For Educators

There’s No Ham in Hamburgers is stuffed full of curriculum tie-ins. To find out all the ways it can be used in the classroom, check out these guides.

Educator’s Guide Grades 3-5

Educator’s Guide Grades 6-8

Those curriculum tie-ins also make for fun, engaging, and educational author presentations. I’m scheduling author visits for the 2022-2023 school year now.

Learn more about my presentations here: Author Visit Information

Fun Food STEM

Five Simple Science Experiments on Cookie Ingredients from the American Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture.

https://www.agfoundation.org/news/5-simple-science-experiments-on-cookie-ingredients

American Chemical Society asks you to “Eat Chocolate in the Name of Science”

https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/education/students/highschool/chemistryclubs/activities/chocolate-science.html

Science News for Students offers fun “Cookie Science”

https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/collections/cookie-science

Tater Science

https://sciencing.com/fun-science-experiments-potatoes-8216496.html

American Heart Association’s “Making the Most of the Nutrition Facts Label” is a hotbed of potential math problems.

https://www.heart.org/en/healthy-living/healthy-eating/eat-smart/nutrition-basics/making-the-most-of-the-nutrition-facts-label

Density and Buoyancy experiment using a ketchup packet from American Chemistry.com.

https://blog.americanchemistry.com/2017/10/density-buoyancy-ketchup/