Final Project

Relevant Learning Goals:

Enable students to interpret a recipe: including the chemical roles of ingredients and any chemical (e.g. heating) or physical (e.g. melting) transformations that  contribute to achieving the outcome of the dish/food.

Empower students to cook, invent and change recipes to suit their personal goals

The Final Project has a few parts:

Part 1

First you have to choose a recipe to make. I am asking you to challenge yourself to do something that is a little outside your comfortable zone. The recipe must be sufficiently difficult. FP: Part 1 

Part 2
Draft your blog entry. The final project blog entry needs to be polished – along the lines of The Kitchn or Serious Eats, where images, narrative and chemical explanations are interwoven into a single post that is easy to follow. FP: Part 2

• • Ingredients and Instructions
  • Draft three independent chemical explanations for three different parts of the recipe – this can be in a document

Part 3

Final Project Submission. The actual final project submission is a polished blog entry  (one like The Kitchn or Serious Eats) in which you make the dish, document steps with images and video and give chemical explanations for important elements.  (FP: Part 3) On your blog entry, you will need…

• • • A typed introduction in which you discuss the signature outcomes of the recipe you chose. You developed these outcomes in FP: Part 1 
    • A minimum of 5 images documenting the process, but you will need to decide how many images you need to effectively document what you are trying to accomplish
    • Two videosA complete narrative in which all the steps of the recipe are accounted for, with images and video interspersed effectively.
      • A process video in which you document something you are doing during the recipe where a chemical change is occurring
      • A conclusion video in which you show the finished product and point out three signature outcomes that are demonstrated by the prepared recipe.
    • Three independent chemical explanations for three different parts of the recipe that are interspersed in the narrative at the appropriate time. Mark your chemical explanations in some way – a different font, color, etc. So I can tell where they are. 
    • A summary of the ingredients, materials, and instructions in a concise, easy-to-read format that appears somewhere else on the page (typically at the bottom) or this can be a link to a new page. 

Part 4

Infographic.  (FP: Part 4)  Your assignment is to create a series of three infographic pages to illustrate and describe the science, history, etc. of your final project.