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Retail and Hospitality - Barista
Coffee Tasting Anyone? Primary Middle Secondary Australian Curriculum General Capability: Numeracy Australian Curriculum General Capability: Personal and social capability Australian Curriculum General Capability: Literacy Australian Curriculum General Capability: Critical and creative thinking Australian Curriculum General Capability: ICT Capability
1. You are to set up a coffee blind tasting to find out if people really know the difference between their coffees! This means that the people who you present the different coffees to will not know where coffee has come from, its cost, instant or ground! The best place to set up a taste test is either in the school staff room - testing teachers; or, in the local community shopping centre. You need to work out with your teachers the best place for this testing.
Background Research a. Go to your local coffee shop or cafe and list the different types of coffees. You will need to limit the types of coffees to one or two. Which ones are the most popular from the coffee shop? What is the cost? b. Go to your local grocery shop and list the different types, blends of coffee available - instant as well as ground beans. Find out, if you can, from the shop which coffee sells the most. Work out the cost per cup. c. As a team, of 3 - 4 students, decide from this research, which coffees - out of three - you will present to your participants in the taste test. Remember to include pricing in your decision making. You need to work out how you are going to fund this test too! 2. But what are the characteristics of Coffee? Investigate the following Foodi website: Coffee Tasting and Characteristics. What are the four main elements of coffee tasting? Create a Poster showing what you have learnt about the four main elements using Canva. This poster will aid your participants with their responses.
3. Research the results in a blind tasting in the US between expensive and cheap coffee: Did this taste test tell you if the expensive coffee was expresso or just the price?
4. Blind Tasting
5. Record and analyse the results. Put them into a graph that best shows how your community likes it's coffee. Which coffee in terms of cost was the best?
Extra Research:
Bitter
coffee today? Try changing the colour of your cup
6. Read the following article from
The Conversation 26 November 2014:
Recycling
and Coffee: What are the challenges? What business is it
of yours?
Primary
Middle
Secondary
Australian
Curriculum General Capability:
Critical and creative thinking
Australian
Curriculum General Capability:
Personal and social capability
Australian
Curriculum General Capability:
Numeracy
Cooperative
Learning Activity
1. In pairs, read the following articles from
the Conversation:
1. Let's find out about the waste
mountain in your local area. Firstly, find out the number of coffee shops or
cafes that use disposable cups.
Secondly, find out how many are
used each day.
Calculate the number of disposable
coffee cups are used each year. Crush one to find out the volume of each
cup. Calculate the volume for the year in landfill.
2. Research the types of coffee
cups that can be recycled. Talk to the cafe owners and baristas about the
number of cups that are recycled.
One of the suggestions in the
first article was the cafe owners and baristas were reducing the cost of
coffee if a client brings in their own cup. Would the cafe owners and
baristas in your local area consider this? How would you approach this
suggestion? 3.
Use the strategy -
Think, Pair, Share for the next questions Work out a
campaign to encourage coffee drinkers to dispose of their cups in the
recycling bin. Discuss with a partner.
4. "Coffee grounds are rich in
nitrogen, a vital nutrient for plant growth. This is known by a number of
coffee shops which will provide their used coffee to customers who request
it. It reduces their waste, and might be tipped into organic,
caffeine-infused fruit and veg. What barista could say no to that?"
Six things you can do with coffee - after you've finished drinking it
Ask the cafe owners and baristas how much coffee grounds
they produce each day, each week.
Could you and a partner work out
how you could use this cheap fertilizer and make a business out of selling
it? What would you have to
do to develop a business?
You might start by asking the school for a plot to place the coffee grounds.
Secondly, you might put the coffee grounds on a certain patch of garden and
take photos of before and after. Did these coffee grounds do a good job at
promoting plant growth?
5. See what other young people have done using recycled
coffee grounds:
The
Chemisty of Coffee: What a Barista needs to know
Secondary
Australian
Curriculum General Capability:
Critical and creative thinking
1. Read the following three research
articles on the Chemistry of Coffee from the Conversation:
2. The art
of good coffee is knowing! Knowing what is happening to the coffee
beans is crucial to creating a good cup of coffee.
3. You are to
create an instructional manual in simple language about the Chemistry of
Coffee so that all Baristas can easily understand the importance of knowing
this chemistry.
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