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Osuolale Odunayo has created the project "Investigating Food and Energy at Home" in Class2Class.org

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Investigating Food and Energy at Home

What is this project about?

Students investigate how cooking methods like heating, freezing, and mixing change food, and compare how families in each country prepare meals. They analyze their results together during the video exchange and discuss what they found.
Age of Students
6-8 years
Project Duration
4 weeks
Starting Month
November 2026

Learning Outcomes

Students will be able to identify and describe how heating, freezing, and mixing change food, sharing their observations with partner classrooms.
Remember / Understand
Students will be able to use simple interview questions and photos to illustrate how their families prepare meals, working together with partner classmates.
Apply
Students will be able to compare and contrast meal preparation methods from their community with those of partner classrooms during the video exchange.
Analyze
Students will be able to judge which cooking method works best for a given food, explaining their reasoning respectfully to peers from other countries.
Evaluate

Skills to develop

Collaboration & Teamwork
Critical Thinking & Problem-Solving

Project Activities

1

Hello Partner Class: Meet and Start Our Food Investigation

Students meet their partner class through a short video call and learn what heating, freezing, and mixing do to food. They share one favorite meal from home to get started.

Duration: 40 minutes
2

Cooking Changes Lab and Family Meal Interviews

In small mixed groups, students test how heating, freezing, and mixing change simple foods and record what they see with photos. They also ask family members simple questions about how they prepare meals and draw or photograph one example for a shared wall display.

Duration: 120 minutes
3

Video Exchange: Compare Our Meals and Choose the Best Method

Students share their observations and family meal photos with the partner class during a live video call. Together they compare how meals are prepared in each country and discuss which cooking method works best for different foods, explaining their reasons kindly.

Duration: 50 minutes
4

Our Food and Energy Mural Showcase

Students present their collaborative mural and key findings to the partner class and reflect together on what they learned about cooking and each other's families.

Duration: 30 minutes