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Columbian Exchange Cooking Project
Columbian Exchange Cooking Project
The Columbian Exchange was an interaction between Europe, North American colonists, and Africa. It was the intentional and unintentional exchange of plants, animals, religion, and diseases. From one hemisphere to another. It killed millions of native Americans that had no immunity to the European diseases and 12 ½ million enslaved Africans (1525 - 1866). In our cooking project we were tasked with researching and gathering grocery food items from both hemispheres. We were also allowed to trade/barter amongst other hemispheres to allow us to better understand trade. This project served as a hands-on learning experience that better helped me understand what foods were native to each hemisphere and how monumental the Columbian exchange was to this time period. My group was assigned to the Eastern Hemisphere. We used sugar and bananas to cook caramelized bananas, and we used oats to make oatmeal. We added orange slices and honey to our banana oatmeal. .
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Ancient Civilizations PBL
Ancient Civilizations PBL
In World History class, we included multiple STEAM components in our 10th grade Ancient Civilizations PBL. We learned about several different ancient civilizations such as Ancient Mesopotamia, ancient Egypt, ancient China, and the Indus river valley civilization. We used engineering when constructing our bamboo structures, we tied them together with twine and carefully balanced each piece of bamboo to make a sturdy shelter. We also created bricks with a mixture from Ancient times, we dug red clay and combined it with hay and water. We combined the mixture with our feet and then molded it into ancient brick molds and left them in the sun to dry. This is the method they used in ancient times to create houses and other structures. In Spanish we created a poster explaining one of the 4 civilizations, we explained religion, language, location, and agriculture. We wrote the entire poster in spanish and learned multiple Ancient Civilizations vocabulary words in spanish.
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