🧪 Part 1: States of Matter in Cooking

1. Match each cooking example with the correct state of matter:

Ice cubes in a drink: ________________

Boiling water for pasta: ________________

Steam from a hot pie: ________________

Melted butter: ________________

2. When you heat water to 100°C, what happens?

It freezes into ice

It boils and turns into steam (gas)

It stays exactly the same

It turns into a solid

3. Which of these are examples of liquids in cooking? (Tick all that apply)

Milk

Flour

Cooking oil

Ice cream

Honey

⚗️ Part 2: Physical vs Chemical Changes

4. Is melting chocolate a physical change or chemical change? Circle your answer and explain why.

Physical Change Chemical Change

5. Sort these cooking examples into the correct column:

Examples: Baking a cake, Melting butter, Frying an egg, Freezing juice into ice blocks, Toasting bread

Physical Changes

Chemical Changes

6. When you bake bread, the dough changes colour and texture. Is this reversible or irreversible?

Reversible - you can change it back

Irreversible - you cannot change it back

🍳 Part 3: Cooking Science Observations

7. Think about making scrambled eggs. Describe what happens to the egg when it's heated in the pan.

8. Draw and label a cooking process that shows both a physical change AND a chemical change happening. (Example: making toast with butter)

9. Complete this sentence: Cooking is like chemistry because ________________________

Cooking Chemistry Explorations

Cooking Chemistry Explorations

🧪 Part 1: States of Matter in Cooking

⚗️ Part 2: Physical vs Chemical Changes

Physical Changes

Chemical Changes

🍳 Part 3: Cooking Science Observations

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