EasiYo yoghurt-making system
Year: 7, 8, 9
Curriculum level: Level 3, Level 4
Strand: Technological Knowledge, Nature of Technology
Curriculum component: Technological Products, Characteristics of Technology
Technological area: Food Technology, Processing Technologies
| EasiYo Products began producing a unique yoghurt-making system in 1992, a product so successful that that the company began selling overseas the following year. Over the years, other products have been added to the yoghurt line and the company now exports 75% of what it manufactures. | |
| Teaching activities: Year 7-10 | |
| Focus points include:
Characteristics of Technology Level 3/4
Technological Products Level 3/4
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| Teaching Activities | Additional Material: |
| Discuss how social and environmental issues could have influenced EasiYo's decision making about:
Identify and discuss the range of knowledge and skills involved in new product development in the dairy industry Discuss the subjective and objective measurement of performance properties of the materials used in new product development in the yoghurt industry and how these properties combine to make the products both technically feasible and socially acceptable. Discuss the below terms in relation to new product development in the dairy industry
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