GS Portfolio

In my STEAM, Water class we, as a class, mainly focused on filtration. In class we built our own small, sort of knockoff water filters. This included using plastic cups and coffee filters or using sand to relate to groundwater filtration. We learned about the pH of the water which shows whether the water is alkaline (basic) or acidic. This branched out to working on logarithms which we learned are the inverse of exponents. By working with logarithms I discovered how that and pH are so closely related. You can use the pH to find how many hydrogen plus ions there are in the water or its concentration. By doing the reverse, you know the concentration and are trying to solve for the pH. Since we talked about hydrogen ions we had to recover chemistry. Our field experience of this part of the unit was adventuring to the Jardine Water Filtration plant in Chicago. In our tour of the plant, the workers extract water from Lake Michigan, filter it, and that is then transported across the networ...

Equal Representation In Sports In our second unit of our SDGs or Sustainable Development Goals class we started talking about gender equality. At the start we mainly talked about the United States, being the country we live in, and discussed the gender pay gap. That led on to our Field Experiences like going to the Center on Halsted in Chicago. This center is a place or comfort for all people no matter their sex, race, or otherwise. It specialized in helping the LGBT community and additionally helped people in need. We found out that they are also helping people that need housing and helping them with finding jobs and being able to live their lives. We then began to think of gender representation in the other countries and the media. We talked about Burka Avenger which was about a teacher who uses pens and books as weapons to fight against the evil of unequal rights for women. We also watched the documentary, Miss Representation and had discussions about that. Still thinking of oth...

In our Humanities or SDGs class, Sustainable Development Goals, we were talking about the certain goals that could be thought of as a need to be a human right. The options were no poverty, no hunger, and quality education. The goal that I chose was number two, no hunger. I believe that food should be a human right because it is primarily a basic need. We need food to survive and if we do not have it we will obviously die, since that is the only alternative. Before then we went on a field experience to Lincoln Park Community Services in Chicago. There we experienced people who are hungry and we also as a class, cooked for the people that attended the lunch. I personally enjoyed this because I was able to talk with people that needed food and they were really appreciative of the food that they had been given. This led to the action project which is an essay about our chosen goal. The essay is below. To, Hiu, LPCS 2019, One of the food items cooked was chicken. Could you imagine...