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 and laundry Put clothes and detergent in the
detergent washer and start the washer
Wet clothes Put wet clothes in the dryer
Clean and dry clothes Fold and put the clean and dry
clothes away
Sorted clothes
Clean and wet clothes
Clean and dry clothes
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 Oil, eggs, carrots, milk, bacon,
items on the shopping list seasonings
Oil, eggs, carrots, milk, bacon, Beat all the ingredients, cook Scrambled and cooked eggs
seasonings the eggs with cooking oil
Bacon Cook the bacon Cooked bacon

Make Ice Cream

In this challenge activity, you will analyse 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.

Making Ice Cream

Input Action Output

Shopping list Go to the store to purchase the White sugar, heavy cream,
items on the shopping list milk, vanilla extract
White sugar, heavy cream, milk Stir white sugar, heavy cream, Mixed cream
and milk in a saucepan
Mixed cream Heat the mixture using low heat Heated mixture
until is dissolve
Heated mixture, vanilla extract Transfer the mixture to a large Cold Mixture
container. Stir in vanilla extract.
Chill the mixture for at least two
hours
Cold mixture Pour the cold mixture into an ice Ice cream
cream making machine. Churn
the ice cream according to the
machine directions.

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