Y9+Joy+-+Technology

14-12-2012

Evaluation Stage

Please do the product test according to the product test plan you developed in investigation stage. Produce a product evaluation with data generated from product test and reflection on your performance on every stage (investigate, design, plan, create and evaluate) suggest some ways for improvement. Finally, write the impact that the product may bring to society, environment and self.

In your evaluation, you need to include

1) Product test results (Data must be generated)

2) Product evaluation (evaluate the success of product, especially evaluate the success of the product against design specification)

3) Performance Reflection in all the stages in design cycle (pros, cons, improving ways)

4) Impact of the product



Please check your work with the check list before submission. Do not miss the things that mentioned in the check list.



Deadline of Evaluation Stage and the whole project: 20/12

If you hand in the work on or before 18/12, you are going to get two marks extra in attitude in Technology.

Create Stage

After the practical assessment, you need to do the process journal.

To do list in a process journal

You have to record all your work in create stage in process journal with pictures or video.

State the steps in detail, explain them with pictures, provide the date as well.

All these **__changes__** must be __**stated and explained clearly**__ in the process journal.

Lastly, you should provide pictures showing the front and back view of your final product.



Deadline of process journal: 11/12 (Finish your process journal in class)

Deadline of evaluation and the whole project: 20/12

Plan Stage

In your plan, you are required to

1) make a production plan, telling me the steps with time and resources, eg. tools and equipment, materials, in detail. It will be better if you can include any check points and safety concern.

2) make a timeline, telling me the proposed finish date of every step.

3) evaluate your plan, analyze the pros and cons of you plan, figure out any possible difficulties and some solutions to solve this foreseeable problems.

You are going to have the trail on the plan and final design next week (9/11). Please refer to Ingredients the school will ptovide.

For the food preparation tips, please refer to You may also refer to for the names of tools and equipment.

In your plan stage, you should include the following things. 1) a brief introduction 2) a time and resources plan (time limit: 90 minutes) you can also include the cutting list and contingency plan)  3) a timeline/ flow chart 4) a plan evaluation Deadline: 9/11/2012 (just the list of ingredients, time and resources plan) final deadline: 23/11/2012, 12:00am

Submit your work in PDF via edmodo.

Design Stage

For the design stage, you are required to

1.. Design at least 4 designs of packed meal.

2. Write a description of the 4 designs and compare them among each other against the design specification in a table.

3. Choose 1 design as a final design or justify the design, color it and show it in full dimension.

4. Write a description titled “final design and justification” to tell me the reason why it can be your final choice and describe the final design. Also mention the success of design against the design specification

In your design stage, you should include the following things

1) at least 3 (good to have 4) pieces of design descriptions ( 1 piece for 1 design)

2) comparison of the 4 designs against design specifications

3) a colored final design in full dimension

4) final design and justification (describe the final design and explain the reason why you choose or modify it as your final design)

Deadline: 2/11/2012

Submit your work via edmodo. The group code of 9J food technology is khl79q, For the sign up and submission in edmodo, please refer to Create a Edmodo student account and do the homework submission

__ Investigate Stage __

Design Brief, design specification and product test plan. The design brief (1 Page), design specification(1 Page) and product test plan (3 Pages),. This area is an important part in the investigation and in the whole project. You must include this part in the investigation stage. For the design brief, please tell me how you are going to solve the problem or do a challenging task - enhance performance by developing a balanced diet. Use 100-300 words to describe what you will do and how it meets your theme.

For the design specification, please tell me your requirements on the packed meal design and production. State the design specification under to subtitle, Essential criteria and Desirable criteria. For the essential criteria, please include the elements that it is a must to be on the packed meal or in the packed meal design. For the desirable criteria, please include the elements that it is optional to be on the packed meal or in the packed meal design. List your criteria in point form. For the product test plan, please include at least 2 test plans here. For example, product test plan is a self check list and the other is a questionnaire. Please be reminded that a) you should test your product against all the design specification. b) you should also state the aim of the product test is to see whether the product meets the design specifications and judge the product is successful or not. c) you should also state clearly how you determin if your product is success or not. eg The product will be regarded as success if 70% 0f the criteria are checked as a yes.(Please refer to the sample for Product Test Plan.)

