CH GCE Portfolio

In my freshman humanities class, we are learning about the 17 Sustainable Development goals created by the United nations. (Sustainable Development Goals are a collection of 17 global goals set by the United Nations General Assembly in 2015.) At the end of the first term, we chose one of the seventeen goals that we wanted to focus on. We had to research why that goal exists, and what it does for us today. We had to refer this all back to a country, whether it is upholding that goal or not. I choose Australia to compare and contrast the standards for Sustainable Development Goal number 16. I also learned many global facts about SDG number 16. This includes the progress that has been made, the current state of this issue, and the things that regular people can do to help achieve this goal. "At least 1,019 human rights defenders and journalists have been killed in 61 countries since 2015." (UN) Many places in the world still experience multiple forms of violence. In many place...

I am a freshman at GCE Lab School. In my STEAM class, our first unit is about water. This week we were focusing on climate and weather. Comparing and contrasting the effects and many other variables. At the end of the week, we were tasked with creating a presentation that took one region, country, or city and explained how the weather and climate in that place will change by 2100. This project includes research about the parts per million, the carbon cycle, clouds, and annual temperature. For my research, I chose Buenos Aires, Argentina. They have a unique terrain encompassing the Andes mountains, glacial lakes, and Pampas grassland. Works Cited: Impacts and Adaptation.” Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews - Climate Change, 2015, pp. 151–169. Bianchi, Alberto. “ATLAS CLIMÁTICO DIGITAL DE LA REPÚBLICA ARGENTINA.” Global Archives, Instituto Nacional De Tecnología Agropecuaria, 2010, inta.gob.ar/sites/default/files/script-tmp-texto_atlas_climtico_digital_de_l...

In this workshop, we have studied a many things like deductive reasoning, analytical writing, logical argument in algebra and geometry, complementary and supplementary angles, combinations, and Pascal's Triangle. Our AP includes both Pascal's Triangle and combinations since Pascal's Triangle are based on combinations! We connected the real world and math by figuring out how many different paths you could take from one place to another. My class learned about mathematical combinations and how we can solve them using factorials, permutations, and combinations. We also learned how we could use the Pascal's Triangle to help find how many routes that are on a map. We used the combination formula, nCr, to help find these ways even faster. It was a unit full of finding different ways we could solve or unlock different mathematical combinations and patterns. For this AP, we had to find a way to present different combinations of objects in a dynamic representation. The purpose o...

For the past couple of weeks, my freshman class and I have been studying water filters and the possibilities for water filtration. During our classes and research, I was really into it because of the fact that I had done this before. I instantly knew that building the actual filter would probably be easier this time because of my previous experience. This journey also made me think about the Flint Water Crisis and how I could potentially make a filter to ensure safe drinking water for myself and community. This is my second action project for my STEAM course on the unit “Water.” The project is to make a water filter that filters dirty water into clean and potable water. During this class, we have been studying water filtration. In class, we learned about logarithms, and we also learned how to find pH levels using logarithms and scientific notation, and what the pH scale is. We went on a field experience to the Jardine Water Treatment Plant. During the field experience, I lear...

Muchos pintores utilizaron sus obras de arte como protesta contra ciertos eventos en la historia de España. Las pinturas de la época del Renacimiento reflejan la innovación que estaba sucediendo en el mundo en ese momento, como los avances en ciencia y tecnología. La fabricación del caballete significaba que los pintores tenían su propio medio con el que trabajar y, por lo tanto, ya no estaban atados a los arquitectos por los espacios para pintar. El romanticismo se convirtió en una forma de arte completamente desarrollada a fines del siglo dieciocho. Las pinturas románticas incorporan elementos de la naturaleza, el heroísmo, la humanidad y las emociones. El romanticismo marcó un movimiento que se alejó del enfoque científico de la pintura, hacia una forma más expresiva.  Las pinturas del romanticismo permitieron al pintor ser libre con su pintura y sus colores. Los pintores del romanticismo también usaron su arte para transmitir sus sentimientos hacia sus propias...

The USA and the Netherlands both are very similar countries. They consist of a Democracy, with elected officials, and a constitution with amendments that help make up the law. But both citizens in these countries have very different experiences. In my freshman humanities class, we looked at the difference and similarities between sex and gender. We’ve met with many people and visited institutions to get a better understanding of the issues of gender equality. We met with Professor Hewitt from Oakton Community College, and Scout from the Chicago Women's Health Center. We visited the Center on Halsted. Throughout this entire unit we discussed how we see equality and inequality in our lives, and where we commonly see gender inequalities within and throughout media and social media. After going on a field experience, we took time to reflect and understand the information so that we too could build our own views on this issue. What stood out to me was the evolution of the amendment and ...

In my geometry course, we have a mixed grade class. This means we have 9th to 12th graders in one geometry class. Since we are all in different grades, my teacher Mr. W, picked a problem that could be interpreted across many different skill levels. The question was, where can we find reflected angles in real life? How can we represent them? We are doing an action project because we believe that my class does not just need identify and quantify reflections using formal mathematical concepts, but relate it to real life concept. My first thing to answer in this post is, what is a reflection? A reflection is a type of rigid transformation in which the pre-image is flipped across a line of reflection to create the image. Each point of the image is the same distance from the line as the pre-image is, just on the opposite side of the line. I picked the face/vase illusion. Automatically I noticed this picture is a reflection of itself vertically, so I decided to challenge myself and find...

During my first Humanities class, during freshman year. We learned about the sustainable development goals set by the united nations. We focused on goal one, no poverty. Goal two, zero hunger. Goal three, quality education. We took a trip to the Lincoln Park Community Shelter to learn about the effects of the limited resources in our neighborhood. We then cooked them lunch to show gratitude and thanks for allowing us to enter into the community that they have formed. My end unit project is focusing on ending extreme poverty and whether adequate shelter, health care, and free primary and secondary school should be a human right. Each year, the homeless costs the government almost $50,000 per person, according to the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. That is more spent per person than some people below the poverty line make. People should not have to endure a life of poverty. They should have the human right to adequate shelter, health care, and free prima...

My nearest water source is 3.36 miles away, that would take me an hour and ten minutes to walk to the river to collect water. It would take me about 3 and 30 minutes to walk back with more than 3 gallons of water in my hands. It would take 3 times as long if I was carrying water. I calculated this by taking the time it took to walk from our school to the river without water, and then I compared it to the time walking from the river to the school with water. When we did not have water, it took 6 minutes to walk from school to the river. When we did have water, it took us 18 minutes which is three times as long walking without water. The average person in the USA uses 152 gallons a day. That is 575 liters and is equal to 1267.68 pounds. The average person in the UK uses 150 liters a day. That is about 40 gallons and is equal to 333.6 pounds. Many people think that the UK has a lot of different places and a lot of different people. But after studying the water usage of people all ove...