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The influence of cooking in education

It is well known that cooking is one of the culinary activities most performed by people because every day people learn through this activity. Then, education is also related to this activity which leads us to deduce and give meaning to the phrase "everything you learn one day, will use in your life". This leads us to think why not involve cooking in the education of a child.
Kitchenacademy(2017) states that: "Children learn best when they are directly related to their environment, and cooking is able to teach them different skills that will allow them to face life". The kitchen is an environment where the student can develop their culinary skills, also in this type of space, the child could be related as a student, and even as a future professional with new fields and form bonds of relationship with their teachers and parents.
Cooking and Math: Thanks to the cooking, children will be able to use how units of measurement work in the kitchen. This will help them in school with the numbers and the reasoning to solve them. In other words, it will help them develop their math skills.
Cooking and History: Here children can develop their research skills by trying to find the past of a dish or the foods that compose it. In addition, it will help them to understand the contexts of other countries by trying to achieve the goal of cooking a dish or creating one.
Cooking and Science: Children will be able to understand some chemical reactions of some foods when cooked, as well as the nutritional processes and the functioning of the human body when faced with eating a dish.
Cooking and English: Here children can add new words to their vocabulary, as well as improve their grammar, reading, and writing skills by reading or following recipes from the Internet. For example in English, as long as a child stimulates and relates what he reads to the movements he makes either himself or someone else in the kitchen, this will help to transfer the content to the child's memory. It going to help to recall without forcing repetition of the language. Therefore, It is one of the activities where the child will receive reading, writing, and listening input.




Rumble Viral. (April 5,2019). 2-year-old makes fast & easy chocolate cake
[Video]. Youtube.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oUxr7149DY



Animated English. (July 20,2017). Everyday English for ESL 5 — Cookie Recipe
[Video]. Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN_4IpCgVIQ

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