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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