Say Cheese!

Talk about old cheese: there is evidence that cheese was made 7500 years ago! Cheese is great to eat by itself and in combination with so many other foods. No wonder we smile when we say “cheese.”

CONNECT:

Discover over a thousand kinds of cheese – by country, texture, and color – at http://www.cheese.com/

Find the facts about cheese at http://wiki.kidzsearch.com/wiki/Cheese

Read about the history of cheese: http://www.gourmetcheesedetective.com/History-of-Cheese.html

How is cheese made? Watch the video to find out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVVpjVk4Gy8

The science of cheese is weirder than you think: https://www.wired.com/2014/03/everythingyoudidntknowyouwantedtoknow-about-the-science-of-cheese/

CREATE:

It’s time for kids to cook; start with baked mac and cheese, and get good tips for cooking with kids: https://www.babble.com/best-recipes/kid-made-recipes-baked-mac-and-cheese/

Make your own cheese by viewing the photos and directions at http://whileshenaps.com/2015/06/summer-activity-with-kids-making-cheese-at-home.html

Play Cheese Quest at http://www.coolmath-games.com/0-cheese-quest

Play the Cheese Touch game, form the Wimpy Kid Club: https://www.wimpykidclub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/cheese_touch_game.pdf

CARE:

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. See why – and see how cheese can be part of that meal: http://kidshealth.org/en/kids/breakfast.html

Learn how to read food labels at https://www.choosemyplate.gov/budget-food-label and https://www.fda.gov/food/ingredientspackaginglabeling/labelingnutrition/ucm274593.htm. Then compare cheese food, processed cheese and natural cheese.

How do you keep cheese from molding? Find out at http://www.thekitchn.com/how-to-store-cheese-what-to-do-100285

CAREERS:

Do cheese-related careers make you smile? You can make money manufacturing cheese, selling it, cooking with it – as well as raising animals whose milk can be made into cheese.

http://www.backwoodshome.com/finding-buying-milking-and-living-with-the-family-milk-cow/

http://careers.stateuniversity.com/pages/7/Cheese-Industry-Worker.html

https://www.thebalance.com/culinary-careers-525994