Tartu International School Goes Green

This spring preschool has been talking about different professions.  Also taking a closer look at professions we don't see in everyday life, but we come daily in contact with their products or services.  That is why we decided to visit the Food and Technology Faculty of  Estonian University of Life Sciences. On a snowy Wednesday morning, our preschool group took the bus to meet Andres, a researcher of food science and technology.  We did the necessary preparations, such as changing shoes, washing our hands thoroughly, to enter the research laboratory.  At first, we got to do some practical activity- we made butter. Andres told us about the process: what we need to make it, how to make it and how and why the cream turns into butter. Everyone got a little cup to fill with cream. Then we all changed into “butter making machines” by shaking the cup until the cream turned into butter. It was not very easy, the cup needed shaking rather hard and it took time until the buttermilk rose hig