Food Science: Make your own course!

One way to boost interest in science is to offer electives.  I think teens should take Biology and Chemistry.  My husband, Rob, teaches Physics; not every student has the math background to tackle Physics.  One elective is Food Science.  Purdue offers this epub, Food Chemistry: Experiments for Labs and Kitchens.  I checked several links in the document; they work.  Here is Purdue’s statement allowing anyone to access this lab manual.  Here, here, and here are even more experiments and guides.  Chemmatters has articles about Food Chemistry, such as 3-D Printed Food. Here is an Open Textbook, Chemistry of Cooking.  You and your teen can plan the elective.  It doesn’t need to run a full school-year.  Plan a mini-course for eight weeks.  Start with the labs and the determine which readings, textbooks, or articles dove-tail with the labs. Where do your teen’s interests lie?  Which experiments can be performed in the kitchen?   Start here with Coffee in the Classroom.  Reddit has a few ideas for coffee experiments here.  Here, here, and here, and here  are Chemmatters resources.  Have a blast!  Planning is fun!