the BOX of nice things

Monday, October 4, 2010, 3:01 PM

the journey so far

Another week went by and we'd done so much in class!!

for DCX 130 Teaching of food & Nutrition,
we had done SOW and coursework B report..
This is what happened during the lab session last week,
each group have to set up a station to collect data for our report...

Group 1 (the group I'm in ^-^) - The Pepsi Challenge!

Basically, we would like to determine if the perceived preference will tally with the preference after tasting.
Results collected shows that more subjects prefers Coke to Pepsi both before and after tasting..

Group 2 - I smell a Rat!
this station, we have to smell 5 different test tubes and try to identify the ingredients in the test tubes.
didnt have sensitive nose so all the test tubes smell bad to me.
there's this pungent smell which i think it's from vinegar..

Group 3 - Let them eat cake!
At this station, we are given 2 chocolate cake samples and were asked to evaluate the samples based on sweetness, buttery mouthfeel and colour.

Group 4 - There's a spy among us!
This station uses the classic triangular test, where we have to taste 3 sugar solution and identify the odd one out. There is very little difference in the sweetness and I couldn't really tell which one is the odd one out.

Group 5 - Smell Checkpoint!

I like this station best as I really couldn't tell the flavour of the 4 baby food samples without my sense of smell. I realized I'm so dependent on my sense of smell and without it, food just tasted weird and the texture feels wrong.

Group 6 - Who moved my cheese?!
We need to evaluate the 2 cheese sample by colour, milkiness and smoothness to decide which sample is the low fat variation. I find that both tasted very similar, thus I guess I must really give credit to the food manufacturer for making low fat cheese taste just as great as the full fat ones. Save me some calories without compromising the taste! =)

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And for our home economics lesson, we'd prepared a coursework for lower secondary..
Now, we're moving on to setting an examination paper..

The first step is to map up all the topics to be covered and start to allocate the marks for each topic.. So we have to come up with the table of specification (TOS) before the actual setting of paper can begin.

This is the sample TOS Ms Chin showed us in class

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Lastly for our clothing and textile module, apart from learning how to use the embroidery machines, and preparing samples for my competency profile, I'd made a draw string bag that's super cute as Dr Mok provided us with very sweet looking fabrics!

Labels: DCX 130 Teaching Food and Nutrition, DCX 131 Teaching of Clothing and Textiles, DCX 132 Home Economics Curriculum and Evaluation