Science Base Cooking R-evolution-molecule-R

At PrepaTec Morelia High School, organic chemistry is taught in the fourth semester, five days a week in 50-minute sessions, this includes an experimental laboratory one every two weeks. In the January-May 2022 semester, with 79 students distributed in 4 groups, the Kitchen-Based Science activity R-evolution-molecule-R was designed to promote interest and develop scientific skills in high school students. In this project, students in teams of 3 and 4 members made a molecular cuisine recipe using different technological tools such as liquid nitrogen loads, smoker hoods, freeze-dryers, among others, to understand and appreciate different chemical phenomena that occur while we cook and that they happen in our day to day. At the end, the students recorded a video explaining how they carried out the recipe and presenting the conclusions and explanation of the chemical phenomena observed. At the end of the activity, the results of the satisfaction survey with 5-point Likert scale where 5 is very satisfactory and 1 unsatisfactory a scores of 4.34 was obtained with a standard deviation of 0.97, the students seem to be more motivated to follow a kitchen recipe than a laboratory march, resulting in a product that is edible.