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The Healthy Body Cookbook has four easy-to-digest sections.


• Discovering the Kitchen introduces young readers to the tools of the trade; cooking skills (cutting, measuring, mixing, and more); and safety rules for using the stove, the microwave, and knives.
• Your Amazing Body introduces recipes for developing healthy hearts, muscles, bones, teeth, hair, and more. The authors provide a hands-on science activity to introduce each section, along with three or four recipes. Each recipe has detailed instructions that kids can follow, and each is coded according to difficulty. (One chef's hat indicates an "easy" recipe and three hats indicate a recipe for a "pro.")
• Staying Healthy provides recipes related to the food guide pyramid, maintaining a healthy weight, and fighting disease with foods.
• Appendices explore the nutrient contents of the recipes provided, reading food labels, and food poisoning. A glossary pulls it all together.

Provide each child with a cup of red and black licorice bits. Ask: If each piece of red licorice is worth 5 points and each piece of black licorice is worth 3 points, how much is your cup of licorice worth? (Math skill: Addition.)

We have four dozen doughnut holes to share in class. If each student, the teacher, and the principal eat one, how many doughnut holes will be left over? (Math skill: Subtraction.)

Provide each child with 12 jellybeans. Have children sort the jellybeans by color and draw a picture of the results. Ask: What fraction represents the color with the most jellybeans? (Math skill: Fractions.)

Provide each student with a box of raisins. Ask kids to estimate the number of raisins in the box before they open the boxes and after opening the boxes and counting only the top layer. Then have kids dump out the raisins and count them. Ask : How close were your estimates to the actual count? (Math skill: Estimation.)http://www.educationworld.com/a_books/books127.shtml