2/11/15

Tonight's homework is to complete Part 1 of Assignment 34.

Assignment #34 How Is Our Food Made? – Investigating the Origins of Common Foods

Introduction

Why is orange juice available all throughout the year (even oranges don’t grow year round)? How is cheese made? From what part of a pig do we get bacon? In many cases, we don’t know very much about the foods we commonly eat. Today and tomorrow (and throughout this unit), we will try to reverse that trend and start to investigate and better understand the origins of our favorite foods.

Procedure – Part 1

1. Review the choices and briefly discuss with your group who is going to investigate the production of each of the following foods – bread, orange juice, cheese, bacon, and mayonnaise.

2. Listen for further instructions about where students will be grouped to investigate each food.

3. Use the laptops to read, watch, learn, and record notes about the production of your assigned food. Some ideas for organizing your notetaking:

a. What are the ingredients contained in your food?

b. What kind(s) of processes are used to create your food from its ingredients? Briefly describe what occurred during each major step.

c. What new vocabulary did you learn in your investigation?

d. What interesting facts (ex. statistics) should the rest of your group know about your food/its production?

4. Prepare a very brief visual aid (ex. Prezi, Powerpoint, handout, small poster/chart) to teach the rest of your (original, normal) group about how your food is produced.

Part 2

5a. Present and teach your group about how your food was produced.

5b. Take notes while listening to other group members’ presentations.

Reflection

Answer each of the following questions to the best of your ability in complete sentences.

1. What is your reaction upon learning a bit more about where your food comes from and how it is produced?

2. What did the production of all of these foods seem to have in common? Which factors were unique for each food?

3. What lingering questions do you have about the origins and production of food?
Helpful Videos?

Swiss cheese and Goat cheese
Bacon
Orange juice
Bread
Mayonnaise