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Who’s The Best
For our math and baseball course 162 we had to create a scouting report summarizing our investigation of five players. The purpose of this project was to use statistics to understand the overall value of baseball players. During this project I learned a lot about Clay Buchholz who is one of the five pitchers I was researching during this project. [...]
Written on May 16, 2013 at 4:39 pm
Categories: 162
Capturing Reality
Four our Food For thought course we had to create a food review. The purpose of this project was to test whether there is difference in taste between organic/fresh and processed food. Me and my partner, MY chose to review fried chicken because we thought it would be a easy dish to purchase and make. After analyzing the fried chicken so [...]
Written on May 13, 2013 at 4:36 pm
Categories: Food for Thought
Testing Leavening Agents
For our Eat course our unit two action project was to create a lab report. We did this to explore the different chemical reactions of food. We made cupcakes and learned how to substitute an important missing ingredient, baking soda, we did this by learning how to create a new leavening agent. Below you’ll see the results in my lab report; [...]
Written on May 13, 2013 at 3:17 am
Categories: Eat
Noah Vs Robinson
For our 162 math and baseball course we had to compare two athletes. I picked Nate Robinson and Joakim Noah who are both NBA athletes on the Chicago Bulls. During this unit we spent a lot of time learning how to use and make graphs. We also interviewed a minor league baseball player; Joe Perona. I [...]
Written on April 29, 2013 at 2:07 am
Categories: 162
The Life of a Chicken
For our Food for Thought course we had to demonstrate the inner workings of our global food system by tracking one food through its distribution chain. My food was chickens, more specifically factory farmed chickens. In order to do this project I had to research articles about factory farmed chickens. During this project I learned a ton about chickens and [...]
Written on April 26, 2013 at 11:16 am
Categories: Food for Thought
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