Over the past couple of days we have been working on a laser cutting project and I was working on a frog with a hat. While I worked on this I lost my original drawing and had to redraw it. After that while i was tracing it on i got confused with the colors and had to re do that as well. Finally after many attempts i got it right!
Last week we learned about protons and neutrons and I learned that neutrons move about from protons and I thought that was cool. We learned that if you rub a ballon on a sweater the ballon is attracted to the sweater. Over all I thought the lesson was fun and I really enjoyed it. The lesson was engaging and I liked the simulation that we got to play.
Today we did the Breakout.edu lesson. I thought this lesson was super fun and engaging because not only did this lesson review our knowledge of the safety rules but also helped us work together as a group to help us when we work on future projects. Overall I really enjoyed this lesson and I don’t think you need to change anything about it.
In the movie, Underwater Dreams, the main characters took part in a underwater robotics competition. The boys were only in high school, they were competing against some top collages. The boys were undocumented immigrants from Mexico. Their family’s didn’t have enough money. When they were building their robot, the parts used to make the robot were parts from Home Depot while the other schools had expensive parts that were handmade. The boys robot cost $800 to make while the other schools like MIT had sponsors and their robot cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. When they were at the competition they had a lot of issues with their robot. There was flooding where the mother board was, they didn’t know how to solve this issue. But they figured out a way to stop the flooding and were resourceful. They worked super hard on there paper and presentation and they ended up winning the competition! After winning the competition the boys took different paths. They couldn’t do a lot of stuff because they were undocumented immigrants so they couldn’t be engineers like they wanted to be. They inspired many kids at the school that they went to that no matter what your origins are you can do great things.
When I first started this Capstone project I wanted to do the history of cakes but I noticed that the topic is too broad and I had to narrow it down. I wanted my capstone to be about culture. My main inquiry question now is How does Indian cuisine incorporate the two desserts Kheer and Gulab Jamun into their cultural celebrations. When I was working on gathering Information about the two desserts I found it difficult to find articles, websites, and books about them. When I found some articles they had a lot of information that was useful. To answer my main inquiry question I had to research. I researched the history, similarities and differences, and the different variations. Here is some information that helped me with my final project.
The history of of Gulab Jamun are very interesting because they were both originated around the same time and the same place. Gulab Jamun is known to be from many different desserts including Al Qadi a Arabic dessert, Bamieh a Persian dessert, and the Turkish Tulumba. People believe that Gulab Jamun was first prepared by accident by Shah Jahan’s royal chef, Gulab Jamun is also known to have originated around the Medieval period. People in India were used to making sweets with sugar, milk, cheese, honey, and jaggery when travelers arrived they were shocked because of the sweetness in their milk and how creamy it was as well. Kheer was also part of the ancient Indian diet.
Kheer and Gulab Jamun have many differences and similarities also. Kheer is a. pudding texture with rice, milk, sugar, and honey with many flavors and is usually decorated with edible gold or silver leafs, Gulab Jamun is solid milk mixed with flour fried over a open flame then dipped in a sugar syrup flavored with green cardamom and rose water and Kheer can be eaten as a meal or as a dessert while Gulab Jamun can be eaten as a dessert.They also have similarities, “Kheer and Gulab Jamun can be eaten warm or cold” says my interviewee, Sherri Sharma. She also says that “Both desserts can be eaten during winter and summer and anytime of year.”
So what is in Kheer and Gulab? Kheer has many variations that are different with each family that contain raisins, sliced almonds, and cinnamon, and cardamon. Kheer also has a rice base that also contains a lot of milk and is mixed in with anything it all depends on what you want to add. Gulab Jamun has condensed milk, khoya or flour that gets mixed into the milk. Rose water is also included because after they are deep fried they get dipped in the syrup. Some variations of Gulab Jamun have a caramelized sugar coat which makes the Gulab Jamun have a crunchy outside and a soft inside.
When it was time to start making my slideshow and script for my TEDtalk the slideshow was easy to make and finding pictures also wasn’t that hard. the hardiest part about my final project was memorizing my script this took me around a week to fully memorize it.
The purposes of my interview was to gather more information about my Capstone project and I think this is a big part of my research because it helped me figure out more information from someone.
Finding someone to interview was kind of challenging because it was hard at first but when I found someone it was easy from there. I had to think about what kind of person I wanted to interview and that was also part of the hardest part.
I think my interview went great because I got a ton of information and it was very helpful to talk to someone who knows a lot about my topic and give me more information then in any of my articles have.
Over all the interview was fun and it gave me a lot of information that I can use in my project.
My overall experience designing my Rube Goldburg was fun because I got to experiment with different simple machines. Making my video was also fun because I got to show what I had been working on. The final project took me around 3 hours but it was worth it. It took me 3 tries but super cool and fun to do. Over all my favorite project yet.
Here is my video
Hi I am Lilac and I just finished a debate project. Something I thought was hard finding good research to fit with my reasons, I think this because one of the worlds main focuses right now is to ban plastic bags but I also had to take notes on why they shouldn’t be banned and this was very hard for me because not many people thought they shouldn’t be banned. something that was easy for me was doing the actual debate I thought it was very smooth and easy going and I really enjoyed this project.
Hi I am Lilac. I finished my Constitution project and I think I successfully got my point across. My project was about women voting rights I did a wevideo and I think that I did pretty well over all. My question was “Why din’t women have voting rights when voting was first established” and I think I answered my question.
Hi I am Lilac, in this blog post I am going to be talking about my research for my project my question is “Why didn’t women have voting rights when voting was first established?” here are my resources I used to help me solve this question. Brainpop, factsite, and finally archives, this resources helped me find good information on my question and helped me a lot in my project. somethings I found difficult is finding a good three resources. Something I found easy is collecting information.