Modifying and Improving Your Product

We're experts at making ice cream now! We're improving our ice cream based on our market research.

 Team work!

 More Kiwifruit

More Pineapple Lumps

Market Research - Technology

 The next step of the technological process is "Review". We created questions and ways to collect responses to find out what a selection of kids and adults thought of our ice creams. This will help us decide how we need to improve our ice cream.

 Mr Weirsma testing the black pepper and pineapple lump ice cream.

 Other taste testers of the lycee and manuka honey.

Dividing the taste test samples up.

Technology

Last term, we researched countries that participated in the London Olympics 2012 and then produced brochures about these countries (see earlier post). As a follow on, we have now been given a problem we need to solve relating to the culture we researched. This comes under the subject "Technology" and we will follow the design process which consists of 'design, plan, create, review, modify and evaluate'.  This is going to be really exciting!!! Watch this space for photographs of our learning!


Here is the problem we need to solve:

Problem:

In New Zealand, we are lucky enough to have a large number of immigrants from a variety of cultures.

Many find it difficult fitting into our culture and can suffer from loneliness.

Need:

We need to develop an ice cream for a group of immigrants that combines aspects of their culture with the New Zealand culture. The ice cream needs to developed, produced and packaged. You must produce an ice cream combining  flavours of your chosen culture and the New Zealand culture.

VIEW the Technology & Design  page on the right, for ideas about Kiwi culture and flavours, ice cream packaging, as well as lots of games and information on food safety!

 First, we made the base recipe.

 We whipped egg whites an.d sugar until they formed stiff peaks

 We beat egg yolks and sugar until they became thick and pale.

 We whipped cream.

 We combined the three mixtures.

 And folded them together. We halved the base recipe and added our own flavours.

 Jiayi and Anusha. Immigrant culture = China. NZ and Chinese flavours: lycee and manuka honey.

 George, Georgie & Sara.  Immigrant culture = Jamaica. NZ and Jamaican flavours: coconut, mango and apple.

 Mixing and folding.

Discussion.

 Jason cutting up pineapple lumps.

 Scott slicing kiwifruit.

 Jason beating egg whites until they form 'stiff peaks'.

 Busy creating!

 Caitlin slicing meringues.

 Getting ready to freeze their ice cream.

Jason adding egg yolks to egg whites.

 Harry and Ethan sharing the job of beating.

 Make sure you get all of the mixture Jessie!

 Danbie adding Manuka honey.

Groups, Immigrant cultures and flavours and
New Zealand flavours

Ethan, Danbie, Jessie
USA - Coconut and Manuka Honey

Holly, Jessie, Harry
Nigeria - Black pepper and Pineapple Lumps

Sara, Georgie, George
Jamaica - Mango and Apple

Boris, Raymond, Levi
Germany - Lemon, Cinnamon and Pineapple Lumps

Tama, John, Hannah
Italy - Mixed berries and kiwi fruit

Andrew, Caitlin, Caitlin
France - Chocolate mousse and pavlova

Anusha, Jiayi
China - Lycee and Manuka Honey

Scott, Jason, Jason
South Africa - Blueberries and kiwi fruit


The next step: to do some market research by testing their ice cream flavours on a variety of people.

Will they need to modify their ice cream? And, how?....

Stay tuned!

Tennis

This week Gareth and Ian from the Burnside Tennis Club have been teaching us tennis skills. So far we have learnt how to hit forehand and backhand. Today, we've been learning how to serve the ball. A fun week learning and practising tennis skills was had by all.

 

 

Pastel People

We are doing art called "Pastel People". This artwork is building on the skills of blending we learnt last term when painting our butterflies. This term we are using a different medium which is pastel.

Children had one of two themes to base their artwork on - sport or family.

Some of the skills we have been learning are:

- using sketching techniques
- drawing human figures consisting of geometric shapes depicting movement
- understanding, explaining and using correctly, cool colours and warm colours
- using blending and shading to create movement
- using white to show where the light is hitting

Diamond Gymnastics - Jiayi

Serene Spotlight Stealers - Anusha

Radient Summer - Georgie

Future Gold Medalist - Caitlin Br

Subtle blending that isn't stripy

Family Love - Jessie F

Family Of Joy - Caitlin Brac

Skating At Twilight - Danbie

Flaming Soccer Player - Raymond

Ninja Thrust Kick - Levi

Amnythest Versus Emerald - Boris

Super Surfer - Holly

Star Player - Scott

Destroyer of Tae-kwon-do - Andrew

Elegant Ballerina - Jessie O

2012 Soccer Olympics - John

Basketball Shooter - Jason C

Silver Snowflake - Hannah