IB Inquiry, Now and Then. Making butter

We watched a video about how people used to make butter with a butter churn. Here's the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaXjq9Qf4z8 There's no sound, so I kinda narrated it as we watched.

The children drew pictures of farmers, milk in pails, and wooden butter churns.

We then watched a video about how butter is made now with machines. Here's the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHl_pHjT3d I skipped a bit of it and focused on the machine that mixed the milk, and the packaging machine.

The children then drew pictures of the machines we saw and the farmer.

You can see their drawings up on the wall at CM.

The next day we made our own butter.
We poured some whipped cream into two containers.


Then we started our shaking the jars. We stood in a circle and danced and moved our bodies while we listened to upbeat music. We did about 20 minutes of shaking. Our arms were really tired! I had prepared 6 songs to dance to that all had a 'shake shake' theme. I think that helped us have lots of energy to shake the cream. 










In the end, we had butter!







We had some yummy Italian bread to spread our homemade butter onto.



I asked the children what it tasted like.
"creamy"
"buttery" 
"yummy"
"squishy"
"so good"

Our butter looked so yummy, other groups wanted to try some. So we shared with everyone. 






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