1. POPCORN SALE

2. Popcorn Sale Week
We will be spending most of this week working towards a popcorn sale in school.
Everyday we will do something to work on this project.
This is a cross-curricular maths project.

3. Popcorn Project activities
The plan for the week
Day
Popcorn Project activities
Monday
Project brief, discuss a plan, sample, calculate costs, work out how much profit we can make, design packaging.
Tuesday
Production day!
Make popcorn, package, advertise in classrooms (free samples?).
Wednesday
Maybe make more popcorn if we haven’t made enough.
Practise making amounts with money, practise calculating change, prepare our stalls, sell popcorn at the start of lunch.
Thursday
Practise calculating change, set up our stalls, sell popcorn at the start of lunch.
Friday
Sell any surplus popcorn at lunch.

4. Project Brief We need to raise money for Educate Africa.
We need to sell something easy and cheap to make; popcorn!
We need to encourage all of the children in school to buy our popcorn.

5. Plain - Toffee - Sweet Market Research
Market research is finding out what your customers think of the product you are going to sell before you start producing it.
A good way to do this is to make a survey.
Plain Toffee Sweet

6. Results The most popular flavour of popcorn is (toffee/ plain/ sweet).
As we want as many people as possible to buy them, we need to make the (toffee/ plain/ sweet) flavoured ones.

7. Product Specification
Affordable (cheap for children to buy)
Tasty
Easy to make in the classroom

8. We need to know our product
Taste the samples
Know how much ingredients cost us
Know the production process
Recommend on the playground (word of mouth advertising)

9. Plain

10. The production process
Oil the pan
Pop the kernels
Cool
Put in bags
Seal bags
Sell! Sell! Sell!

11. Have a taste!
WARNING: Do not eat if you have a medical allergy to any of the ingredients. vegetable oil corn kernels

12. Recipe & costs to make
vegetable oil £… 1/2 cup of corn kernels £…

13. Sweet

14. The production process
Oil the pan
Pop the kernels
Cool
Add icing sugar to the popcorn
Stir popcorn
Put in bags
Seal bags
Sell! Sell! Sell!

15. Have a taste!
WARNING: Do not eat if you have a medical allergy to any of the ingredients. vegetable oil corn kernels Icing sugar

16. Recipe & costs to make
vegetable oil £… ½ cup of corn kernels £… ½ cup icing sugar £…

17. Toffee

18. The production process
Oil the pan
Pop the kernels
Melt the ingredients
Cool
Pour onto popcorn
Stir popcorn
Spread on tray
Put in oven
Put in bags
Seal bags
Sell! Sell! Sell!

19. Have a taste!
WARNING: Do not eat if you have a medical allergy to any of the ingredients. vegetable oil corn kernels butter brown sugar condensed milk vanilla extract

20. Recipe & costs to make
This was the recipe used on the video: vegetable oil (free) 1/2 cup of corn kernels £… 50g of butter £… 1 cup of brown sugar £… 1/2 cup of condensed milk £… 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract (free)

21. Packaging spec. Must: Should: Could: Be clean Keep popcorn in Be cheap
Look attractive
Explain what’s inside
Not be wasteful
Could:
Be tied up
Have our name on
Advertise the charity

22. Your task:
Practise your packaging design on some scrap paper/in your jotter.
Include:
‘Popcorn for Malawi’
‘Designed by…’
‘Good Hope School’

23. Production Day!
You will be split into 2 teams; Green Team and Grey Team
Everyone will have an important job in the production process.
Green Team will be on the production line first, while Grey Team decorate the bags.
We will then switch over.

24. Health and Safety Coats and jumpers off Clean tables and no chairs
Wash hands with soap thoroughly
Do not touch your face/nose/mouth
Do not put any food in your mouth
Do not touch hot pans/trays/cookers

25. Prices Discuss how much it costs to make a batch.
Calculate how much it costs to make one bag.
We need to make more money, so calculate a sensible (not greedy) profit.
Agree on a price.

26. Advertise across school

27. £1coin £5 note 50p coin £2 coin
Maths
What different coin combinations can be used to make the cost of our popcorn bags?
Calculate change from these amounts:
£1coin £5 note 50p coin £2 coin