Pre-planning
Diana Eagle: "A lot of students will cook and make a 'moosh' and they don't care because it's their 'moosh' and they'll eat it. They don't tend to look back at what they've made and analyse what happened. They just go on to the next practical and make another 'moosh'. Then a few years later they have to make rice or whatever again and can't remember how they made it."
Batters in a Bottle was first delivered in 2005. Diana's aim was to bring some of the content which had become established at Year 11 down into Year 10. She wanted a project that all the students could manage, where they could get a stakeholder and which would not be too expensive.
Diana wanted to initiate learning about Food Technology by giving students hands-on experience with foods and food formulation. By trying out basic recipes such as pikelets, students learn from their own mistakes.
This unit would bring in sensory and storage testing and give students their first experience of working with a stakeholder.
Diana Eagle: "I wanted to come up with a Year 10 project that could build from a given brief; which was constraining enough to be manageable from a teaching perspective but gave the students enough of a chance to show their creativity and to do it in a way which would lead them into the approach we would be taking in Year 11."
