Abstract
The attitude of the fifth and sixth graders toward learning cooking was investigated, according to opinions expressed toward difficulty of tasks. Teaching materials were boiling egg, frying greens in oil, boiling rice, miso soup, frying egg and boiling potato.
The results were :
1. The pupils found more difficulty in cutting with a knife, turning on the gas, adjusting it and in measuring with a spoon. They found more ease in turning off the gas and in measuring the whole quantity of food with a dial scale.
2. When the attitude of the fifth graders was compared with that of the sixth graders, the former found more difficulty. The degrees of difficulty with both graders were below the average. Concerning boiling rice and miso soup, boys found more difficulty than girls did.
