What's For Breakfast?

          The goal of this optional assignment is to investigate the process of how your breakfast foods make their way from their origin to your table.  You must choose ONE item and complete all the tasks required to receive credit.

OBJECTIVE:
Upon completion of the project the students will:
-         Enhance their understanding of how their breakfast foods are picked, collected, or gathered.
-         Develop a much deeper knowledge of how their foods are transported from their places or origin.

-    Improve their awareness of the processing procedures of their foods, if applicable.

-    Compare and contrast the methods of extracting the basic foods, processing and packaging them, as well as their final transportation to the market.

FOODS:

-    Bacon

-    Cottage cheese

-    Eggs

-    Grits

-    Maple syrup

-    Oranges

-    Pineapples

-    Sausage (breakfast)

-    Smoked salmon

-    Strawberries

PROCEDURE: 
Each student will choose ONE food to research.  Sources of information may be found in the Upper School Library, the internet, or other reputable sources.  For each food selected the student must complete the following:

1) Identify a specific major location or region of origin and discuss why this location is ideal.

2) Describe the method of picking, collecting, or gathering (multiple ingredients if necessary)

3) Discuss the process of transporting the food to the processing or packaging plants.

4) Discuss the means by which the packaged food makes its way from the plants to the markets (specifically to Florida).