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Design and make a product using local and/or organic ingredients.

What was the last thing you had to eat? Where did it come from? How was it grown? How was it packaged?

Every day in the UK, we consume huge amounts of food that:

In this unit you will:

gain knowledge and understanding of the design and make process

understand who you are designing for by creating a customer profile

design and label a range of products write a design specification produce a step-by-step plan for making your product make a quality product. add 10 keywords to your vocabulary

Nutrition    Disassemble    Equipment    Product    Mass    Protein   Weigh    Healthy    Carbohydrates HACCP (hazard analysis and critical control)   

• has travelled thousands of miles to reach our shop shelves• has been treated with a range of chemicals, including pesticides, artificial fertilisers, antibiotics and other drugs.• has been packaged in loads of plastic, tinfoil etc.

So what’s the problem?• Transporting food around the world is using up precious fuel, causing pollution and making our climate change. The chemicals

that many farmers use are polluting our water and soil, and can damage our health. The packaging used is non-biodegradable and ends up in landfill sites.

• As a result, more and more people are now looking for food made using organic, locally grown ingredients.

Go to the Learning Context page at http://www.stepin.org/index.php?id=fft_learning and look at the Did you know? facts. Follow the links and collect your own fascinating facts about organic and local food and write them down here.

Go to the Research page at ((need specific address for this part of the site)) and read the case studies about Yeo Valley yoghurts and organic baby food and the information about organic food and buying locally grown food.

Using words and pictures create a ‘mood board’ within the cogs to illustrate the theme of local and organic food.

1. What type of food product is it, what ingredients does it contain and where does it come from?

4. Draw your product. How much does it weigh? What does it taste like?

5. Separate the food product into its component parts. Taste each ‘component’ and write down words to describe the different tastes.

2. What type of person do you think would buy and eat this product?

3. Has it been processed? How? What equipment was needed to make it?

Choose an organic food product and answer the following questions by filling in the boxes.

Choose a local food product and answer the following questions by filling in the boxes.

1. What type of food product is it, what ingredients does it contain and where does it come from?

4. Draw your product. How much does it weigh? What does it taste like?

5. Separate the food product into its component parts. Taste each ‘component’ and write down words to describe the different tastes.

2. What type of person do you think would buy and eat this product?

3. Has it been processed? How? What equipment was needed to make it?

I want my new food product to:

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Who is going to buy and eat your product? What do they like? What don’t they like? Write, draw and stick pictures here to show the type of customer you are designing for:

Go out and do a survey. Ask some possible customers what they would like etc. Add their comments into the speech bubbles below:

How can you combine your ingredients to make your product? Write, draw and stick examples here to show the different processing and cooking methods you could use.

Using your research, specification and customer profile, draw at least FIVE different design ideas for products made using organic and local ingredients. Remember to consider the sustainability of your product. Label your drawings and explain any changes that you decide to make to your design. You can start your ideas on this page and continue on the following page(s)

Remember to evaluate your work as it develops. Ask yourself;1. Which is your favourite design and why?2. How could you improve it?3. List at least three pieces of equipment you would use to make it.4. What other features can you comment on?

“Fresh organic food contains around 50 per cent more vitamins, minerals, enzymes

and other micro-nutrients than food that has been intensively farmed.”

Look at your specifications and your design ideas to select the most appropriate design. Draw your final design here.

Draw and write a step-by-step plan for making your product.

Fill in the chart below to show what equipment you are going to use to make your product. How do you plan to use each piece of equipment?

Personal evaluationOverall, how do you think you tackled this project? What were your strengths and weaknesses? What did you enjoy most? What did you find easy? What was difficult? Try to be as detailed as possible.

Design workIdentify two faults with your design work and suggest improvements you could make.

1) Fault:

Improvement:

2) Fault:

Improvement:

Practical workIdentify two faults with your practical work and suggest improvements you could make.

1) Fault:

Improvement:

2) Fault:

Improvement:

How could you have improved your work on this project? Try to think about the way you worked, rather than about your final product.

Now it is time to judge the quality of your final product using your design specification. In the table below, fill in what you said you wanted your product to do (your specification) and then say how well your final product does each of these things.

I wanted my product to: How well does it do this?

Assessment

Effort level:

Designing and making level:

My targets for the next project are:

Exploring existing ideas Product specification Exploring ideas Developing & modelling ideas

Generating design ideas Final design Planning Evaluation