Finally, we managed to construct our tuna salad wrap which contained many popular Mayan food such as avocado, red chilli pepper, lettuce and tuna. We was super careful when using or chopping and cutting skills to cut the vegetables for the wrap. We really enjoyed our wraps, they were delicious!
We refreshed ourselves after all our hard work with a typical Mayan drink! We mixed some cacao powder with warmed milk and a dash of chilli powder to replicate the ancient Mayas recipe.
In expedition this afternoon, we made our own tortillas after finding out these were a staple food in the Mayan civilisation. We worked in mini crews and worked together (putting or mass and capacity knowledge to good use) and weighed all the ingredients. We rolled the dough and fried it to make the tortilla. We are going to need the tortilla in our next lesson.
Today, for our final Expedition Hook Week lesson we created maps of Carcroft. First, we stained our paper using tea bags and water to make them look more like an old map! We then used pictures of some of the key locations and cut and arranged them in the style of David Hockney.
We began the day by thinking back to what we already knew about the human body. We cut out bones to create a skeleton and explored why we have a skeleton. Next, we added in the organs and recapped the digestive system to ensure our learning from last year had stuck.
After that, we completed two kahoot quizzes about the skeleton and the digestive system before moving on to what we would the focus of our case study: the circulatory system. Finally, we actually explored a real heart and watched a dissection. It was amazing to see the different chambers and blood vessels and to actually touch these.
Did you know that the Maya were the first people to turn beans from the cacao tree into drinking chocolate? Well, we were lucky enough to be able to sample a version of this today! We mixed some cacao powder with warmed milk and a dash of chilli powder to be able to try it for ourselves.
Did you guess what we were making? We used the popular Maya ingredients that we blind taste tested yesterday, along with the tortilla wraps we made today, to create tuna salad wraps! We worked carefully to cut and chop the ingredients we needed to add to our tuna – avocados, lettuce and chilli – and then added the ones we were comfortable trying to our freshly fried tortillas! Delicious!
Following our blind taste testing yesterday, we continued with our hook week DT by making our own tortillas! The Ancient Maya people enjoyed making and eating delicious corn tortillas but we made ours with flour. We worked in mini crews to measure out and mix the ingredients to make the dough before rolling this out into tortilla shapes and frying. These were then used to go with our final product – Can you guess what we might have made? HINT: We used some of the ingredients from our taste testing yesterday…
We have finished our hook week creating a map of Carcroft using David Hockney artwork.
As part of Hook Week we have created maps of Carcroft in the style of David Hockney. The children used tea bags to stain their paper and then used pictures of places in Carcroft and cut and arranged them. We think they look fantastic!
So the end of the week as come for hook week. The children have really enjoyed learning about Maya People and what they ate and drank in their time. The children then had ago at predicting what the guiding question will be . They didn’t get it right
How ever the guiding question is: What is the cost of a bar of chocolate?
Title : From bean to bar
