# How to teach kids science through cooking

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDxSanFrancisco
- Speaker: Ashwini Bhandiwad
- Year: 2018
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Teaching and learning
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/ashwini_bhandiwad_how_to_teach_kids_science_through_cooking)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

The easiest way to alienate young STEM students is to reduce scientific concepts to dry equations and bullet points on the pages of a textbook. Scientist and educator Ashwini Bhandiwad explains how cooking can teach children actionable lessons about scientific principles, allowing them to learn (and to fail) in an engaging, low stakes environment.

## Lectures

1. [How to teach kids science through cooking](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/ashwini_bhandiwad_how_to_teach_kids_science_through_cooking/940e0fc928d7), 15 min (TED's player)