“My Favourite Thing,” Project
We all have our favourite things, it might be a food, a car, a bike, a pair of shoes, a coat.
It doesn’t matter what it is, the aim of this project is to find out more about where it comes from.
How does a tub of ice cream end up in the freezer at the supermarket, waiting for you to take it home and eat it? Ummmmm, Ice cream……
Here’s an example of the type of project I would like you to do. This is only an outline, you should include more information than this.
Chocolate Ice Cream.
Step 1: Raw Materials
In this section you should look at what some of the basic raw materials are and where they come from. The focus here is on the primary industries such as farming, mining, fishing, oil extraction.
The main ingredients for chocolate ice cream are chocoloate, milk,cream and sugar.
Chocolate:
Chocolate is made from Cocoa. Most of the worlds Cacoa is grown in the Ivory Coast, Ghana and Indonesia.
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| Click on the image to find out more about how and where Cocoa is grown |
Once the Cocoa has been harvested it is shipped out to the factories to the made into chocolate. We will learn more about this later in the project.
Milk and Cream
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| Click on the image to explore a British Dairy Farm |
Milk and Cream come from dairy farms. The biggest producer of dairy products such as milk and cream is the European Union. France and Germany are the countries that produce the most within the EU.
Sugar
Sugar comes from either Sugar Cane or Sugar Beet.
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| Sugar Cane (commodityonline.com) |
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| Sugar Beet (DailyCamera.com) |
Brazil is the worlds biggest producer of sugar. Approximately 175 million tonnes of sugar are expected to be produced in 2013/2014.
Step 2: The Manufacturing Process, Making Chocolate Ice Cream
Follow the link below to find out how they make Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream.
What should I do for my project?
The Plan
Part 1: The Raw Materials
1) Plan out what you will write your project on. Write a short summary of what your project will include. Do a quick internet search to see if there is any information to help you. If it is hard to find information on your chosen topic, you might want to pick another one.
2) Pick two or three key raw materials to research. Remember to keep things simple. If you are not sure which raw materials to pick, speak to Mr B.
3) Find out where your raw materials are produced. Which countries are the leading producers? (See the pie chart above showing sugar production.) Mark the location of the raw material producers on a map. Remember to make a key.