BlendEd Best Practices Unit: Project Food Truck
Unit Title:
Title and Description
This unit is titled: Project Food Truck
The description of the purpose of the unit is: In this unit students will design a food truck concept for your town that offers great tasting, interesting and diverse food.
Content Area Skill:
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Language Arts
Information Technology
Multiple Literacies
Digital Age Skill(s):
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Empowered Learners
Direct Instruction
Knowledge Deepening
Knowledge Application
Duration of Unit:
2 weeks on block schedule
Overview of Unit:
In this unit students will design a food truck concept for your town that offers great tasting, interesting and diverse food.
Empower Learners:
Content Area Skills (NE and ISTE Standards):
| LEARNING OBJECTIVES: | STUDENT FRIENDLY OBJECTIVES: |
| CIS.HS.4a.2 Use document processing applications to prepare business communications. | I can use word processing applications to prepare documents for my business. |
| CIS.HS.4a.3 Develop and demonstrate effective professional communication skills and practices. | I can develop and demonstrate effective communication skills. |
| CIS.HS.4a.7 Describe emerging and evolving trends in information technology. | I can develop a food truck plan for emerging and evolving trends in technology. |
| CIS.HS.4a.11 Critical thinking skills will be used to integrate information technology tools to access, manage, and create new information. | I can integrate technology tools to find, manage, and create new information. |
Student Friendly Objectives:
See table above
Empower Learner Activity:
Detailed Description:
1. Design an action plan to complete the Food Truck Project:
2. Goal Setting to formulate contract grading:
Knowledge Application:
Describe the purpose of the Knowledge Application activity/activities (Formative/Summative)
Artifact Profile:
Title of the Artifact:
What is a food truck?
Detailed Description:
Food trucks are a trend that has taken the U.S. by storm. In the past several years, the number of food trucks has continued to increase. There are now over 4000 registered in the U.S. Find out more about food trucks, watch this video, read this article, and/or explore on your own. Starting a food truck business NYTimes article
Content Area Skills Addressed:
CIS.HS.4a.6
Digital Age Skills
Knowledge Constructor
Link to Rubric
Provide either a link or the rubric
Knowledge Deepening:
Detailed Description:
see slides for all tasks
Tasks
Task 1
Logo Design
Task 2
Detailed Menu & Display Menu
Task 3
Food Truck Poster
Task 4
Promotional video to “market” you food truck. Include logo, grand opening information, menu information and any other fun info, videos, photos
Direct Instruction:
Detailed Description
Learning Path:
| Day # | Description | BlendEd Model | Resources |
| Designing a logo - jump start to get students started with this project | Flipped video explaining briefly how to use Canva & Spark | Canva & Adobe Spark | |
| What’s in a Menu? | Station rotation - dine and dash -5 minutes w/menus | Local menus and national chain menus to examine | |