During the begging of the second semester in humanities we did many MUN's , Mock United Nations. Our final product was to create a plan to help food security for our country. My country was Mali which is a third world country.
:http://www.wfp.org/countries/mali This article above was the most useful article because it was all about Mali and how they help Mali with there food crisis. WTP is the biggest food organization in the world. I found this website when I was searching food security of Mali. I learned that many countries all help Mali. Our final product was a paper about what stand your country is on about the food crisis. My paper talked about how Mali relays on other countries and leaders for basically everything, including money, food, minerals, and other things like that. This project really made me think that we are very lucky and fortunate to live in the states and have a great life. It also made me think how much money we are giving to the pour countries, which is a lot and still doesn't help them enough, its crazy. I probably try to fundraise more than just right about it. I would like to do something instead of just talking about it. A moment in this project where I got lost was when we talked about GMOS and other chemicals. Its are for me to understand all the science behind it. |
In humanities we made a poster for our HTH farmers market. My poster was about how climate change effects farming and the food system. We used Photoshop to create our very nice posters, also some people used Add to dictionary.
A helpful website was CNN because they talk about climate change a lot. There articles were easy to read plus they had videos. The videos were most helpful because I could what was actually going on. The videos really made me interested in my topic about climate change. If I would change how my poster looked I would probably change the font. There was two different kinds of font on the poster which I should have only used one. It sort of looks a little messy because of that. I would also change the color scheme too to relate it to climate change and farming. I'm most proud of my Photoshop skills. I was proud because I created a whole template for my whole class by myself. The template was for the poster on Photoshop if they didn't use piktochart. I am also proud overall on how my poster came out, it was simple, clean, and effective. I wouldn't really change this mini project, because I really liked how it came out. We made awesome poster with tons of information and facts that engage the reader. Maybe I would recommend more critique sessions next time. The "golden moment" of creating the poster was when we displayed them at the HTH farmers market. We were able to inform new HTH families about how climate change effects how we eat and live. It was a great experience and a fun one to teach people. |
In the HTH farmers market project our requirement was to create a product that we could sell. In the begging our group wanted to make a creative drink out of flavored ice cubes. But we ran in to problems and decided to go with something different. We decided to make chocolate truffles.
Our most useful source was tasty videos on YouTube. We started looking at Tasty videos to get some ideas and stumbled across chocolate truffles. Only one of us had tried truffles before, but they looked so delicious, that we ran to Vons, got the ingredients, and made them. Tasty videos really made the truffles so good so we decided to do it. We had a texture problem in the begging where the texture was very rough and weird. But once we added less chocolate chips it was smooth creamy and rich they were great. It changed the whole experience of eating the truffle. I was most proud of making more then what we spent to make them. We sold one truffle for a 1.50 and three truffles for 3.50 which was a great profit. We made around 100 dollars and maybe only spent 40 dollars. I probably would try to create a simple company in the begging instead of changing last minute and creating a decent company for our market. I really would plan a simple product and research before the project to really be prepared. My golden moment was when we more then what we spent to make them. We sold one truffle for a 1.50 and three truffles for 3.50 which was a great profit. We made around 100 dollars and maybe only spent 40 dollars. |
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In Spanish we had to make a cooking video in Spanish. The food most of been a family recipe and had to be in Spanish. I made a cookie pie/cake which I grew up eating since I could remember. It is a chocolate chip pie/cake which is baked in a oven in a pie pan.
The most useful resource was my moms recipe on how you make this great pie/cake. The recipe looked really old and rustic. The page was faded and was stained all over. The recipe was very simple and easy to read and cook. The recipe didn't say how long to cook the pie so my first pie was way over burnt and horrible. After a few try's I got the temperature and timing perfect I also improved on my Spanish and how I cooked. I was most proud of my video skills and how I edited my video. It was really hard to record your self while cooking, I was proud that I was able to do it. I also really enjoyed editing my film It was really easy and great. I would of probably changed my food that I cooked. Because as it was a Spanish class project I should have cooked something Spanish or Mexican. Next time I would cook carne asada love that stuff. The golden moment of this project was when I got to share my video in front of the whole class. I really enjoy showing my work. During the video you also give out samples to all the classmates which was really cool. Because they really liked my dish. |
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After creating our cooking videos for Spanish class, Sofia our Spanish teacher wanted to make a cook book including all of ours family recipe. So we did, we got on google drive used the template given to us and created our recipe pages.
The most helpful resource to create my recipe page was The most useful resource was my moms recipe on how you make this great pie/cake. The recipe looked really old and rustic. The page was faded and was stained all over. The recipe was very simple and easy to read and cook. I improved my recipe page by doing several critique sessions with peers and my teacher Sofia. They really helped me on how my page looked. My peers helped me create a page that was in the guide lines and was great. I was most proud of showing my recipe. Because it is such a old rustic dessert that most likely everybody loves. It felt good showing people how to make a awesome recipe easily and cheaply. I would probably take better pictures of my product so my page would look nicer and more pleasing. If I had a good picture it would be so much nicer. I would think that also my people would read it if the picture looked nice. The best part of this project was the end. It was a lot of work for basically nothing. We didn't have enough time to print out the book or show it to our guests. |
In the begging of the project we went to a near by market. It was called Liberty Public market. It was very nice and pretty, It had great food and had a awesome vibe. This market was right next to our school which was great because it was easy to get ideas for out HTH farmers market project.
The best resource was this French place inside the market. They made many dessert from cream puffs to truffles. Over course we asked them about truffles and how we should make them. The gave us some tips and tricks to make truffles. If I was to improve my product and ideas I would've probably go to market more than once for help and even more Ideas. This would've helped me a lot more, it could've helped my pricing, my display, and of course my product. I was most proud of making a very fancy French desert. The French dessert place in LPM was very impressed that high schoolers were making truffles. I was proud that we were doing something special and hard. It really felt good to take this challenge. I would've probably go there more often so could help me with my pricing, my display, and of course my product. If I did that we probably would've made our product pretty much perfect. The best part of the market was getting to buy all this really high end food. I even bough mint infused coffee isn't that crazy?!?! Yes it was amazing. I found many other places I want to try in the near future. Including : crepes, stuffed burgers, and some tai place. |