Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Thinking with Evidence - Exploring Biscuits


What’s in a biscuit?

Today we did a bit of research / exploration 

In groups we carried out a bit of research on a range of biscuits from a variety of suppliers.

Purpose:
• To take the students beyond what they already know
• To challenge students’ ideas, beliefs and values
• To enable students to use skills (e.g. thinking, communication, co-operation, research skills) and knowledge to collect new information

Group One Looked at packaging – Making Comparisons between 6 types of biscuit
Group Two - Looked at what’s in the biscuits.  Looking at the ingredients and nutrition Information listed on the packets
Group Three  - Looked at the additives & preservatives – What’s in commercially sold biscuits?
Group Four - Looked at website information, company websites. What do they say? Is it true?
Group Five- Information from books what can we find out?
Group Six – Interviews. Market research. What do students want from a biscuit?

Teams work extremely hard. They will feed back tomorrow.






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