Mt. Washington Valley School To Career Partnership

Project-Based Unit
Title of Unit Consumer Fair

Subject Area	Grade Level	Time to Complete
All	7 & 8	3 Weeks

Author’s Name	School Address	Phone, E-mail
McDonald, Moore Vienneau, Wiggin Perkins, Smith, St. Pierre, Ferguson, Stevens	881 Tamworth Rd.	323-7271

Framing Question

How can consumers find the "best" food?

Workplace or Community Context

Grocery Store, Nutritionist, Food Processing/Packaging plants

The Project
Students select a food, purchase three different brands, set up comparison studies, determine the best food, and present their findings. Overview
Math: Cost Analysis: Students will determine a cost analysis by comparing the cost of each product to the mass, volume, or number of items and express it as a decimal. Packaging Analysis: Each student will set up a ratio of the total surface area of their product to the mass, volume, or number of items.

Marketing: Students will be responsible for developing and distributing a "Favorite Foods" survey or questionaire.

Spanish: Focusing on the metric system and using Spanish terms for nutritional components. Exchange "Favorite Foods" survey with Mexican Partner School.

Science: Experiment: Select an aspect of the food to test (ie. Thickness of sauce, number of kernels popped). Compare the three brands. Taste test: Conduct a valid taste test of the three brands.

Nutrition: Compare the nutritional value of their food with a similar healthier or unhealthy food.

Music: Write and record a jingle advertising their project for the Hyperstudio presentation.

History: Research history of the product or company. Generate a timeline.

Technology: Research the history of the product online. Add the questionnaire to the Brett School Web page. Generate graphs and charts on the computer. Create a Hyperstudio stack to help with presentation.

English: Public Speaking: Practice presentation to judges. Letter Writing: Send results of study to at least on of the companies.

Alignment with New Hampshire Curriculum Frameworks

Framework	How it is addressed in your project
Science: 1a	Students will design and conduct a controlled scientific investigation, identifying the dependent variables. Compare experimental results with predicted results and suggest logical reasons for any discrepancies.
Science: 2a	Students will choose appropriate instruments and methods for making specific measurements and will use the metric system to measure and label quantities.
Science: 2c	Students will... find information from various sources, including print references, computer data bases, and the internet. ...collect data and create a spreadsheet to display that data. ...performs calculations using simple equations. ...design charts and tables to display data. ..describe the process used to collect and analyze data and express the resulting interpretation in a writtten narrative.
Science: 3c	Identify and cite the need for important chemical substances found within certain foods.
Science: 6d	Collect data and create graphical representations of that data inm various forms and scales.

The following standards are from the S.A.U. 13 Social Studies Curriculum.

Problem Solving:	Students will use calculators and computers as an integral tool in solving problems involving data collection and display, tedious calculations, simulations, and so on.
Communication:	Students will explain and justify their solutions to and thought process for a given problem in a variety of settings such as in cooperative groups or in a class presentation.
Measurement:	Students will extend their understanding of the process of measurement: identify the attribute to be measured; select an appropriate unit; select a tool; do the measurement. Students will be encouraged to select appropriate units and tools to measure to the degree of accuracy required in a particular situation. Students will extend their understanding of the concepts of perimeter, circumference, area, volume, surface area, angle measure, capacity, and weight and mass.

The Following standards are from the S.A.U. 13 Social Studies Curriculum.

7.14

Students will develop a sense of where to find answers from a variety of sources using the traditional written word as well as the material available from the electronic media.

8.3

Students will appreciate how past, present, and future economic issues and concerns can be effectively addressed by the application of economic knowledge and reasoning.

8.5

Students will perfect the ability to find answers to a variety of questions from many sources, including the written word and electronic media.

E3 Speaking, Listening, and Viewing
E3a The student participates in one-to-one conferences with a teacher, paraprofessional, or adult volunteer, in which the student: initiates a new topic in addition to responding to adult-initiated topics; asks relevant questions; responds to questions with appropriate elaboration; uses language cues to indicate different levels of certainty or hypothesizing, e.g.; "what if...;" "very likely....," "I,m unsure whether...;"

E3c The students prepares and delivers an individuai presentation in which the student: shapes information to achieve a particular purpose and to appeal to the interests and background knowledge of audience members; shapes content and organization according to criteria for importance and impact rather than according to availability of information in resource materials; uses notes or other memory aids to structure the presentation; develops several main points relating to a single thesis; engages the audience with appropriate verbal cues and eye contact; projects a sense of individuality and personality in selecting and organizing content, and in delivery.

E2 Writing is a process through which a writer shapes language to communicate effectively. Writing often develops through a series of initial plans and multiple drafts and through access to informed feedback and response. Purpose, audience, and context contribute to the form and substance of writing as well as to its style, tone, and stance. The student will: restates or summarizes information; relates new information to prior knowledge and experience; extends ideas; and makes connections to related information.

Mt. Washington Valley School-to-Career Coordinator
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7.14	Students will develop a sense of where to find answers from a variety of sources using the traditional written word as well as the material available from the electronic media.
8.3	Students will appreciate how past, present, and future economic issues and concerns can be effectively addressed by the application of economic knowledge and reasoning.
8.5	Students will perfect the ability to find answers to a variety of questions from many sources, including the written word and electronic media.