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Gets Ready, Set, Dough

From The Magic School Bus · 1994

Gets Ready, Set, Dough
26 min2nd3rd4th5thScience
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Summary

A trip to the bakery for the Friz's birthday cake becomes a lesson in kitchen chemistry. The class sees how mixing and heating ingredients changes them into something new.

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Discussion questions

Discussion

A trip to the bakery for the Friz's birthday cake becomes a lesson in kitchen chemistry.

  1. What happens to batter when it's baked?
  2. Is mixing flour and water a change you can undo?
  3. Why do bakers measure ingredients so carefully?

Quick work-a-long

Vocabulary: chemistry, mixture, change.

Try it: Name two kitchen changes you can reverse and two you cannot, with a reason.