FIRST LEGO LEAGUE

FIRST LEGO LEAGUE

FIRST LEGO LEAGUE WHAT’S “THE BIG IDEA?”

FIRST LEGO LEAGUE FOOD PRESERVATION AND SAFETY

FIRST LEGO LEAGUE WHAT’S “THE CHALLENGE?”

FIRST LEGO LEAGUE To investigate a food and find one way to improve its safe delivery to you.

FIRST LEGO LEAGUE • Think about food • Dairy (milk, cheese, yogurt) • Eggs (raw, cooked, dehydrated) • Fruits (Fresh, frozen, dried, canned) • Vegetables (Fresh, frozen, dried, canned • Grains (rice, pasta, bread, cereal, seeds, nuts) • Meats (fresh, canned, dried, smoked, frozen) • Seafood (fresh, canned, dried, smoked, frozen)

FIRST LEGO LEAGUE • As a team make a list of five (5) food and how each one is stored and how each one got to you • Create a chart • Show the class

FIRST LEGO LEAGUE • As a team, pick one food for your team to research for “the challenge.” • Keep is simple • Fewer than 7 ingredients • Over the next week each teammate must document your food’s “journey” from ground to table. • Identify possible contamination and spoiling problems • Answer essential questions. • Learn as much as you can about each ingredient in your food

FIRST LEGO LEAGUE • FOOD’S JOURNEY • GROUND • HARVEST • PROCESSING • DISTRIBUTION • PREPARATION • TABLE

FIRST LEGO LEAGUE • FOOD’S JOURNEY • GROUND • Was it planted? • Was it born? • Was it hatched?

FIRST LEGO LEAGUE • FOOD’S JOURNEY • HARVEST • Was it picked? • Was it milked? • Was it collected? • Was it caught? • Was it slaughtered?

FIRST LEGO LEAGUE • FOOD’S JOURNEY • PROCESSING • Was it washed? • Was it mixed with other food? • Was it cooked? • Was it frozen? • Was it preserved? • Was it packaged? • Was it inspected?

FIRST LEGO LEAGUE • FOOD’S JOURNEY • DISTRIBUTION • Did it travel? • To a warehouse? • To a market? • How did it travel? • Was it delivered to you? • Did you travel to get it?

FIRST LEGO LEAGUE • FOOD’S JOURNEY • PREPERATION • Was it washed? • Was it mixed with other food? • Was it cut? • Was it cooked? • Was it thawed?

FIRST LEGO LEAGUE • FOOD’S JOURNEY • TABLE • Where was it eaten • Home • Picnic • Party • School • Restaurant

YOUR HOMEWORK DUE NEXT MONDAY Investigate your foods “journey” and identify possible areas of contamination and/or spoiling. Bring at least one area to practice next Monday to discuss with your team. FIRST LEGO LEAGUE

FIRST LEGO LEAGUE FOOD’S JOURNEY As a team, discuss each teammates area of improvement.

FIRST LEGO LEAGUE THE CHALLENGE To investigate a food and find one way to improve its safe delivery to you.

FIRST LEGO LEAGUE SOLUTION/ACTION Once your team has identified the area you would like to focus on for improvement in your food’s journey, each teammate must come up with one idea as a solution to the problem.

SOLUTION/ACTION • Now that your team has decided on a contamination or spoiling problem, develop an innovative solution that will address the problem— • It could be a new idea or an improvement on something already being done. • What is already being done to fix your team’s problem? • What could be done? • What will it take to make your team’s solution happen? • How will your solution help protect your food? • A great solution might take all the imagination and ingenuity your team can muster. • It might seem so obvious that you wonder why the problem even exists. FIRST LEGO LEAGUE

FIRST LEGO LEAGUE SOLUTION/ACTION Choose the best (or combination) of ideas for the solution to the contamination and/or spoiling problem.

PUBLISHING • Teams decide how they will present and (“only use media to enhance live presentation”) • Now, tell others about the problem you researched and exactly how your solution can help. • You choose how to share what you’ve learned. • Give a talk. • Create a website. • Perform a skit. • Make a comic book. • Create a “Prezi” • Create a “Voicethread” • Pass out flyers. • Write a poem, song, or story. • Create a video • Create an animation • Think about who is helped by your solution. • How can you let them know? FIRST LEGO LEAGUE

To be eligible for Project Awards your team must have a live presentation that: • Describes the contamination or spoiling problem your team chose to research. • Describes your team’s innovative solution. • Describes how your team shared its findings with others. • Uses media equipment only to enhance the live presentation. FIRST LEGO LEAGUE

During your presentation, be sure that your team… • Describes the food your team chose and what you learned about that food’s journey to your table • Tells about at least one scientist, engineer, doctor, or other professional who is working on the problem • Tells about the research your team did and the information sources that helped to define your problem and solution • Can set up and complete your presentation in 5 minutes or less FIRST LEGO LEAGUE

Here is what you are being judged on… http://firstlegoleague.org/sites/default/files/Challenge/FoodFactor/Combined_Rubrics_FINAL.pdf FIRST LEGO LEAGUE

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