Deadline: 2/11/2012 Submit your work in PDF via edmodo. The group code of 9J food technology is khl79q, For the sign up and submission in edmodo, please refer to Create a Edmodo student account and do the homework submission

Research - Secondary and Primary Research

Dear all 9J students,

This week, you have to start your research for the design and production of the packed meal. You may search some information from internet, books, newspaper, videos, journals and magazines for the secondary research. You should also acknowledge your sources.

In your research, you may use the following guided question to help you.

1) What are the dietary requirement of the runners in marathon? 2) What is a balanced diet? 3) What is the definition of packed meal? 4) How can we make a packed meal? 5) What is the function of nutrients? 6) What are the food that can enhance sports performance? 7) How can we increase people's appetite?

I would like you all to hand in your research work to me as follow
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In the iBooks author, your should cite the in-text referencing as the picture shown above. The way that you provided the information of the sources would be simply the surname of the author or the name of the organization, "comma", and the published year. You can also provide the short-form of the organization which people commonly know, such as WHO for World Health Organization. The published year must be in four digits and you should not put AD or BC for the record.

Provide a correct bibliography at the end. Refer to the school citation guide ** and record down the source you found. **

Apart from the secondary research listed above, you are required to do primary search, too. Primary research is collecting data from the real world. You can (1)do a survey, (2)do an experiment, (3)do interviews or (4) do an observation and write a report.


 * Choose one of them only. ** Please present the data, the result, discuss the findings, analyise the result and apply them in your investigation **in 3-5 pages with font 12.**

If you are doing a survey, please include the following part in your survey. 1) Introduction (tell the others who you are, what you are doing, what your topic is, why you are doing the survey, thank the participant for doing the survey. 2) asking for the demographic information, eg. age, gender, job/occupation, household income, pocket money...... 3) asking for the questions under your topic to get your findings 4) ask more than 5 people to get your data. 5) show your survey data, analyze it and apply it in your investigation. You can go to [] to take a reference of the others' survey.

If you are doing an experiment, please include the following part in your lab report. 1) your experiment plan, explain why you do the experiment, what you want to find out in the experiment, and how you do in the experiment. 2) your process record of your experiment, include the date, place, the materials, the tools, the process and the pictures of each steps. 3) your experiment result: show your experiment findings and apply it in your investigation You can go to [] to take a reference of the others' lab report.

If you are doing an interviews, please include following part in your interviews report. 1) design the questions before asking 2) ask 1 person for the interviews 3) provide a script of your conversation with your interviewees. 4) make use of the interviewees' answers and get the findings. 5) apply your findings in the investigation

If you are doing an observation, please include following part in your observation report. 1) please observe at least 3 targets for observation report 2) the please state the date, time, place, your targets and your aims of observation clearly 3) state your findings clearly, and you must include pictures in your report. 4) apply your findings in the investigation

Lastly, try to **use graph, pie chart or table** to illustrate your data and findings. Analyze the findings in paragraphs.

Research (both Secondary and Primary research) and bibliography Due date: 28/9/2012

Cover Page, Mindmap and Introduction

Dear all Y9J students,

Welcome to Year 9 Food Technology this year. Starting from this year, you need to do all your Technology work in iBook and submit it in iBook via email or air-drop.

This year, you're required to do a Food Technology project under a unit "Cook for fitness". In Food Technology, you are required to design and make a lunch box for runners. For the details of the unit and task, please refer to the following file.



Classwork: In the first lesson, you have to write an introduction (300-500 words) for the project as a class work. In the introduction, please 1) show your understanding of the unit, 2) address the problem and explain with your words 3) state that you are going to use the design cycle to solve the problems by designing and making lunch box for the runners and briefly plan how you do it in the stages. 4) write the expected impact of your packed meal

For the details, please refer to

For the schedule of the Y9 Food Technology, please refer to

Assignment: Please prepare a cover page, a mind map and an introduction and bring this THREE things in iBook next lesson. On your cover page, please show 1) The name of school 2) your name 3) your homeroom 4) the name of subject (Food Technology) 5) the name of unit (Cook for fitness). You are recommended to make some decoration on the cover page.

In the mindmap, please start with the unit title "Cook for fitness".

Reminder for class and the assignment Classwork: Introduction(submit in iBook) HW: a cover page and a mind-map (submit in iBook) Due Date: 7/9/2012