Tag Archives: GCE High school

THEY GOT THE DOLLAR

In our 162 course, we have been learning about how much players are truly worth. I have been tracking five baseball players’ performances and researched their yearly salaries. The purpose of this action project was to use statistics to comprehend the overall value of a baseball player. I enjoyed tracking the overall performance of my five players. [...]

Who’s the Best Buy?

For our math and baseball course 162 we had to create a scouting report showing 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 baseball  and how most of the time it is not fair with players [...]

162: Scouting Pitchers

For our third action project for the 162 course, we were given 5 baseball players for each student to investigate. The investigation was for us to understand what we need to look at when scouting players. The purpose of this action project was to to look and use statistics to understand the overall value of [...]

Leavening

For my Food Redux course, we were assigned to do an experiment testing which substituted ingredients will cause cupcakes to have an higher height. The purpose of this action project was to use our knowledge in chemistry to substitute a leavening agent. Below is a PDF file of my scientific paper, with details about our experiment: GN-EAT-AP2-Lab-Report [...]

Policy: Infograph on the U.S. Nuclear Program

This unit in Policy we looked at infographs, and how effective they can be when it comes to communicating information to a large demographic. What I’ve learned about infographs is that they are key to data comprehension– no matter what language you speak, where you are from, or how educated you are, infographs transcend the [...]

Flip n’ Flop

For my 162 course, we were assigned to create a presentation comparing two athletes. The purpose of this action project was to further our understanding of statistics.

Sweet and sour, its sugar

For our Fought for Thought course, we were assigned to Researched the distribution chain of a specific food of our choosing, presented our finding in a Prezi presentation, and writing a reflection. The purpose of this action project is to demonstrate our knowledge of our global food system, by tracking the distribution chain of a specific [...]

How does your tea get to you?

In our Food For Thought course we just finished researching our chosen ingredient; mine was Tea. The purpose of this project was to see where our food comes from before it is in the store, or in your plate. In order to do this we researched an ingredient that we felt connected to and wanted to learn more about. During [...]

The Journey of Jack Johnson

162 is a course about baseball, history and statistics. For my action project we were assigned to create a slideshow about segregation in sports. The purpose of this action project was to select and show statistical and historical evidence that substantiates our hypothesis on segregation in sports. We created a slideshow supporting our argument, presented [...]

An Eye Opener for Women’s Baseball

In Unit of our Math & Baseball course, 162 we learned a lot about segregation in sports. Before I took this class I never knew anything about baseball and never knew that there is such a segregation in that sport. However now that I am taking this class, I am beginning to realize what an [...]