Elisabeth
CR 3
2/28/20
- Writing on your essential question: What have you learned about your essential question so far? What further questions do you have? and/or Has your essential question changed? If so, how? What do you want to know more about?
- How are you exploring your essential question; is it different from what you expected? If you don’t feel like you’re answering your essential question, what is happening that’s different from what you expected?
- Are you surprised by any of the challenges that you’ve faced so far? How have you met those challenges and what can you do going forward to deal with them?
Something I’ve learned about my essential question through the process of researching it, and expected somewhat going into it, is that it is a very broad question. There are many different things you could cook and each thing comes with its own science, so answering questions like have you answered your essential question or how much more do you need to learn to answer your essential question are kind of impossible to answer. There is an infinite amount of work I could do in an attempt to answer my essential question because there’s infinite recipes and interactions of chemicals and biological processes within those infinite recipes.
I’m exploring my essential question both through research and through hands-on observation and experimentation. This is exactly how I expected I would be exploring my essential question, so there haven’t really been that many surprising moments. One challenge I guess I’ve not necessarily been surprised by, but surprised I hadn’t taken into consideration before is that, because my project is cooking and baking at the end I have lots of food and only the four people in my family to give it to. This obviously isn’t a super serious issue, but I do feel bad because I don’t want to waste food but at the same time I also don’t want to eat 12 macarons especially if they’re not that good, as they turned out to be. In the future to address this I think I’ll attempt to better calculate the scale of what I make to make sure that I don’t end up with too much food in the end but am still able to get the reactions necessary to the recipe.