Physics, spanish, and humanities were incorporated into this project. We had to make a oven powered by the sun, and a recipe of our choice in both spanish and english. We started the solar oven portion by searching up online three solar ovens that other people have created and choosing one to base your final oven off of. Then once we chose that we had to make exact blueprints of the final oven. Shortly after that we got our supplies and started building. After we were done we tested the ovens and had a reflection on them. We started the recipe portion by setting up times with one of our parents to cook with them. Once we cooked we had to write down our recipes and our steps on how to make whatever we made, and a paragraph on how our experience was cooking with our parent. Then we would translate it into spanish.
In this project we had a partner ship and my partner was one of my peers Evan Nazario. We worked pretty good together throughout the whole project. For the solar oven we decided to make something similar to a pizza box oven but modify it in our own way and we agreed with a lot of it. For both sides of the project we decided to do the extra credit option. The solar ovens extra credit was to make it collapsible, and the the recipes was to make two recipes and we did both of them. Something that went well in terms of collaboration was getting everything done together and not wasting anytime.Something that I can grow in as a group member is probably share the air more. Whenever I envision something in my head i want it to come out perfect so I want to do it all. So that's definitely something I could change.
In cooked we learned many words in spanish pertaining cooking. We learned how to say everything from pork chops to cooking. We also learned a lot about cooking when we had two chef come to our class and cook with our parents. We also used all of our learning outcomes. We used oral communication in spanish class when we had to read our recipes in spanish to our peers or our teacher and also during exhibition. We used written communication to write our essays and for the solar oven reflection. We used work ethic all throughout the project working really hard on building the solar oven. All that work paid off with great content.
I used empathy in this project because I had a few thought about homeless people and what would they do if they needed to heat something up? We used a lot of grit when building the oven. Because we wanted to do the extra credit we had to make it collapsible so to do that we did a puzzle sort of thing where the sides fit in hole in the bottom. We had to make the holes the perfect size, and it took a long time but we didn’t give up. We demonstrated responsibility by always staying on task.
I believe that exhibition turned out really good. I don't understand why we had it at the coffee house, it didn't have any relevance to our project, but I had an awesome time. I believe that my recipe turned out really good. I chose the second option as well which was to add another language and I finally fit it all in one page. Also the solar oven, even though it didn't work, I feel like it looked pretty professional and it was collapsible. I would give myself an A+ for our 9th grade learning outcome and class values.