Hot Bread
Julia Gosley
The Technology Centre, Monrad Intermediate School
Palmerston North
Introduction
This unit was developed at the technology centre attached to Monrad Intermediate School. The centre caters for 11 rural schools on the outskirts of Palmerston North and two private city schools. There are a range of deciles and the students are from year 7. The students are taken by bus to the technology centre once a week for a two-hour session and their programme includes a 10 week block on Food Technology. There are two classrooms, one for Hard Materials and Electronics and the other Food, Soft Materials, and Biotech.
Year Group
Year 7
Context/Setting
The "Hot Bread Snack" unit was created because a number of students in the full day programmes bring food to be heated for lunch. The hot food was mostly pies so we looked at what the other possibilities could be and from that the concept of the unit was formed.
The quick meal-snack idea enabled the students to create a variety of products quickly which seemed to appeal. Most students enjoyed developing their product ideas and in their evaluations said that making their choices for food combinations and creating their own recipe was what they liked the most.
