Innholdsfortegnelse for September 2024 i Ask Science and Arts Magazine for Kids and Children

If you dare, you can give your family a delightful breakfast surprise, with a little help from a cabbage. What you’ll need • Some red cabbage, grated • Hot water or microwave • Eggs • 2 bowls • Pan for frying eggs • Grown-up accomplice • Brave family What to do First, make a little red cabbage juice. Ask a grown-up to help with the grating and boiling (and maybe the egg frying). 1. Grate some red cabbage (or get some from a salad bar)—about a cupful. 2. Put the grated cabbage in a bowl. Pour boiling water over it, or heat in the microwave. 3. Let it cool, then strain out the cabbage pieces. Save the red water in a jar. Now you have red cabbage juice! Time for…

Where do you buy the bugs you eat? You can buy crickets, mealworms, or wax worms at a pet store. They’re good to experiment with because they’ve been raised to be eaten by lizards or other pets and they’re available year-round. You do lots of bug-cooking demonstrations at schools and museums. Once people try bugs, do they like them? I serve everyone small portions of crickets in pasta, and I’ve had people come back for fifth and sixth helpings. One kid said, “It’s way better than anything my mom makes!” What was the first bug you ever ate? A long time ago I went to a bug fair in Seattle, and at it they were serving Chex Mix with crickets. I’ve eaten all sorts of unusual items, so it didn’t…

Plush’s PERFECT PROJECTS What you’ll need • Pizza dough • Pizza sauce • Shredded cheese • Pepperoni, black olives, green peppers, or whatever toppings you like • Adult helper What to do 1. Ask an adult to preheat the oven to 400°F (204°C). (If using store-bought refrigerated dough, use the temperature on the package.) 2. Have an adult help cut the toppings into circles to make the spiders’ body parts and thin pieces for their legs. 3. Use a round cookie cutter to cut pizza dough circles. For a larger mini pizza, stretch the dough with your fingers until it’s the size you want. 4. Put the pizza dough circles on a nonstick cookie sheet. 5. Add a layer of pizza sauce. 6. Add a layer of cheese on top…

Like any good science experiment, cookies start with collecting all the ingredients and measuring them carefully. Let’s meet the cast of your future cookies. Baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) or baking powder (which is baking soda plus a little acid) will help your cookies rise. Butter is fat from milk. It keeps your cookies moist and makes other flavors tastier. And don’t forget the most important part! First is flour, the ground-up seeds of the wheat plant. It gives your cookies body—kind of like the stuffing in your mattress. Without it, there’d be nothing to bite into. Eggs are also very important for your cookies. As they cook, the mixed-in eggs hold your cookies together in a firm shape. What would cookies be without sugar? Weird crackers! Sugar is made from…

Are you tired of the same boring old cheese in flat orange squares or powdered in a can? If so, you’re in luck—the world is full of wonderful, tasty cheeses. That’s what Lydi and Earl discovered one day last summer when they came to our farm to help us make cheese straight from the goat. So how do you turn plain old milk into tasty, chunky cheese? It takes patience, heat, and some friendly bacteria. Move Over, Miss Muffet All cheese starts with milk. You can make cheese from any kind of milk—cow’s milk, goat’s milk, sheep’s milk, even water buffalo’s milk. Cheese is the solid fats and proteins from the milk with the liquid part drained away. The next ingredient in cheese is bacteria. While you don’t want harmful…

You’ve been standing for hours at choir practice. The room is hot and stuffy. Suddenly you feel lightheaded. Your hands get cold. Then everything goes blank. You hit the floor with a thud. A few minutes later, you wake up. Everyone is staring at you. What happened? Hey Bug! Julien K., in DC, asks, “Why do people faint? Do animals faint?” You fainted! Fainting happens when your blood pressure drops for a moment and your brain doesn’t get quite enough blood. This causes you to lose consciousness, or pass out. But as soon as you’re lying down, more blood rushes to your brain and you wake up again. Panic, heat, standing still for a long time, and skipping meals can all cause fainting. Fainting can be scary, but it’s not…

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To those of us who’ve never crunched a cricket or slurped a worm, the idea of eating bugs might sound pretty gross. We wouldn’t eat those creepy-crawlies even if someone dared us! Yet lots of bugs are nutritious, tasty, and perfectly safe to eat. Are we missing out on a good thing? In fact, in Australia, South America, Africa, and Asia, eating bugs is no joke. Bugs aren’t just pests. They’re lunch or dinner or a nice after-school snack. Eat Up! We’re Outnumbered Eating bugs is an old habit. Over 10,000 years ago, before our ancestors learned to farm, they found food by hunting and gathering. Bugs were considered part of the daily diet. It made sense for ancient people to eat a source of nutrition that was right under…