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Banana Project
What's the new craze? The new thing everybody's on about? I'm gonna go ahead and guess you aren't thinking about bananas. Our first assignment in The ZONE was to take a banana and turn it into You can probably imagine the look our class gave Paul and Rachel. But, it was a great way to show our creativity by turning the banana into it's own separate (yet still banana themed) product. I created bevy banana, a little friend!
Storytelling/Podcast Work
One first project in the ZONE was storytelling. We studied many moth storytelling podcasts and learned the structure of stories and how to make certain parts stand out. We used the Moth's storytelling prompts and picked cards for topics and told stories that came to our minds with no planning or much time to think. I got a card related to bravery. Very quickly, the story of my
first time at the skate park came to mind. I told
the story from what I had and . I developed the
story, added parts, removed parts, the whole
sha-bang. I worked for days in The ZONE
building up my story and in the beginning I was having a lot of trouble trying to choose a main point to the story. At first it was about bravery, but after a bit I started to have second thoughts. The more I thought about it the more I realized it was more than that. It was also about my mom and how she assists me in accomplishing things I find scary. After a few days of working, reflection, and feedback, i came up with my final product. Our final
story slam came up that Friday and I was so ready to
show everyone how far my story had come. After
telling my story for the second time in front of a group
of people, I felt like it had more of a point, more of a
purpose. I felt like I got my point through a lot clearer and I finally understood that bravery is MORE than just what you can accomplish on your own, it's also about the people who push you to face your fears.
Final Product!
Pam's Parisian Adventure
We had a client (Pam) reach out to us and request help on
her trip to Paris. We decided to build an app that included
a customized trip to Paris designed around her. We talked
to her and found out more about her trip and the things
\she wanted and didn't want. We then printed out a map
and identified some places she'd be visiting. Then, we
researched places that we wanted to put into our app. We then started creating our first draft of our app.
First Draft
Our first draft of our website, rough edges, no nonsense.
Final Draft
Our final app for Pam to use while she explores Paris and my reflection video.
Gingerbread House Making.
In December, we created gingerbread house as a tool to teach 2nd graders French. We started off with cardboard prototypes, and then moved on to our gingerbread.
We laser cut our gingerbread to create
perfect dimensions for our houses.
Then, we decorated and designed the house with fondant and ici and created a form of media to present our houses to the kids while also teaching them French vocab. Here's my video.
Maple Syrup
Tapping
THE SUGAR BUSH!!!
In February we started to tap maple trees and began learning the process of how to make maple syrup. These maple trees were in a pocket of woods behind Charles O. Dickerson, the source of our sweet, sweet liquid gold. Once it started warming up, the sap flowed into our little blue sacks. Out to the woods we march where we will labor our 1st and 2nd blocks away hauling buckets of sap up and down the hill. This was the beginning, the beginning of FLX LIQUID GOLD. After a few weeks of becoming familiar with the maple syrup process, paul revealed that we'd be entering a maple syrup branding, marketing, and tasting.
Process
In the fall, we went out and marked trees that we would eventually tap and the spring and figured out how many taps we could assign to each tree. We used Gaia to map and track our trees in order to locate and keep our tree numbers in order.
Soon enough, spring came and the frost melted which meant it was time to get to work! We learned to tap the trees including learning the process and vocabulary in French and creating media to teach younger french learners about the maple syrup process. We had elementary school students come out and help tap trees, empty sap, and taste samples.
We spent weeks emptying and boiling, emptying and boiling until we had amassed a total of 270 gallons or 1,021.75 kg of sap. Although this would eventually boil down to a mere 7ish gallons, it doesn't take away from the amount I've learned and grown during this unit.
Logos, Labels, and Images
Patience is the key to maple syrup. You'll find you have a LOT of extra time while boiling syrup. We spent our extra time designing our marketing materials. We began with designing the logo which would eventually evolve into our finalized label.
Class Prototypes
We decided to evolve leos logo and turning it into a label + logo
Finally, we had to select and edit or final images
Beginnings of Syrup (cool origin story)
Maple Sap was originally discovered by the first people (indigenous peoples). They then discovered a way to boil the syrup down and concentrate the sugars, creating syrup. Although many people give credit to the French colonizers, It's important to understand that the true credit belongs to the first people. I got a better understanding of who deserves credit for the maple syrup. After the other document we read in the zone I was a little confused but after viewing a second source it helped me understand a lot better
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