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Students will learn about the history of pizza, the ingredients used to make pizza, food processing and chemistry, hot topics of interest, and nutritional composition. Along with component quizzes, nutritional tables, and an interactive game, a unique feature of the CD-ROM is that the student can tailor the learning experience using the Hemispheric Mode Indicator (HMI) configurator for right-brain or left-brain presentation. |
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| The configurator program (left panel) to determine left brain (middle panel) or right brain (right panel) learning preference for the user in The Pizza Explorer. | ||
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| Interactive quiz (left panel), game (middle panel), and help screen for integrative learning (right panel) activities for The Pizza Explorer. | ||
The educational project is designed to teach students about the field of functional foods with a primary focus on plant phytochemicals. The interfaces provide engaging learning activities for students to understand the chemistry, analysis, biochemistry, and health aspects of phytochemicals. Students
will discover the plant sources and chemical structures of the phytochemicals from the world interface, explore the biochemical pathways in a plant cell, study the effects of phytochemicals on tissues and organs to reduce chronic disease risk in the body, and learn how the phytochemicals are measured in a tutorial on chromatography. The project is funded by a grant from the USDA Higher Education program.
A group of students from the Department Of Computer Graphics Technology tested new interface designs for their CGT 411 class project. They were led by Dr. Bruce Watkins and Kevin Hamstra from the Food Science Department.
Eryn Cech, Jackie Gu, Jessica Vance, Joe Bunch
The IFT Pizza Explorer CD-ROM was created to teach students food science and the chemistry of food components in conjunction with the Food Chemistry Experiment Book. Utilizing interactive, hands-on activities, the program was designed for students in middle and high school to facilitate the learning of food science, chemistry, and biology. The educational tool uses pizza as a model to teach various aspects of science, allowing students to explore the pizza components with the assistance of the great guide "P.O.P." (Peter Oliver Pizzaro). 
