STEAM Lip Balm Lesson Plan Slides in White

STEAM Lip Balm Lesson Plan Slides in White are for Students Slides in Yellow are for Teachers Notes under slides are for both

Balmy Polymer Prototypes G Yakman Fall 2009 nataliedee. com

Why Lip Balm? Sustainability • buy local & organic – support bee keepers • Less shipping to fill a need Entrepreneur skills • develop specific product based on research & design loop • create and maintain a team-based small startup company with real-life competition & consumers

Instructions • Follow the word document and power point instructions • All slides must have a picture – you must replace mine! – you may take photos or get them off the internet – you must reference pictures that you take or get – who took it or what site did it come from • ** if there is more than one question on the slide, break it into multiple slides, each must have an original picture • Your team must engineer (research, develop) and market your product based on target market survey results • Each team member needs to be a leader of one or more part of the process • Each team member must participate in each stage – put names by questions that each person answered – more than one name okay

Developing Lip Balm Products Steps: 1. Research 2. Target Market 3. Brainstorming 4. Prototype Recipe 5. Process 6. Cost Analysis 7. Marketing http: //carriesweetlife. blogspot. com/ - corndog lip balm

Team Members & Primary Responsibilities Topic Skill Strength Needed Research: Organization, LA Science Scientific, Natural Social Studies Social & Technological Language Arts/Music Word & Music PE Kinesthetic Target Market Logic & Math Brainstorming Engineering & Social Arts Prototype Technology, Math, Engineering Cost Analysis Math Marketing Artistic Logo Fine Art Slogan Media Writing Label Technical Writing & Layout Magazine Ad / Billboard Layout Jingle Music Commercial Videography & Media Writing Student Leader

Lip Balm Products Business Plans 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Research Target Market - unisex Brainstorming Prototype Recipe Process - produce a sellable batch of tubes of lip balm 6. Cost Analysis 7. Marketing - logo, accurate and legal labels, a shipping and display box, a print ad and a television commercial http: //planetmillie. com/2012/08/lots-and-lots-of-lip-balms/

Technology & Engineering Research • What is out on the market currently in this category? – What variations are offered? – What is the packaging like? • What supplies do you need? – Find a variety of recipes • at least one per team-mate • What are packaging options – What are the benefits and drawbacks of each? http: //sweetlemonmag. com/beauty/five-stellar-lip-balms-on-a-budget/

Social Studies Research Insert Relevant Picture When invented? When commercialized? Where factories? Who uses it? Where is it found/sold? Is there overall customer satisfaction with the current industry? • Is there room for industry growth? • • •

Science Research • What is lip balm made of? • What are the common categories of supplies? • What specific supplies do most recipes have in common? • What are the supplies that seem to vary most? • Where do the supplies come from?

Language Arts / Music Research • Technical Writing – How do others say to make it • Media Writing – How do other companies advertise it • Jingles – What is a jingle for another lip balm company http: //www. hottopic. com/hottopic/Hot+Topic+Foundation+Music++Life+Pomegranate+Lip+Balm-907223. jsp

Physical Ed / Health Research • Athletes & Outdoor Careers – (ex: archaeologist) • Health factor ingredients - medicinal http: //www. gracepromotion. biz/images/products/2010111233555964 w 1000 h 1000 uswallow/flavour-lip-balm-sports-lip-balm. jpg

Math Research • What are current prices of various lip balms? • (at least one type per group member) http: //lifestyle. allwomenstalk. com/handy-tips-that-youve-probably-never-heard-of/10/

Target Market Decide who your target market is and explain why Develop a survey to find out what they will prefer for : • colors • qualities • flavors • packaging styles • and what they will pay for it? tvguide. com

Survey 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Comments: Students create 10 questions surveys here, but then give them all a standard survey to use so that there is more consistency in their results. See teacher documents for the recommended survey.

Survey Results Each student should collect 10 surveys from people in their target market, all students should work together to tally the results and report them here. http: //cargocollective. com/brittanys_portfolio/Lip-Balm-Infographic http: //www. statista. com/statistics/195299/leading-us-lip-balm-brands-in-2012 -and-2013 -based-on-

Example Recipes Each team member should find an individual recipe. Pic by Georgette Yakman

Recipe Commons • What are the common CATEGORIES of supplies? • What SPECIFIC SUPPLIES do most recipes have in common? • What are the supplies that seem to vary most?

