ER GCE Portfolio

 During this unit, morosely titled 'Death'  of our Food For Thought class we looked into the past to see how food and and food production had its negative effects on the world.  We explored things like the Irish potato famine, slavery, wage slavery, and even more recent topics like baby formula shortages and industrial farming.  For this unit we made our own model version of a UN position paper that focused on SDG 2 zero hunger. We all chose our own target to report on, I chose SDG 2.4 - ensure sustainable food production systems. Here's my video on how we can start making agriculture more sustainable. Script: Did you know agriculture is responsible for 10 to 24 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. Ironically, according to the University of California, agriculture is also quite sensitive to the changing climate that has followed. The target of SDG 2.4 is to ensure sustainable food production systems. This target's focus is on the farming techniques used b...

    During our second unit of our Food class titled Sauté where we talked about math concepts like logarithms, proportions, and more graphing we simultaneously took on the question of what makes us human? We learned about the food hypothesis. The idea that human brains evolved with the help of cooking and denaturing our food. Through this process its believed that people got access to more of the nutrients our brains need allowing for us to become smarter, walk on two feet, and become less ape-like. This unit we learned about leavening and how humans learned to use this. We talked about the various things involved in chemical and biochemical leavening. We even tested to see what would happen if we substituted the ingredients necessary for this reaction with something similar. For example we swapped out the eggs in brownies for flax seed or yogurt (independent variable). We did this to try different emulsifiers to see if it will still leaven(Dependent variable). Another t...

Welcome to this units AP - the quitapena doll. This unit we worked on topics such as colors, clothes, and new verb conjugations including things like o-ue and i-ie. We also furthered our investigation into Spanish food and culture. This is where the idea for the quitapena doll comes in. The quitapena doll or the "worry doll" is a small handmade doll originating from Guatemala. It's purpose is to give you something to whisper your worries to. In this action project we made our own! E.R, quick sketch of quitapena doll, 2022 E.R., quitapena doll, 2022 La muneca quitapena lleva una toga roja y zapatos azules y rojos Juega baloncesto come tacos limpia el piso escribe libros prefiere dormir esta cansado, nerviouso. La quitapena no esta cansado y nerviouso. This project was more fun than the others since most of the time spent on it went towards the making of the quitapena doll meaning I got to do less writing. It was, on the other hand, difficult to do the conjugations we ju...