AS 91357
Iron Man Dinner
Make an iron-rich athlete dinner for your family including some form of plant based protein.
Technology 2.4 - Undertake effective development to make and trial a prototype.
Introduction to This Topic
Zoom Lesson 1 - Intro
THE BRIEF
If you want to change the brief, negotiate with your teacher.
RECIPES TO INVESTIGATE...
Experiment with different recipes to get an idea of suitable ingredients and processes for your athlete dinner. Search your own...
EVALUATE & CHOOSE
Test out different ingredients, techniques / processes and equipment options.
Choose the best ones for your dinner.
Test INGREDIENTS and choose the best ones
Experiment and test some different ingredients to get the best outcome. E.g. you could test different varieties of beans and lentils, or different types of tofu.
Beans
red kidney, pinto, white, navy, black
Chickpeas
Lentils
red lentils, brown lentils, green lentils
Tofu
silken tofu, firm tofu, soft tofu
Find out which makes the best outcome. Consider: colour, taste, cost, nutrition, texture, cooking methods required.
Test PROCESSES and choose the best ones
For example, you may try a number of ways of cooking the tofu:
draining it first on paper towels
coating it in corn starch prior to cooking
stove-top in non-stick pan
oven baked
pre-marinating
sprinkling with seasonings in pan
Run a trial to find out which processes work best with your chosen ingredients.
Choose your TOOLS and EQUIPMENT
Choose the best equipment for making your dinner outcome.
Consider what is available, what saves time and what gives a consistent quality outcome.
Google Classroom Assessment
Open the Assessment in Google Classroom. Write down which ingredients & processes you tested and what your results were.
Write down tools/equipment you have chosen to use.
Write down the ingredients and processes you have chosen to use and give an evaluation of the various ingredients and processes.
MAKE YOUR PROTOTYPE
Social environment - people who will be interacting with the outcome.
Physical environment - where the outcome will be situated.
Make Your Prototype Meal
Use the materials, components, tools and equipment you selected to make your prototype to address your brief.
Write down how you made your prototype in the Google Classroom Assessment. Include photos too.
TRIAL YOUR DINNER IN CONTEXT
Social environment - people who will be interacting with the outcome.
Physical environment - where the outcome will be situated.
Trialling your product in context
Trial your dinner in its intended social environment (the people who will be interacting with the outcome), and physical environment (where the outcome will be situated).
Record these trials, and the results of them in your assessment. What did you learn? How did this inform your prototyping and product development? What decisions did you make as a result?
STAKEHOLDER FEEDBACK
Combine stakeholder feedback and your results from ongoing tests and trials to make the best possible iron-rich athlete dinner.
Feedback, feedback, feedback.
Get feedback from your key stakeholder all the way. Write it down in your Assessment.
Get feedback from experts, end-users and all kinds of stakeholders.
Consider stakeholder feedback in all your decisions.
ACCEPT OR MODIFY?
Justify your decisions to accept or modify your prototype.
Is your prototype fit for purpose, or does it need to be modified?
State whether you accept your prototype, and the recipe you have developed for it, or whether it needs to be modified. Does it meet the brief?
Give your reasons. Include reasons from:
Stakeholder feedback
Results from your tests and trials
Your social and physical context
SPECIFICATIONS
Justify your your prototype meets your specifications.
Justify your specifications are met
Justify that each of your specifications has been met. Explain how you met them. Refer to stakeholder input.
ASSESSMENT TASK & EXEMPLARS
Exemplar Examples
This student has made a refined prototype for a mobile chilly bin.
This student has evaluated practical techniques and processes to determine their appropriateness for use (1), and used evidence from ongoing testing and stakeholder feedback to inform the making and trialling of the prototype (2).
To reach Excellence, the student could synthesise the on-going testing and stakeholder feedback. Often decisions seemed to be made on the basis of ‘what my stakeholder and I decided’, and the justification for this decision making could be more apparent.