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Design and make a snack that uses at least one fair-traded ingredient. Every day we make invisible connections with farmers all around the world who produce the things we buy and use. These people are just like us – they need to eat, send their children to school and pay for healthcare. But at the moment, the price we pay for their products often doesn’t enable them to do this. The answer? Fair trade. In this unit you will:  gain knowledge and understanding of the design and make process  understand who you are designing for by creating a customer profile  design and label a range of products  write a design specification  produce a step-by-step plan for making your product  make a quality product.  add 10 keywords to your vocabulary Ingredients, Recipe, Analysing, Specification, Quality, Production, Hygiene, Vitamin, Fibre, Batch If you see a product in the supermarket with the FAIRTRADE MARK, you know that the farmers who grew it were paid a fair price and had good working conditions. There are now over 100 different types of fair-traded food products on sale in the UK, including chocolate, tea, coffee, honey, nuts, bananas, sugar, mangoes, pineapples and fruit juice.

Go to the Learning Context page at and look at the Did you know? facts. Follow the links and collect your own fascinating facts about fair trade and write them down here.

Go to the Research page at ((need specific address for this part of the site)) and read the information about fair trade and the case studies about Divine and Dubble chocolate bars, the impact of fair trade on coffee growers, and honey harvesting in Zimbabwe. Using words and pictures create a ‘mood board’ within the cogs to illustrate the theme of fair trade food.

1. What type of food product is it, what ingredients does it contain and where does it come from? 4. Draw your product. How much does it weigh? What does it taste like? 5. Separate the food product into its component parts. Taste each ‘component’ and write down words to describe the different tastes. 2. What type of person do you think would buy and eat this product? 3. Has it been processed? How? What equipment was needed to make it? Choose an fair trade food product and answer the following questions by filling in the boxes.

Choose a food product that hasn’t been fair traded but is similar to the product you have already looked at. Fill in the boxes below for this second product. 1. What type of food product is it, what ingredients does it contain and where does it come from? 4. Draw your product. How much does it weigh? What does it taste like? 5. Separate the food product into its component parts. Taste each ‘component’ and write down words to describe the different tastes. 2. What type of person do you think would buy and eat this product? 3. Has it been processed? How? What equipment was needed to make it?

I want my new food product to: _____________________________________________________________________

Who is going to buy and eat your product? What do they like? What don’t they like? Write, draw and stick pictures here to show the type of customer you are designing for: Go out and do a survey. Ask some possible customers what they would like etc. Add their comments into the speech bubbles below:

How can you combine your ingredients to make your product? Write, draw and stick examples here to show the different processing and cooking methods you could use.

Using your research, specification and customer profile, draw at least FIVE different design ideas for products made using at least one fair- traded ingredient. Remember to consider the sustainability of your product. Label your drawings and explain any changes that you decide to make to your design. You can start your ideas on this page and continue on the following page(s) Remember to evaluate your work as it develops. Ask yourself; 1. Which is your favourite design and why? 2. How could you improve it? 3. List at least three pieces of equipment you would use to make it. 4. What other features can you comment on? “Over one billion people – most of them farmers and farm workers – live on $1 (about 70p) or less a day.”

Look at your specifications and your design ideas to select the most appropriate design. Draw your final design here.

Draw and write a step-by-step plan for making your product. Fill in the chart below to show what equipment you are going to use to make your product. How do you plan to use each piece of equipment?

Personal evaluation Overall, how do you think you tackled this project? What were your strengths and weaknesses? What did you enjoy most? What did you find easy? What was difficult? Try to be as detailed as possible. Design work Identify two faults with your design work and suggest improvements you could make. 1) Fault: Improvement: 2) Fault: Improvement: Practical work Identify two faults with your practical work and suggest improvements you could make. 1) Fault: Improvement: 2) Fault: Improvement: How could you have improved your work on this project? Try to think about the way you worked, rather than about your final product.

Now it is time to judge the quality of your final product using your design specification. In the table below, fill in what you said you wanted your product to do (your specification) and then say how well your final product does each of these things. I wanted my product to:How well does it do this? Assessment Effort level: Designing and making level: My targets for the next project are:

Exploring existing ideasProduct specificationExploring ideasDeveloping & modelling ideas Generating design ideasFinal designPlanningEvaluation