PVU GCE Portfolio

In my last STEAM course of my freshman year food, we learned about leavening agents and what is the best for bread. For this AP, the class was told to bake three different types of breads using three different leavening agents. Two of the breads were to be made with biological leavening agents, yeast and sourdough, and the third bread was made with a chemical leavening agent, baking soda. We learned about fractions when it comes to cooking, solving proportions, and how to convert recipes. We learned how to solve logarithms and how to find the pH of anything. The group I was in was the chemical group. The chemical leavening agent was baking soda. I liked this project overall. I think there were some flaws, but bread we baked was really good. I think that everything I learned from this action project I will be able to take into the real world. When I am on my own, I will need to learn how to do all of this by myself. This action project didn’t just help me in academics, but ...

This is the second AP of unit two for the fall course of water (H2O.) The project was to make a water filter that would turn contaminated water into clean water. The part that I didn’t do very well was making the water filter; I used regular charcoal instead of activated charcoal. The charcoal made the water really dirty. I knew how to create a water filter, but I looked online for a template on how to build one. Something that I did wrong that made my outcome less successful was that I guided the water through the filter so it would flow quicker and easier. I liked building the water filter; I used a soda bottle, and natural materials from Home Depot. I built the filter with my dad. I did the work and he gave suggestions. I ran my water cycle four times and none of the four trials supported my predictions. (PVU, October 2015) The filter that I built used natural materials to filter the contaminated water. Larger gaps filter larger particles and smaller gaps filter smaller part...