You don’t need whitebait to cook a tasty summer fritter! These recipes were created by students from Waimea Intermediate School during their MasterChef challenge. Give them a go yourself!

Create an erupting geyser with Diet Coke and Mentos, this amazing experiment is guaranteed to impress your friends!

Do egg shells really contain thousands of tiny holes? Find out with this fun science experiment for kids.

It’s Old Mac Science Guy’s “Farming” show, E-I-E-I-O.

Link to video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhKkSCxgels&list=PLC1A0KOYvlM7HWpQfsCu2z-PkwUHfn10S&index=5

The title of this topic refers to the transfer of heat energy - a phenomenon that is familiar to children as they experience the processes of warming and cooling in everyday life.

Have you ever wondered how jellybeans are made. Suzy puts her teeth to the test first :D as she bites into this investigation.

A solar oven let us use the energy from the sun to cook food. Did you know you can make a solar oven out of a pizza box? Of course, you’ll need to eat the pizza first! Watch our video to make and test your own solar oven at school or home.

This book introduces concepts about heat energy that can be illustrated by the preparation of a familiar breakfast cereal. It focuses on differences in temperature and the way in which these are used in cooking technology.

Yeast is yummy and mould is medicinal… In this unit take a closer look at how the growth and survival of these tiny organisms are dependent upon the right conditions, and how humans have harnessed them to help.

We are living in a material world, and those materials have a range of physical properties that influence their use. Investigate the properties of things we use everyday and apply understanding to investigate how materials keep things warm.

Have a contest to see who can grow the most mold!

Everyday, more and more packages are being sent around the world. In the context of design, explore the properties of materials that make them suitable for packaging, and construct a package strong enough to protect a fragile gift.

This book looks at the need for food preservation (rokiroki kai) and some of the natural, traditional, and commercial methods of preservation that people use for food storage (whakaputu).

Connor has a really cool question. "Why does cheese go green?" We don't have an episode that answers that question specifically but we do have an episode of Suzy's World that looks at why we need to put food in the refrigerator. So, tada! Here it is!

It's safe to say that food looks and tastes a lot better when it's fresh or preserved properly. Teach kids about how mold, fungi and bacteria affect food while they investigate further with a fun mold activity.

To identify how electricity is used at home, and how it is transformed
into other forms of energy.

Everyday materials can be changed in a variety of ways, and what’s more ‘everyday’ than food? Explore how heating and cooling creates physical changes to the observable properties of food.