20% Time Project Proposal

 

Name: Joanne Park

Project Title:  (I’m not sure…still thinking)

Project Start Date: November 7^th, 2014

Project Completion Date: May 15^th, 2015

Mentor’s Name:  Linda Kim, Andy Park, and Joseph Park

Brief Description:  I am going to cook different recipes, and try to improve my cooking and share different recipes.

Overview of Project Proposal

 

1)      Project Objective:

 I plan to cook a dish once a week and write down the recipe along with my own comments on it. I plan on making things from scratch, or just by myself.

By the end of this year I hope to have a cook book with all the different recipes in it. Or just being able to help my parents cook dinner when they are not feeling well.

2)      Project Rationale:

I am doing this because I enjoy cooking and baking, but I am not the best at it. Plus I really like trying new things and I REALLY love eating >.<.  Food is good, really good. Anyways I want to improve my cooking skills so that I can cook m self something to eat when my parents are not feeling well or sleeping.

That is another reason why I want to learn how to cook, so I can help my parents. I want to be able to help them out when they are sick or busy. Also I could make them a meal for their birthdays or Mother’s/ Father’s day.

3)      Project Steps:

·         Help my mom cook once a wee

·         Ask for the recipe

·         Research different recipes

·         Cook the ones I found

·         Write down the recipe on my blog

·         Post the recipe, picture, and my own comments

4) Timeline of Activities

December 2014

·         Try out cooking once a week

·         Upload different recipes for the holidays

January 2015

·         Fix and blog issues I ran into the past month

·         Give tips

·         Cook/bake for my friends’ birthdays (they have a lot of January birthdays)

·         If I find something helpful share

February 2015

·         Post blogs

·         Help cook with my mom or dad

March 2015

·         Post blogs

·         Starting thinking of ways to present my project at the end of the year

April 2015

·         Post blogs

·         Come up with the “official” presentation

·         Work on a draft for the presentation

May 2015

·         Post last couple blogs

·         Work on presentation

·         Write an overall “experience” blog

4)      Available Human and Material Resources:

·         Mentors above

·         YouTube videos (cooking videos)

·         Cook Books

·         Social Media ( Pinterest, Facebook, Tumblr, etc.)

5)      Possible Road Blocks:

·         Not enough supplies

·         Too much school work

·         My mom may not like me cooking in her kitchen

·         Nothing I would want to cook

·         My cooking may taste bad

·         Time

·         I might burn the house down

6)      Research Questions:

·         What will this teach me in life?

·         What will my family/friends think of my cooking/baking?

·         What benefits does cooking have?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Blog No.3

     I have a BIG problem. I want to change my project subject to something I would enjoy doing every Friday and at home. I realized that I don't want to do the bone thingy, because I don't really have an interest for it. Well, I do but its not strong enough. I want to do something that I look forward to do, and I wont mind doing for the rest of the year. I want to pick something that I REALLY want to do, so I don't change my mind later on in the year. But I just don't know what that is...
    I'm trying to think of some ideas for me to do...but I don't think it is working out. I will put a list down below (yes, I know some of them will be stupid but these are just the first thinks that pop up in my head)

• Food (aka: my dinner): I would take picture of my dinner once week (that I attempted to cook myself), then write down the recipe, and then add my own comments.
• Trying To Fix My Bad Habits: Some of my habits would be not doing homework/studying until the last minute, leaving my room and bathroom a mess, procrastination, laziness, and spending to much time on my phone and laptop. If I were to do this one, I would try to improve these habits and my blogs would consist of my process and struggles

     Yeah....that's all I can think of right now. Typing out what I would do for each topic helped me realize that I am kind of leaning towards the Cooking/Baking subject. Since I really do enjoy cooking and its a good way to help my mom, I might do the first one. I will think about it tonight, and make a final decision by tomorrow. If I do end up wanting to this, then I will work on my Project Proposal and upload that for my next blog post.

Blog No.2

    After researching what the best website/diagram would be to learn all the bones in the human body, I found the perfect website (link will be provided at the end of the blog). And in that website there is a list of all the different bones that looks like this:

 

 
  Okay.. remember how I said I wouldn't have any difficulties on the first day of my project, because I would be only learning one bone, the skull. Well, I was wrong. Looking at this list, I noticed how many bones are in the skull. Also I feel very foolish because I thought the skull was only one bone, which I should've known is NOT true because I already know there are cheek bones and jaw bones as well.

   Now that I can see how many bones are in the human body, and how many I have to learn (all of them), I am debating on how I am going to learn all of them. I could start off with flash cards with the area of the bone on one side and the bone name on the other. and when I am confident in myself I can take the quizzes that are provided in the website.

website link: http://bodyquiz.net/bones/overview

Blog No.1

   Hi, this is my first blog! For my 20% Time Project, I am thinking about learning the human body. I am not 100% sure if I will follow this plan but I most likely will. I am hoping to learn all the bones in the human body, and if that goes well then I will move on to the muscles and so on. When I start my project, I am going to start from the head and end at the feet. I do not expect a big challenge on the first day of my project, because I am pretty sure that you only have one bone in you head... the skull. By the end of this school year I hope to be able to remember and know all the things I learned while doing this project. I will pray that this project will have a successful result, even if I fail.