coat check attendant. One can look across from the person to the “amount” column and find out the appropriate amount to tip.

This page can teach older students about tipping customs in the United States. Also this page can be used to teach mathematical concepts such as multiplication and percentage.