Use Your Noodle!

Noodles come in many shapes and sizes, and have been found around the world found thousands of years. Use your noodle exploring about noodles.

CONNECT:

• Cavatelli?Malloreddus?  Gigli? See and read the vocabulary of noodle shapes at http://www.foodsubs.com/PastaShapes.html
• Take a virtual trip around the world looking for noodles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5H_oHVm3WC0
• Want to eat a 4000 year old noodle? Read how archeologists found those ancient noodles – and the history of noodles at http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/10/1012_051012_chinese_noodles.html
• Some people call the head or brain a “noodle.” Here’s the origin of that word: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/language-use-your-noodle-old-bean/article4381047/
• Knowing how to make a bibliography takes using your “noodle” – and you can use Noodle Tools software: http://www.noodletools.com/noodlebib/express.php

CREATE:

• Cook up a noodle dish using a recipe from http://www.delish.com/cooking/g1633/easy-noodle-recipes-kids/
• You can cook international with noodles too: http://www.parents.com/recipes/familyrecipes/dinner/international-pasta-recipes/
• You CAN play with your food with these noodle crafts: http://www.parents.com/fun/arts-crafts/kid/pasta-crafts/
• Here’s food for thought: poems about food, including noodles, written by kids. Trying writing your own: http://poetryzone.woodshed.co.uk/foodcomp.htm

CARE:

• Is chicken noodle soup really a medicine? Find out the story at http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=117888
• Keep healthy by playing games with swimming pool “noodles”: http://www.noodlegames.net/activities.html
• Find out how instant noodles help world hunger: http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2013/08/16/212671438/ramen-to-the-rescue-how-instant-noodles-fight-global-hunger

CAREERS:

Lots of jobs use your noodle, and there are also jobs where you make noodles, such as a food manufacturer or chef. As a food critic, you could get paid for EATING food – and writing about it. Or you can combine food and your head as a food scientist.

http://www.delish.com/food/g2011/food-jobs/

http://www.bls.gov/iag/tgs/iag311.htm

http://www.bls.gov/ooh/food-preparation-and-serving/chefs-and-head-cooks.htm

http://www.bls.gov/ooh/Life-Physical-and-Social-Science/Agricultural-and-food-scientists.htm