Food and drink franchising has become commonplace on many school campuses. Whether the franchise be a certain brand soda pop machine or pizza place, they make lots of money for these parent companies. Franchise competition for a share of these school campuses is big business. Use the Scientific Method to answer the title question "What is the favorite soft drink on your campus?" What softdrink/sodapop franchises or machines are on your campus?Survey the students to find out the favorite softdrink on your campus.During a noon period inventory, how many softdrinks of each flavor are sold?Calculate the amount of money and profit that the franchise made in the one noon period. Compare the amount of soda pop consumed to the volume of a structure in your community. With data from other schools, conclusions can be drawn about which softdrink franchise holds the largest share of the market on school campuses in certain regions and which soft drinks are the most popular in different regions and where competing parent franchise companies need to focus their advertising campaigns.Survey: Different regions of the United States and other countries have unique terms for softdrinks. What are they called in your region? ( sodapop, pop, soda, softdrink, Coke, other _____________)
1.Which Soft drink company has the largest share of the soda pop market in your community?2.List three reasons why this company has the largest share of the market in your community.3.Are any patterns visible on the plotted map of soft drink brand marketing ? Describe the findings.4.Why is " soda pop sales" big business ?
Based upon the noon period data of amount of vending machine soda pop sold, what would be the annual income from the school's soda pop sales for the soft drink company?
How many liters of soda pop was consumed during the noon period?Using the noon data, how many liters of soda pop would be consumed in a year?
1.If a container were constructed to hold the volume of soda pop consumed during the noon period for one year, what would be the dimensions in cubic meters of that container? 2. What structure in your community has a volume or cubic meter dimensions comparable to the container to hold the volume of soda pop consumed?
Scientific Method - Solve a problem by using the scientific method.
Resources
Internet
Research the Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola Webpages
Map of city or Digital Atlas
Phone book
Look in the yellow pages to find the locations of fast food establishments, grocery stores etc.
1. Count how many sodapop machines are on campus and record which sodapop franchise(Coca-cola, Pepsi etc) that they belong.2. Research and answer the question "What soda pop flavors or brands does the Coca-Cola company produce?"3. Research and answer the question "What soda pop flavors or brands does the Pepsi-Cola company produce?"
1. Create a hypothesis to the question "Which Soda Pop Flavor Is Most Popular ?"2. Create a survey listing the different soft drinks/soda pop flavors available on campus.(This survey refers only to soft drinks in pop machines on campus) 3. Create a survey that asks which products do they like best: Coca-cola or Pepesi? (This survey refers to soft drinks available anywhere.) 4.Survey the students to find which is the most popular, available sodapop/soft drink on campus.5. Tally results of the most popular sodapop survey.6. Survey students to find out if they which they like the best: Pepsi products or Coca-cola products. Tally the results.7. Create a bar graph of the sodapop flavor survey results.8. Create a bar graph of Pepsi vs Coca-cola favorite.
1.During noon period, station two people at each sodapop machine to record how many of each soft drink flavor is purchased .(Prior to noon period experiment, students will need to create an appropiate data sheet to make the process of identifying and counting soda pop be effective and valid.)2. Tally the results from all soda pop machines. 3. Create a bar graph of the results.4. Calculate the amount of money earned by product's franchise during the noon period. Record the amount.5. Calculate in liters the amount of soda pop consumed during one noon period. 6. Examine results to conclude whether your hypothesis was supported or not supported by the data. 7. Identify the independent variable in this experiment.8. Identify the dependent variable in this experiment.
1. From the telephone book create a listing of the fast food establishments and their addresses.1. Create a hypothesis to answer the problem question "Do You Live in PepsiTown or Coca-Cola City?" 3. Test the hypothesis. a) From the telephone book create a listing of the fast food establishments and their addresses. b) Visit the fast food establishments in your community.c)Observe and record which softdrink company products they serve.
1.Patrol the city in all directions and be on the look out for soda pop vending machines. 2. Record the product's brand and location of the machine.
1.Use the digital atlas to create a map of your town.2.Plot the location of each sodapop vending machine and fast food establishment where softdrinks are served.3.Create an appropiate legend to distinguish between soda pop vending machine and fast food establishment and identify the location as Coca-Cola products or Pepsi products.
1.Analyze the plotted soda pop information on the map.2.Look for patterns in the data.3.Draw conclusions about the marketing share distribution and possible advertising markets.
Observe the soda pop displays in grocery stores.Which brand is more prominently displayed in the grocery store?
Students should work in groups to gather community data.
Duration: Data collection will occur during noon period and after school.Class time: 2-3 fifty minute class periods
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