Food Science Activities for Middle School includes 5 units, 17 lessons with simple, step-by-step activities, worksheets with answer keys, etc. Units include food science, food production, food safety, nutrition and biotechnology. A variety of lesson types keep interest high, with hands-on experiments, recipes to make, research to be conducted online and in books, and a variety of in-class presentations by students as well as the instructor. Labs include: Enzymatic Browning, Protein Coagulation, Sugar to Starch, How Does Bread Rise (Pizza lab), Hand washing experiement, and more. **Written with a National Science Foundation grant by Minneapolis Public Schools. **
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