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The spring term at GCE has come to a close and this is the final Action Project Posted for this school year. This post is for the third Action Project for the class Food in the STEAM course. This Action Project was all about our position on GMOs. In this unit we learned about the different methods of plant breeding and environmental impacts on some of our agricultural production. We also covered a lot of genetics and probabilities to see which genes would be dominant or recessive in genes. This action project had to include our own opinion on GMOs. From this we would create our own, small debate. The side that I chose for this AP was against GMOs. This AP also needed a couple graphs that showed some data based off of our arguments. For this project I wrote out my debate which will be shown here including all of the graphs and a video presentation of it. When Justin Dammann goes to plant corn in his 2400 acre farmland he will sow plants grown without genetically modified seeds. ...

Welcome back to my blog. This post is about the second Action Project from my Food class in the STEAM course. In this unit we worked on some math such as variables, exponents, and conversion factors which would become useful for the action project. Leading up to the AP we created a couple kitchen experiments. Our first experiment had to do with leavening agents. We created a "porridge" that was supposed to be similar to making the first bread that our ancestors had made for food with seeds. After creating the porridge I added a banana which could help bring bacteria to the "porridge" so it can rise. The second experiment involved changing emulsifiers. In a brownie recipe we changed eggs with a banana and created two tests. The first test had all the usual ingredients and the second one had the replaced emulsifier. After baking we found the banana test was a different texture than the original test. For this AP we were asked to use a recipe of our choice and replace ...

Welcome back to my blog. This is the second Action Project of the Spring Term at GCE Lab School  so far but the first in my Food class for the STEAM course. Like the AP before this for the Food For Thought class, this was all done at home due to the global pandemic. This first unit was very interesting. Not only was it a new experience by not working in the classroom but we were learning from a new perspective. In this unit we talked a lot about agriculture and natural farming. We read a lot of One Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka. We talked about companion planting and what plants work well together and their symbiosis. We also learned how to test soil using a soil solution and macronutrient test kits. This AP was about making our own container garden. We had to create a design of a garden that we would use if we had more space and resources also utilizing what we learned about companion plants. With my small garden space I planted a handful of the seeds that were mailed to us...