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Capstone blog post #3

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Capstone is finally over, and I think that I did a good job on my considering the circumstances. I choose to do my capstone in the form of a ted talk. I chose this because I had never done a ted talk before and I thought it might be fun, it turned out to be a lot harder than I thought it would be. My favorite part of capstone was putting together the slide show and choosing the pictures, I put a lot of work into making it look good and go with what I was saying. In the end I wound up getting rid of a lot of pictures and changing a lot of things. I had a lot of trouble finding the pictures I needed so I wound up having to take a few pictures from books. Another challenge that I faced was with the script and revising. I love to write but this was really hard, especially since I wasn’t in school. I am really nervous about sharing my project. Now looking back I would have done a different topic, but now I have ideas for any future projects.

Capstone blog post #2

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For my capstone I interviewed Allen Just, he works in Environmental Medicine & Public Health at Mount. Sinai. He was able to answer all of the questions I had for him about my topic. I interviewed him because I knew that he would probably be able to answer most of my questions. It was actually easier than I thought to get an interview because he was my old neighbor. So I was able to just call him and ask the questions. A challenge that I had with the interview was coming up with questions. I was having trouble coming up with questions that would be really really helpful, otherwise i wouldn’t be able to use some of the answers to help me with my Capstone project. The most helpful thing that I learned from this interview is that there are a lot of books on this topic so that was helpful to my research.

Here is a picture of the person I interviewed:

Capstone Blog Post #1

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My class and I just started capstone! I am so excited! Capstone is a project that the fifth graders do at the end of the year. My project is going to be about plant based eating. The main question That I am researching is “what are the positive impacts of plant based eating” and my sub questions are 

  • “ What is a plant based diet and what does it look like on a regular bases,” 
  • “What impact does plant based eating have on the environment,” 
  • “What are the economic benefits of a plant-based eating?”
  • “what are the impacts of a plant based diet on the human body” 
  • “What are the difficulties of eating plant based?” 

already knowing a little bit about my topic was really helpful with picking my main inquiry question. That made it so that I chose a question that nobody had the answer to yet. One of the challenging things about choosing a main question to research is choosing just one. There were tons of things I could have researched with my topic but eventually I narrowed it down to what are the positive impacts of plant based eating. 

 

As a learner I know that I usually learn best when I read or listen to things more than once, project based learning or if I can experience what I am learning about that’s why I decided to become a weekday vegetarian for this project. That means that I am a vegetarian but only during the week on the weekends I can eat meat. I thought this was a good choice because I can’t go out to the store all the time and get ingredients for vegetarian dishes due to the coronavirus pandemic so this was a good compromise. I can’t wait to work on this project some more!