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
Sorted clothes and laundry Put clothes and detergent in the
detergent washer and start the washer Clean and wet clothes
Wet clothes Put wet clothes in the dryer Clean and dry clothes
Fold and put the clean and dry
Clean and dry clothes clothes away 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
Go to the store to purchase the Eggs, pepper, carrot, salt, milk,
Shopping list items on the shopping list bacon, cheese, cooking oil
Beat all the ingredients, cook the
eggs with cooking oil until the top
surface of the eggs is thickened
and no visible liquid egg remains,
Eggs, pepper, carrot, salt, milk, input the cheese on top of it and
cheese, cooking oil fold it in half Scrambled and cooked eggs
Cook the bacon until crisp with
Bacon cooking oil Cooked bacon

Make Ice Cream

In this challenge activity, you will analyze 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.

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Activity – Analyze a Process

Making Ice Cream

Input Action Output
Go to the store to purchase the White sugar, heavy cream, milk,
Shopping list items on the shopping list vanilla extract
Stir white sugar, heavy cream, and
White sugar, heavy cream, milk milk in a saucepan Mixed cream
Heat the mixture using low heat
until sugar is dissolved and the
mixture turn hot with a small ring of
Mixed cream foam around the edge Heated mixture

Transfer the mixture to a large

container. Stir in vanilla extract.
Chill the mixture for at least two
Heated mixture, vanilla extract hours. Cold mixture
Pour the cold mixture into an ice
cream making machine. Churn the
ice cream according to the
Cold mixture machine directions Ice cream

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