How can cooking relate to learning STEM for preschool children? Especially in this pandemic time that required all children to stay at home and learned virtually. There is a growing need to develop learning module that can easily be conducted by parents. The best solution is that making the kitchen a virtual laboratory for exploring all sorts of STEM topics outlined in the National Preschool Standards-Based Curriculum. Preparing food is a daily part of life, which means that the learning occurs in a natural, meaningful context with delicious results. Thus, by converting the kitchen into a virtual lab the parents can get learning materials that readily at their own home. These readily available materials and apparatus will be used in experimenting, taking measurements, learning about patterns, classifying, and observing cause and effect, etc.

Authors:
Dr. Nur Suhaidah Sukor, Dr. Connie Cassy Ompok, Dr. Musirin Bin Mosin
Faculty of Psychology & Education, Universiti Malaysia Sabah

Puan Masalinah Jamri 
SK Rampayan, Menggatal, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah