Passion Project

Ruby, your project ended up being a very big learning curve. The process around chocolate making was more complex than you had imagined and looking at fair trade opened your eyes to a whole new world. You showed real empathy as you began to understand child labour and how these people were treated. Throughout your research and the trial and error of chocolate making you had to gather data through all of your senses and think flexibly on how to perfect the recipe.
During your whole project you were committed to the task and never gave up even when the chocolate turned into a disaster! Well done Ruby, keep up the great work. All the best for next year.
Pania

Passion project

This is the keynote that I made to show what I learnt I the passion project time (term 3 and 4)

This also shows about fair trade and how it is much better. Remember you can pause the slide if you want to have a bit more time to look at the slide, enjoy!

Reflection

During my passion project I think I have used these habits of mind:

Questioning and Posing Problems, when I was searching for just the right recipe when it didn't turn out I had to think back and think about why and what could have caused the problem.

Persisting, when the chocolate was taking a while to get ready to set in the fridge, and had to keep making the recipes over again to get them right.

Thinking Flexibly when I had to find out a way to keep that recipe but modified it a bit for example so it doesn't taste to sandy: use different milk powder or if it is to runny: use a bit more kermelta.

Managing impulsivity when I had to wait for the chocolate to set and it took quite a while. But I think I have got it now, I also kept trying to get the recipes right.

My new learning 3/11/10

Today I made chocolate 2 batches I think the second batch turned out better the first one because it was a bit sandy. The second batch was nice and glossy. The reason that I made three batches is so I can find out which one is the best, I am going to find that out by asking the children to see which batch I will sell.

My new learning 21/9/10

Chocolate Chocolate Chocolate

Today at enrich I made milk and dark chocolate. I think the milk chocolate tastes better because it is a lot sweeter. I made a few mistakes like making it a bit lumpy but I think the next time I make it, it will probably be a lot better because I will know to make it go through the sifter properly.

New learning for 20/10/10

Today my new learning was about finding recipes to compare and I found two I looked at each one and did a venn diagram about both the recipes it was very interesting because there was a big difference in the recipes I will soon be making the chocolate.