PROTOTYPING CYCLE ONE 2017

Monday 11 September 2017 0 comments















Raspberry Coconut Mango Sorbet

Green Unit -Rooms 3 and 4

   Ingredients

    250g cubed very ripe mango
    250g fresh raspberries
     ½ cup full-fat coconut milk
     ½ cup sugar
     Pinch sea salt
      ½ tsp lime juice
             

     Method  

1.  Add all ingredients to a blender and blend on high until creamy and smooth - 2-3 minutes.
2. Taste and adjust flavor/sweetness as needed, then transfer to a mixing bowl and cover. Set over ice bath to chill.
3. Add your chilled base to the prepared ice cream churning bowl and churn according to manufacturer’s instructions until it looks like soft serve.
4. Transfer to a freezer-safe container and smooth top with a spoon. Cover securely, label and freeze.
5. Serve in ice cream cones during festival.


CYCLE TWO

Friday 28 July 2017 0 comments


TECHNOLOGISTS AT WORK


Welcome to cycle two.



TECHNOLOGICAL PRACTICE

1 Using CIB (Curriculum Inquiry Balmoral) model/technological process, year seven and eight students will explore a need or opportunity; develop, prepare and package their own technological outcomes.


TECHNOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE

1 All students will learn much about functional modelling within the context of their own practice.

2 Year seven students will describe the performance properties of a range of ingredients/materials, use them and suggest why they have been used.


NATURE OF TECHNOLOGY
Year eight students will explore how technological developments continue to impact the way we cook and eat.

Extension students will also identify the skills and knowledge required in a selected technological field.




DESIGN BRIEFS

YEAR 8

CHOOSE ONE OF THE DESIGN BRIEFS BELOW
PTA is organising “The great Balmoral spring festival” to be held in our school on the 18th of November.
The Food Technology department will like to contribute to the food stall and wants you to:


1.      Develop, prepare and package a lactose free ice cream that could be sold at the spring festival.

REQUIREMENTS FOR TASK

A.      Your product must be unique
B.      Your product must be lactose free.
C.      You cannot use cocoa or any cocoa product.
D.     Your ice cream must be packaged in a plastic container but will be sold in cones.
E.       Design a packaging label that includes the name of your product and ingredient list.

OR
2.      Develop, prepare and package sorbet that could be sold at the spring festival.

REQUIREMENTS FOR TASK

A.      Your product must be unique.
B.      You cannot use cocoa or any cocoa product and your sorbet must be lactose free.
C.      Your sorbet must be packaged in a plastic container but will be sold in plastic cups or cones.
D.     Design a packaging label that includes the name of your product and ingredient list.


      YEAR 8 HOMEWORK DUE FIRST LESSON OF WEEK 2

     Research the following and bring your findings to class.

1        Types of lactose free milk and highlight those that are available in New Zealand.
2         Types of Ice cream cones and flavours. 
        Most common ice cream flavours 
         Fruits and vegetables that are not in season (not available) in New Zealand during winter. 
          



YEAR 7

The PTA is organising “The great Balmoral spring festival” to be held in our school on the 18th of November.
The Food Technology department will like to contribute to the food stall and wants you to develop, prepare and package biscuits or cookies that could be sold at the spring festival.

REQUIREMENTS FOR TASK

A.      Your product must be unique
B.      You cannot use cocoa or any cocoa product.
C.      You cannot use icing sugar except fondant icing for detailing or bits and pieces.
D.      The outside of your product must be dry.
E.       Design a packaging label that includes the name of your product and ingredient list.
F.       Your packaged product must contain 10 biscuits or cookies.

2017 FOOD TECHNOLOGY (HANGARAU KAI)

Sunday 26 March 2017 0 comments

Technology education in New Zealand explores how, beginning with a need or opportunity, new products and systems are developed and how technological developments impact on our world. It also aims for students (to develop “a broad technological literacy”) to gain skills, knowledge, and understanding that will enable them to thoughtfully live with, critique, and contribute to the technological developments that shape our lives.
The school year has been divided into two cycles. Terms one and two- cycle one and terms three and four will be cycle two.
CYCLE ONE
 1. Through various learning experiences offered in class, students will explore the performance properties of ingredients/materials, acquire knowledge, language and skills needed to develop their own products or systems in cycle two.

2. Students will also explore the characteristics of technological outcomes:
Year 7 students will identify and describe the links between the physical and functional attributes of a given technological outcome.
Year 8 students will describe how two technological outcomes with similar physical attributes can have different functional attributes and vice versa. In addition to this, extension students will identify and describe what is “proper function and other function” of various technological outcomes.