In English class, I created a future life chart to imagine life after high school and wrote the following essay in reflection: Throughout the course of this project, it has become increasingly apparent to me that living is expensive. I would honestly rather live in a self-sustaining cabin in the woods and farm my own […]
Category: Solve Problems
[AP Research] Strategies & Scenarios
[post three] One strategy that I used during class to manage my time wisely and finish a task/goal was to set twenty minute timers and fully focus on working for those minutes. Then, I would take a minute to break and begin the timer over again. Another strategy was listening to music while working, […]
Trig Functions with the Clinometer!
A clinometer is a tool used to perform indirect measurements and approximate the heights of objects that would normally be difficult or impossible to measure. For instance, my group member and I used a clinometer that we built to determine the height of our school building. As you can see in the model I created […]
Parabola Selfie!
For the Unit 4 Parabola Selfie Project in my Algebra 2 Trigonometry class, I went hunting for an a parabola in real life! I found a pair of safety goggles with lenses that measured 2.75 inches across and 1.5 inches from the vertex to the nose bridge. Using Desmos Graphing Calculator, I was able to […]
Three Ways To Solve
When solving a system of equations, there are three possible methods: graphing, substitution, and elimination. To represent this, I solved the system 4x + 3y = -6 and x + 3y = 21 with each of the different methods. After solving, I think that the graphing method was the easiest to use. This […]
Youth Alcoholism – Persuasive Speech Essay
Each year, over 4,300 youths and teens die due to underage drinking and youth alcoholism. Underaged drinking and youth alcoholism are defined as instances where adolescents under the age of 21 consume alcoholic beverages illegally. In many states, minors are allowed to consume alcohol under certain circumstances, such as for educational, medical, […]
The Dangers of Prescription Drugs
Throughout the Drug Unit in my Health class, we learned about the different varieties of drugs, both legal and illegal. These included, opioids, stimulants, depressants (including alcohol), steroids, hallucinogens, inhalants, and cannabinoids. The final project for this particular unit split our class into eight groups, each with a different category of drug to research and […]
Le projet de vêtements
In my French II class, we just completed our clothing unit. For a final project, my partner, Jean, and I created a video using verbs, possessive adjectives, colors, and clothing vocabulary. In the video we produced, we talked about the clothing we were wearing and visited a department store where we reviewed and purchased a […]
Ankle Foot Orthosis Design Challenge
In my PLTW (Project Lead the Way) Design and Modeling class, my group and I were given challange to design, build and test a prototype of an Ankle Foot Orthisis for a patient with Cerebral Palsy. We created an innovative AFO to restrict downward movement of the ankle by our patient and solve thier walking […]
Identical Quadratics!
For this week’s Portfolio Problem, I chose to work on the Identical Quadratics situation. This problem tasked me to fill in blank spaces in order to create three equation that would result in the same parabola. To fill in the blanks, I could only use whole numbers between 0 and 9, and I could only […]