Cabbage Patch Chemistry

In this Activity, students investigate the fermentation process by making sauerkraut and test the effect of changing one variable in the sauerkraut-making process. The Activity involves students for an entire month, the length of the fermentation process. The Activity could tie into home economics (food preparation), history (the use of fermentation to preserve produce), or biology (fermentation, lactic acid cycles, and plant cell morphology) classes.