WH GCE Portfolio

 For the second unit of my Food for Thought Humanities class, Death, we learned more about the history of food. We went on a Field Experience to the Lincoln Park Conservatory, and we learned more about the diversity of plants and polycultures and monocultures. For this Action Project, we were asked to write a paper, and then make a video on it. Below is my video, and my paper. Global population is a growing problem. The global food system is the system that keeps the world fed. It encompasses global food trade routes, agriculture, shipping, among other things. It’s threatened by a growing population because we can’t grow enough food and supply it fast enough if our population grows out of control. Population growth is a, well, growing problem, and we need to find solutions for it as soon as we possibly can. If policies stay the way they are now, civilization very well could collapse before we even get to 2050. Population growth is quickly becoming a big problem. We aren...

In the 2nd unit of my Food STEAM class, we learned more about how to cook, and how cooking affects all of us. For this Action Project, we were asked to bake loaves of bread, with different recipes and leavening agents for each loaf. Below is my lab report for this project, and for my group's loaf of bread. In conclusion, I thought that this was a pretty tough project, although most of it was done in-class. Getting the calculations and the conclusion done was quite difficult, but I think I did well on the project overall.