Social Studies in Cooking

Sharing family recipes is an opportunity to teach children about your own culture and family history.
For example, I enjoy when my mother cooks enchiladas because she tells me a short story of how her mother used to make them in Mexico. She also walks me through the ingredients and their function in Mexican Cuisine.

http://www.buzzle.com/articles/history-of-enchiladas.html

  
Not only this, but cooking is also a way of teaching children good habits for the environment. 

http://cuesa.org/node/1399

Since cooking creates a lot of waste and can be messy, let's teach children about compost, recycling, cleaning, and hygiene. 
Let's recycle! 
Also, we suggest to keep a weekly picture food diary of everything they eat at their home or school.