The document discusses the jobs of farmers, producers, transporters, and distributors in the food supply chain. It describes the inventions of several students to help make parts of each job easier. For farmers, inventions included machines to detect illness in animals. For producers, inventions automated baking and packaging processes. For transporters, inventions helped with delivery and carrying items. For distributors, inventions proposed faster meat wrapping and labeling.

1. The Farm to Market Challenge Thinking and Problem Solving Together... Mr. Nakano’s Class IRC Challenge 2007

2. The Farmers

3. WHAT is the most important job a Farmer does each day? The Farmer makes sure the animals are not sick.

4. WHY ? Does your team think this job is important? This job is important because the animals could get so sick that they could die.

5. HOW does the Farmer do this job? The Farmer does this job by calling a vet to check if they are not sick.

6. Our Inventions

10. WHICH part of this job can be changed to make the work easier? Katerine’s Farm Hospital

11. The Producers

12. WHAT is the most important job a Producer does each day? The Producer makes the things for consumers to buy.

13. WHY ? Does your team think this job is important? This job is important so we could sit on chairs, write on tables, or eat different foods. We wouldn’t have the materials we needed.

14. HOW does the Producer do this job? The Producer does this job by using machines and inventions that other people made.

20. The Transporters

21. WHAT is the most important job a Transporters does each day? The Transporter delivers food for the Producers and Distributors.

22. WHY ? Does your team think this job is important? This job is important because if Transporters didn’t do their job, the Producer wouldn’t make the food and the Distributor won’t sell food.

23. HOW does the Transporter do this job? The Transporter does this job by using vehicles to load things on the vehicles and then they deliver.

28. The Distributors

29. WHAT is the most important job a Distributor does each day? The Distributor’s most important job is to wrap meat.

30. WHY ? Does your team think this job is important? This job is important because if the meat gets dirty, the people who eat the meat will get sick. The meat can have germs on it.

31. HOW does the Distributor do this job? The Distributor does this job by putting the meat in a machine. The machine will get the wrapping then get the label.