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Semester 1: Food Chain Reaction
Semester 1: Food Chain Reaction
Wicked Food Project
Wicked Food Project
This project gave us a choice of what assignment we wanted to do from the book Wicked Arts Assignment, which we then had to connect to our humanities topic of food. I chose the project Empty Your BIC, where we had seven days to use all the ink of a BIC pen. I did this by hand-drawing ultra-processed foods and food company CEO's faces rotting and compiling them into an animation as a metaphor for how bad the quality of the food is. More Info Here
Farm to Table Wheel
Farm to Table Wheel
Physics. In this project, we researched the farm-to-table process for string cheese. This was a group project that helped teach us about the sourcing and transportation of food. Each group had each student complete a different quarter of the wheel, with the group roles being Farm (how the food is produced), Money (how much the process costs), Transport (how far it has to travel to reach us), and Table (how it is prepared). I did this project with Gabby (Farm), Padwa (Money), and Charlie (Transport). We each did research on our group roles with our food being string cheese, then calculated how many joules the process took and translated that into how many spins a jug can go around the wheel to be the same amount of energy, which was 174,237,623 Joules, and __ spins.
Desmos Self Portait + Annotations
Desmos Self Portait + Annotations
In Math, we did a project called the Desmos Self Portrait, where we made a self portait using a graphing calculator called Desmos. We traced over a picture of ourself with lines we used formulas like y=mx+b, (x-h)^2 + (y-k)^2 = r^2, and y=a(x-h)^2 + k to put lines onto the graph. Each line is a different equation, which the axis bounds are then cut to make it within a certain area on the graph.
Recipe Poster Camila made:
Recipe Poster I made:
Partner Visual Recipe
Partner Visual Recipe
In this assignment, we were able to pick another person to work with, who we would then share a story we have about food. We shared our stories with eachother, then made recipes of the food from the other person's food stories inspired by design of the recipe illustrations from the graphic novel, Relish: My Life in the Kitchen. I drew the visual recipe for Camila's Pozole.
Partner Food Machine Blueprint
Partner Food Machine Blueprint
This project was another group project with Camila, using the same food story from the Visual Recipe project, but now making a blueprint for a Rube Goldberg Machine that represents both our stories. Our blueprint shows lego stairs leading a marble down and past the spatula from my story and the spoon from Camila's story, then hitting dominoes that lead to two different tables, one of them being Camila's table with pozole at it, and the other being mine with eggy in a bready at it. This is to represent both of our stories of going to eat food with family.
In Humanities, we wrote a letter addressed to the act of reading as if it was a person. This was a project called the Dear Reading Letter. We did this to reflect on our relationship with reading and literature, and to test our skills in writing. This consisted of a couple weeks of writing a first draft, then a second draft on a google document.
In Physics, we made a poster where we studied the unpredictability of different things. My partner in this project was Gabby, we chose to study the unpredictability of Political Collapse, and if it's unpredictability makes it beautiful or disastrous. We decided that because of how this can cause a lot of harm from something small influencing an eventual governmental collapse, political collapse is disastrous.
In Math, we made an Identity card. This had information about ourselves, then our answers to quantitative questions about our lives, which we would then compare with our class's answers and make mathematical graphs of including a pie chart, bar graph, and line graph. I chose to use quantitative data about how many siblings I have, how many hours I listen to music daily, how many hours I spend on personal projects, and my learning style.
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