Brainstorming Based on the results of your research and survey, brainstorm combinations that your group would like to propose as a viable product. blog. composters. com

Prototype Recipe The individual recipes should be evaluated to come up with a simple base recipe. http: //4. bp. blogspot. com/-87 Lx 9 w 3 ODww/UPS 9 MOO-Z 9 I/AAAAHe. U/FCwhu 4 V 6 tfs/s 640/DIY+Lip+Balm+1. png

Prototype Process • Write as a flow chart

Product Proposal What & Why • Engineering • This is where students justify their choices for recipe, flavor & marketing ideas in relation to their target market. http: //planetmillie. com/2012/08/lots-and-lots-of-lip-balms/

Cost Analysis • How much does everything cost for a single batch – include labor time • How many batches can be made in a day? • In a week? • How much do you think you can sell them for? newworldgeek. com

Budget Analysis Each student should complete one line of this, so that all the students do the same math, but for different ingredients. BULK COST PRICE FOR A PRICE PER TUBE BATCH OF 50 GENERAL SPECIFIC TYPE USED WAX (approx. (EX: BEADED BEESWAX) (approx. 3. 15 oz. per batch) OIL (EX: OLIVE OR GRAPESEED OIL) (approx. 3. 15 oz. per batch) BUTTER (EX: SHEA BUTTER) (approx. 3. 15 oz. per batch) FLAVOR MEDICINE CONTAINER SEAL (OPTIONAL) TOTALS WITHOUT OVERHEAD (approx. ½ tsp. / batch)

Cost Results • Small Batch • What is the profit per tube after taking out for ‘labor/overhead’ costs? http: //happymoneysaver. com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/burts-bees-recipe 1. jpg

Make Product Equipment needed: • Clean surface • Gloves for everyone – ideally face masks and hair nets too • Sterile containers for measuring processing • Sterile spoons for measuring & stirring • 2 cup pyrex cup • Microwave All the ingredients go into the cup and put in the • Cutter for students with block wax microwave for 2 mins, stir and put in the microwave • Tube filler & spatula in 30 sec. spurts until all • Tubes & caps the ingredients are melted. DO NOT BOIL!

Test Batch • After melting, drop a few drops of the mixture onto some waxed paper & after it cools in about 3 minutes, have the team try it and decide if it’s the right consistency • Put in photo and each person’s opinion and overall decision to correct or not Member 1 Member 2 Member 3 Member 4 Member 5 Consensus more or less Wax Oil Butter Flavoring Medicinal

Prototype Correction • What things were good about it? • What things need to be improved? • What do you think you need to do to improve them? • Did your theory of correction work? mathfashionista. com

Process Correction • • Materials and Supplies Analysis Did you have what you needed? Did you follow the directions? What changes would you make next time? newworldgeek. com

Final Recipe • Did you change your recipe? If so, put the corrected version here. If not, copy the original version here. http: //www. auroma. com. au/recipes-1/

Final Process • Did you change your process from the directions you first made? If so, put the corrected version here. If not, copy the original version here. Pic by Georgette Yakman

Basic Marketing • Label • Print Ad http: //cooljustice. blogspot. com/2009/02/krayeske-calhoun-economic-summit. htm

Sticker-Style Commercial Labels • Design your label. • Use the commercial template. • Print them. • Roll them on the tubes so that the sticker seals them closed. http: //www. onlinelabels. com/Templates/OL 1102 -template-microsoft-word. htm

Labels • Design your label. – (1 ½” x 2”) • • • Print them. Cut them. Put them on the tape. Roll the tape on the tube. Seal the tubes.

Label Examples

Advanced Marketing • Packaging • Video Commercial • Selling kristy-tom. com https: //www. elementsbathandbody. com/15 -oz-Natural-Lip-Tube-WITH-CAP-pr-375. h

Technology & Engineering Extensions 3 D-Printer Extension • Start a fad of kids personally designing custom lip-balm cases with refillable stations of their favorite flavor. • Design and build machine that melts and dispenses of the product.

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