FUN FOOD

Explore on Your Own Properties

FunFood
by Jodi Keller

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FunFood
by Jodi Keller

Let’s have fun with food! Peel a
banana into eight strips. You are
changing its properties. Stick on
two raisins for eyes.

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It’s an

octopus!

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Cut a hard-boiled egg in half. Use
peppercorns for eyes and a nose.
Make ears from pepper slices.
Break long pasta for whiskers.

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Hello

Mr. Rabbit!

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Cut a piece of bread in half. Now
it has a new shape. Put the two
corners together. Put jam on the
bread. Line up grapes in the middle.

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Fly awabyutterfly!

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Break carrot sticks in half. Now you
have smaller pieces. Place them
around an orange slice.

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The sun is shining!

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Put four chips on a tortilla. Use
a blueberry for an eye. Cut sliced
olives in half for scales. The olives
have a slippery texture.

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Swimslippery fish!

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You changed properties of foods by
• peeling
• cutting
• breaking

You made fun food!

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Program Authors
Malcolm B. Butler, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Science Education, University of South
Florida, St. Petersburg, Florida; Judith Sweeney Lederman, Ph.D., Director of Teacher
Education and Associate Professor of Science Education, Department of Mathematics
and Science Education, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois; Randy Bell, Ph.D.,
Associate Professor of Science Education, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia;
Kathy Cabe Trundle, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Early Childhood Science Education, The
Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio; Nell K. Duke, Ed.D., Co-Director of the Literacy
Achievement Research Center and Professor of Teacher Education and Educational
Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan; David W. Moore, Ph.D.,
Professor of Education, College of Teacher Education and Leadership, Arizona State
University, Tempe, Arizona

The National Geographic Society
John M. Fahey, Jr., President & Chief Executive Officer
Gilbert M. Grosvenor, Chairman of the Board

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