This lesson focuses on how food packages are designed and made. Students will learn three of the main functions of a food package. They will learn what is necessary of the design and materials of a package to keep food clean, protect or aid in the physical and chemical changes that can take place in a food, and identify a food appealingly. Then, in the associated activity, the students will have the opportunity to become packaging engineers by designing and building their own food package for a particular type of food.

Concepts

chemical changes, engineering, marketing, physical changes, physical properties, stem

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Additional Tags

food packaging, packaging engineers, integrated teaching and learning program and laboratory, teachengineering, functions of packaging, physical changes and chemical changes

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)