There were a few steps to starting my passion project. Today, I am going to share with you the process, and what I did.

    First I had to come up with my topic. After Mr. DeBerry shared some examples about cooking, I realized that I wanted to narrow that down and choose baking. Baking was a very big topic, so I had to bring it to a more specific topic. After I thought about it, I decided to choose the topic of the science behind baking. This includes the measurements, chemicals, and reactions. I chose this topic because I was very curious about how certain ingredients mixed together would end up in a soft and tasty baked good. Since there are a variety of baked goods to choose from I decided to choose cupcakes to focus on. Once I got my topic, it was time to write my proposal letter.

    My proposal letter was for explaining what my passion project is about, what my questions and resources were, and what my final project was going to be. This was a very hard letter to write because I wanted to make sure my letter was crafted thoughtfully and carefully. There were a lot of challenges and there were some parts that were easy. One of the hardest things for me was making my sub-questions. This felt difficult because I had done a lot of narrowing down, and for my sub-questions I had to narrow it down even more. I overcame this problem by thinking what my main inquiry question included and turned those topics into questions. One of the easiest things during this writing process was deciding what my final project would be. This was simple for me because of one of Mr. DeBerry’s examples of doing a cooking show. I modified this a little and decided I would make my own recipe for cupcakes and make a video about it. In the video there would be little facts along the way to help people understand what the step is about.

    Overall, I am so excited and can’t wait to start researching!