Lesson 2: Courgette Fritters!

Lesson 2: Attributes of a healthy and tasty meal Courgette fritters

We are learning to:

• use seasonal vegetables to make a healthier food product

• use food preparation and cooking skills

• describe key attributes of a food product

• work safely in the kitchen, using good hygiene practices

• work together as a team

• manage time effectively

• evaluate a food product.

Success criteria: “I am successful when I can...”

• use courgettes or other seasonal vegetables to make healthier fritters

• grate vegetables using a large-hole grater

• form similar-sized fritters, fry and then share these evenly amongst my team

• describe key attributes of courgette fritters

• work with my team to make healthier fritters safely, within time constraints.

Evaluate the outcome

What went well? Frying the fritters went better than me and Jedida expected. Getting the ingredients ready to mix went well too! Overall everything went well!

What did not go well? Nothing really went wrong, everything went better than what I expected.

What could be improved?  Maybe cleaning a bit more quicker and when frying the fritters maybe we could’ve made them smaller so that there was more.

Tha Zin Evaluation.

Evaluation

1. How well did I do in completing all of the things that I needed to do for this project?? 8/10

2. the design ideas? when we started planning we had to draw 8 designs and pick 1

3. the final choice? I chose the box since it seemed quite simple and easy for me to make, and also since I'm new at hard materials I decided to give it a shot.

4.  the working drawing? the working drawing took me a few minutes to design and look at some of the working drawings so that I could make my own.

5. the marking out? I had some trouble with it but I did manage to get it done after 3 or 4 tries.

6. the sawing? sawing needed a bit of strength and I was a bit tired after it but I did do a mistake but still worked out.

7. the chiselling? chiselling was hard and I even cut myself but that was the lesson that I learnt that day. I also found it kind of difficult.

8. the assembly?  assembling the box was kinda tricky because some of the joints I had made was too loose or too tight.

9. looking at what you have produced,

10. does it work? I made a box and it works like it's supposed to

11. does it look good? it looks pretty smooth after sanding the rough edges

12. is there anything that you would change if you were to make the same project again? I wouldn't want to change anything about my project that I have made.

13. is there anything else you wish to say about it? no I don't have anything else to say about my project

Tha Zin Recording Of Hard Materials

I used a steel ruler, pencil and a piece of wood to make a full size working drawing of my box because on the drawing when we make a mistake we can always fix it but when we just start cutting the wood we cannot fix that. I used a steel ruler, pencil, wood and a tri-square to copy the measurements from my drawing onto the piece of wood we had to create our design. I then marked a square line (at 90°) across using the steel ruler and the pencil. I cut off the first piece of wood using a saw and a bench hook, I then marked out the joint so then I could cut it and use the chisel to get a join of the wood. After making my first joint I then made sure that my longer piece of wood had fit into the joint and at first it was very tight then I just carried on and made my second joint, both of them were very tight so I asked help and Mr Grundy cut a bit out of the joint and it fit perfectly. Later Mr Grundy out 2 piece of wood so that when we put all the pieces together they made a box, and now I'm waiting for the box to dry. The next step is the lid which Mr Grundy then got a MDF (medium density fibreboard) and cut it to the length of my box and the width of the outside of my box, he then got a piece of wood and cut it to the inside of my box. Now I'm waiting for the lid to dry because Mr Grundy put glue on so that they could stick together really well.

Technology Wood

For tech at Tamaki I am now in hard materials and I am creating a box, I chose to make a box for myself but my mum can also use it too. This is the best choice for me because if I create this then me or my mum can have more storage space. It will be used as a box filled with cons or whatever we choose to put in. I will need to consider making it stable so that if my brother finds it and plays with it it won't break.