DEVRO & Chryston High PROJECT
You are asked to produce a magazine for
DEVRO Visitors & New staff.
The magazine must tell the reader about micro-organisms and also contain any three of the following topics:
• Food Industry in Scotland
• Sausages around the world
• Careers in the food industry
• Scottish scientists and Micro-organisms
• Food industry and Micro-organisms
• Kitchen Hygiene
• Good verses bad micro-organisms
• Micro-organisms in medicine
• Design a new sausage for DEVRO
• Scottish Diet compared with a country of your choice.
Task completion date is Monday 28th March 2011.
Prizes will be awarded to the winning team.
Information Pack DEVRO Project – Feb 2011
Useful microbe web sites:
http://www.newscientist.com/section/science-news
http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/dlc-me/zoo/
http://www.bam.gov/sub_diseases/diseases_immuneplatoon_microbes.html
http://science.pppst.com/viruses.html
http://www.microbeworld.org/
http://www.schoolscience.co.uk/
http://www.sciencenetlinks.org/interactives/germs_resource.html
http://www.foodafactoflife.org.uk/Sheet.aspx?siteId=15§ionId=65&contentId=133
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/science/living_things/microorganisms/play.shtml
GLOW (you will need your username & password)
Information Pack DEVRO Project – Feb 2011
Dairy UK/Dairy UK Scotland / http://www.dairyuk.org/component/option,com_frontpage/Itemid,1/Rowett Institute of Nutrition and Health / http://www.rowett.ac.uk/
Lantra / http://www.lantra.co.uk/
Royal Highland Education Trust / http://www.rhet.org.uk/
Quality Meat Scotland / www.qms.org.uk
SAOS / http://www.saos.co.uk/index.html
Scotch Whisky Association / http://www.scotch-whisky.org.uk/swa/CCC_FirstPage.jsp
Scottish Association of Master Bakers / http://www.samb.co.uk/index.htm
Scottish Federation of Meat Traders / http://www.sfmta.co.uk/
Scottish Fishermen’s Federation / www.sff.co.uk
Scottish Salmon Producers' Organisation (SSPO) / http://www.scottishsalmon.co.uk/default.asp
SCRI / www.scri.ac.uk
Seafish / www.seafish.org
Seafood Scotland / www.seafoodscotland.org
Improve Ltd / http://www.improveltd.co.uk/
Institute of Food Science and Technology / http://www.ifst.org/
British Nutrition Foundation / http://www.nutrition.org.uk/
Scotland Food and Drink / http://www.scotlandfoodanddrink.org/
healthyliving award / http://www.healthylivingaward.co.uk/
Eco Schools Scotland / http://www.ecoschoolsscotland.org/
CETS / http;//www.cets.coop
REHIS / http://www.rehis.com/
Scottish Government / http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Business-Industry/Food-Industry
Information Pack DEVRO Project – Feb 2011
Background Information
Also known as microorganisms, microbes are
tiny, microscopic organisms found throughout
life. Some microbes are disease-causing bacteria.
Bacteria can be found everywhere, including throughout a home, in a number of places, from the bathroom to the kitchen.
Microbes are organisms too small to be seen with the naked eye. There are microbes everywhere. Most microbes are beneficial. It is microbes that turn milk into cheese, make bread rise, and live in the stomach where they help digest food. There are four major categories of microbes: bacteria, viruses, fungi, and protozoa (a type of parasite).
Disease-causing microbes (most people call them “germs”) can be from any of the four categories: bacteria, viruses, fungi, and protozoa.
Disease microbes are spread in different ways. Many of the most common microbes, which cause diseases such as colds, flu, chickenpox, and other childhood illnesses, are airborne. They are spread by coughing and sneezing, or touching an object that the infected person has put in his mouth or sneezed on.
A number of skin diseases are caused by fungus. People often get fungal diseases in sports changing rooms.
Project Checklist
· Assign each member of the group a role.
· Choose the three microbes topics that interest the group.
· Gather information which will help you write your magazine article.
· Read source material and take notes. Be sure to keep track of all the books/internet sites and articles you use.
· Write a title. Be sure your title informs your reader about your topic.
o Write an introduction.
o Be sure your introduction briefly describes your topic and lets the reader know what the rest of the article will be about.
o What do you want your reader to learn or remember from your article?
o Write the magazine article.
o Add drawings/photos….etc to give extra information.
o Once you have finished your topic, be sure to review your writing and check spelling.
· Design and make your front cover.
o You may want to give your magazine a Title.
Information Pack DEVRO Project – Feb 2011