1.1.3.8 Lab - Analyze a Process

Lab – Analyze a Process Objective In this activity, you will analyze processes evident in routine personal activities by

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Lab – Analyze a Process Objective In this activity, you will analyze processes evident in routine personal activities by drawing the relationships between inputs, actions, and outputs.

Background/Scenario A process is a collection of input, action, and output that achieves specific results. In this activity, you will review some of your routine personal activities and determine the process to accomplish these activities. You will provide the inputs, actions, and outputs for some of the routine daily activities, such as driving a car, as mentioned earlier.

Laundry View the task of washing your clothes as a process with inputs, actions, and outputs.

Laundry Input

Action

Output

Dirty clothes

Sort them by color

Sorted clothes

Sorted clothes and laundry detergent

Put clothes and detergent in the washer and start the washer

Clean and wet clothes

Wet clothes

Put wet clothes in the dryer

Clean and dry clothes

Clean and dry clothes

Fold and put the clean and dry clothes away

Clean laundry

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Activity – Analyze a Process

Make a Simple Breakfast View the task of making breakfast as a process with inputs, actions, and outputs. Fill in the empty fields with the appropriate input, action, or output.

Make a Simple Breakfast Input

Action

Output

Shopping list

Go to the store to purchase the items on the shopping list

Eggs, pepper, carrot, salt, milk, bacon, cheese, cooking oil

Eggs, pepper, carrot, salt, milk, cheese, cooking oil

Beat all the ingredients, cook the eggs with cooking oil until the top surface of the eggs is thickened and no visible liquid egg remains, input the cheese on top of it and fold it in half

Scrambled and cooked eggs

Bacon

Cook the bacon until crisp with cooking oil

Cooked bacon

Make Ice Cream In this challenge activity, you will analyze the numbered steps to make vanilla ice cream and translate them into inputs, actions, and outputs. Instructions to make vanilla ice cream: 1. Stir white sugar, heavy cream, and milk in a saucepan. Heat the mixture using low heat until the sugar is dissolved. Continue to heat until the mixture is hot, and a small ring of foam forms around the edge. 2. Transfer the mixture to a large container. Stir in vanilla extract. Chill the mixture for at least two hours. 3. Pour the cold mixture into an ice cream making machine. Churn the ice cream according to the machine directions. 4. When ready, serve the ice cream.

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Activity – Analyze a Process

Making Ice Cream Input

Action

Output

Shopping list

Go to the store to purchase the items on the shopping list

White sugar, heavy cream, milk, vanilla extract

White sugar, heavy cream, milk

Stir white sugar, heavy cream, and milk in a saucepan

Mixed cream

Mixed cream

Heat the mixture using low heat until sugar is dissolved and the mixture turn hot with a small ring of foam around the edge

Heated mixture

Heated mixture, vanilla extract

Transfer the mixture to a large container. Stir in vanilla extract. Chill the mixture for at least two hours.

Cold mixture

Cold mixture

Pour the cold mixture into an ice cream making machine. Churn the ice cream according to the machine directions

Ice cream

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