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Welcome to my 3rd action project for Biomimicry. Biomimicry is an elective course which focuses on STEAM. There are 3 units in this class: Like A Plant, Like an Animal, and Like A Fungus. We just wrapped up Like A Fungus which was our last unit. In this unit, we learned about how things decompose, the difference between a food chain and a food web, organic vs inorganic matter, and many more. For this unit there were two Field Experiences that my class went on, to The Plant and Sharayu from Healthy Soil Compost came in and talked to us about vermicomposting. for this action project our goal is to re-make a product that is sustainable and that is a closed loop system. below is my design.   I had a great time re-creating something sustainable that has now become apart of a lot of people's daily lives. This was a cool project because I got to think about where things go after they are out of use. It was hard to find information on the Echo Dot so it made it a lot harder for m...

Welcome to my second action project for Biomimicry. Biomimicry is an elective course which focuses on STEAM. There are 3 units in this class: Like A Plant, Like an Animal, and Like A Fungus. We just wrapped up Animals which was our second unit. In this unit, we learned about how different designs are inspired by animals. We learned terms like aerodynamics, Bernoulli's principle, the scientific method, and many more. We also learned about the 3 ways we can learn from animals. These 3 ways are Form, Process, and Ecosystem. In this unit, we didn't go on any Field Experiences because we brought the experiences to us. We had two different guests come in, one was Amy from Biomimicry Chicago and the other was Maya. Maya really helped us with our projects because she is an architect and she helped us create our designs which is something she does in her work as an architect. For this action project, we were challenged to create a 3D model of a sustainable structure and a vehicle that w...

Welcome, to my second action project for Ollywood. Ollywood is an Elective course here at GCE Lab School. There are 3 units in this class: Pre-Production, Production, and Post-Production. We are wrapping up our second unit named Production. In this unit, we talked about the different elements and jobs that take place in this producing a film. Some elements and jobs we studied are acting, lights, and cinematography. We had a couple of field experiences in this unit.  We went to the Goodman Theater where were watched A Christmas Carol, a couple of employees from the Goodman Theater came to our school and talked to us about what their positions are at the Goodman. When they were here they also helped us with some table reading since we were transitioning from unit 1, Pre-Production to unit 2, Production. In class, we also talked and watched a couple of videos from movie critics Siskel and Ebert. They were two men who would critic films and sometimes argue with each others opinion but ...

Welcome to my first action project for Ollywood. Ollywood is an elective course with 3 units, Pre-Production, Production, and Post-Production. We just wrapped up the first unit, Pre-Production. In this unit, we learned about jobs that need to happen before shooting a film. Screenplay, storyboards, location scouting, and production design are all jobs that take place in Pre-production. We did a little activity where we were split up into assigned groups based on the genre of film we were given. With the genre of film we were assigned to, we had to find a location that would be appropriate to our genre and hypothetical film there. The genre I had was, action film: chase scene. I did a little research on where popular action films have filmed chase scene in Chicago and I came across Lower Wacker Drive. Films like Wanted, The Dark Night, The Blues Brothers, and many more has filmed at Lower Wacker Drive. I chose Lower Wacker Dr. as my appropriate location to film an action chase scene. Luc...

Welcome to the last unit of Population! This unit was 3 weeks and we covered a lot of information. We talked about symbiotic relationships, growth in populations, line graphs, arithmetic and geometric sequences, and Thomas Malthus. The guiding question for this action project , How does human population growth affect other populations? In order to approach this question, I will be comparing the African Painted Dogs to humans and see the difference in population growth. Symbiotic relationships are interactions between two organisms. There are 7 different types of symbiotic relationships. All organisms interact in different ways. Sometimes they benefit from one another for an example, Bees and flowers. Bees provide flowers with the mean to reproduce and flowers provide bees with nectar and pollen. Sometimes organisms compete against each other for an example, Tigers and Lions. Tigers and Lions could compete for the same prey. For this action project, we were asked to compare our organis...

Welcome to the last Action Project of the Stories. Stories is a humanities course that the sophomores of GCE Lab School take. There are 3 units in this course, and we just wrapped up our last unit of this course. In this unit, we talked about Joseph Campbell's Monomyth-- the 12 stages of a hero's journey. Those 12 stages are Call to Adventure, Refusal of Call, Supernatural Aid, Crossing 1st Threshold, Belly of the Whale, Road of Trial, Meeting with the Goddess, Temptation, Atonement with the Father, Apostasis, Ultimate Boon, Refusal of Return, Magic Fight, Rescue from Without, Crossing Return Threshold, Master of Two Words, and Freedom to Live. For this action project our guiding question was, How do you analyze a hero? We were asked to compare 2 heroes. One fictional hero and one real life hero. The heroes that I chose to talk about were my brother, Leandre and the Flash from the television series named The Flash. I chose the Flash as my fictional hero because he has all the ...

Welcome to my second action project of Population! This unit we focused on animals environment and habitat. In this unit we learned box and whisker plots, standard deviation, permutation and combinations, We recently we on two field experiences to the Field Museum and the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum. At the Field Museum, I was able to see a taxidermy of my animal which was really cool. I got to learn about taxidermy and how it's significant to science. Last action project, my organism was the African Painted Dog. For this action project I wanted to further my research on the African Painted Dog. Below is my continued research on the African Painted Dog. This time we went more in-depth on the environment of our organisms. Our guiding question was, How can you portray the evolution of a species? Habitat : African Painted Dog are mostly found in African plains such as, grasslands, open woodlands, and savannas. In the savanna there are two seasons, winter and summer. During the...