Masterpiece

Flour

Flour plays a significant role in cookies because depending on its ratio, it helps the cookie stay its normal circle cookie form. Without it, it would just spread all over your baking sheet creating a big mess. Flour can make cookies chewy, crisp, or even crumbly. A substitute for flour are whole-grain flour which imparts a much healthier, and nutier flavor.

Sugar

Aside from adding sweetness, specifically white sugar helps the cookies spread resulting into a thin and crispy cookie. Brown sugar also plays a huge role in cookies because of the molasses. The molasses adds moisture because it's a slightly acidic, this causes the proteins in cookie dough to firm up faster, creating a chewier texture. Substitutes you can use are coconut-sugar, and honey for a more healthier, and cleaner cookie. 

Butter

Butter is important in a cookie recipe. When mixed into flour, fat coats some of the flour and protects it from the liquid. This process prevents from gluten developing, thus making the cookies more tender and not too overly chewy. Butter also contributes flavor. Substitutes for butter are margarine, coconut canola or olive oil.

Eggs

Eggs have protein and give moisture to a cookie. The liquid in eggs gives a cookie structure. Protein helps make cookies chewy. Substitutes for eggs can be applesauce and bananas.

Salt

Salt adds flavor Because we have sugar in this recipe we need salt to even it out creating a balance to the cookie. Salt also strengthen the protein in a dough, making cookies chewier. There are no substitutes for salt.

Leavens

In your traditional cookie recipe it calls for baking soda or baking powder. The difference in these two are baking soda is sodium-bicarbonate and when you heat sodium-bicarbonate you get something called sodium-carbonate which is a soapy, bitter taste and to balance that out you will need a acid. But if you are just using baking powder the acid is already in there so you're good to go.

STANDING ON THE SHOULDERS OF GIANTS

     Today I read some previous masterpieces and I learned quite a few things. I learned about space, and planets in our solar systems. We were given some interesting facts like how NASA plans to send people to Mars in 2030. I also read about bullying, the ocean, technology and a person's career plan . I love the ocean and the Bermuda triangle just fascinated me. I didn't know there was such thing. At the end of the ocean presentation there was this photo of a shark and I didn't realize how HUGE they were and how we are a snail compared to a shark. But I enjoyed reading these presentations and what I got from it is for me it was easier reading a presentation and they had photos. I thought that is something I should do next time.

THREE JORUNALS

     I've been in this OSLA program since January so I know the basics, and how things roll here so that qualifies me to give insights and advice to whomever is considering joining the Open-Source Learning Academy for 2021-22. Here is why I love and recommend this program, you have the freedom of learning anything and everything, For example, I am working on my masterpiece (a at the end of the semester project with some information about certain things) which is going to be about the nutrition label, and baking. I had to walk about eight miles to deliver some cookies which was unexpected but this became part of my story. I can share this with my peers and give them some information about the benefits of walking. So there is really just a freedom of learning what you want to learn, and learning about other people's learning. Instead of focusing on a certain unit we can focus on simply learning.

    I have a lot on my mind. I am excited, frightened, tired. I am constantly thinking about school and what I plan to do in my future, there's never a time where I don't think about my future and that scared me. Just last night I woke up to get a glass of water and when I was returning back to my bed I asked myself that same question that I simply just cannot answer which is, "What is your plan? What are you going to do?" I am trying to get through each day, one day at a time. But I also think about my masterpiece constantly. I have this expectation and it seems perfect and exciting I just don't know how to do it but I want to I just don't know if there is going to be enough time because my masterpiece is going to be due on Wednesday.

For cleaning no one ever is truly finished. There is always something that needs to be cleaned to be spotless. In a relationship, the moment the other person says its over, its over. The feelings however still may be there. But when you don't feel anything about that person, no excitement, no anger, no regret, no guilt, no sadness, no attractiveness then it's truly over and you've moved on.

KEEPING AN OPEN MIND

 Today May 20 we discussed a lot. We were able to ask Dr. Preston a question on everything and anything. I asked him questions related to college, money, and life advice. He gave us the advice to be careful as to whom you spend the rest of your life with. He also told us about how we got accepted into Berkley and waitlisted into Stanford and why he attended UCLA. He did not know exactly what he wanted to major in because he wanted to major in everything. He told us the difference between a credit card and a debit card, and how credit is a card you can spend money on whatever but the amount of money you don't have on your card you will need to pay later and soon because  they can cost you interest. A debit card is a card you have with a certain amount of money but you cannot surpass that amount, you can't buy something greater in value than what you have in your card because it will decline your card.

THREE JOURNALS

     "Yeah, I know that guy" is used a lot in todays society. But what does it actually mean? This all depends of the person, but here's my definition of "knowing that guy". When I know that guy I at least know his/her name. I never claim to "know" a person just because I saw them one time in my class. When you know a person it's because you know something a stranger wouldn't know. If I am really close to the person I'd say something like this "Yeah, I know that guy, we are good friends" This explains that I actually KNOW KNOW the person.

    Time stresses me out. I think about several times where I needed things ready and done whether it be a cake that I wanted to bring or getting ready to go someplace. When I was younger I didn't have to worry about those types of stuff, I never had stress when I was younger but now I practically experience it everyday. 

END GAME

     This week I plan to have all the information on a nutrition label, and the science behind baking, such as what elements can change what in a dessert. I plan to have my cookies baked and done. Hopefully, I can deliver them before Tuesday. To be able to receive feedback as soon as possible. I plan to make a google form to get that feedback on Tuesday. I plan to make a video on my topics, I feel like it's faster, and I don't have to worry about grammar as much as I would have on writing. I want to record on Thursday and have it done edited on Friday.

YEAH I KNOW

 I will know whether or not my masterpiece gave all the information needed by asking them questions about it. It's not a quiz to see how much you weren't paying attention nor that you didn't get it but rather it gives me the feedback I need, to see how well I gave the information out. 

HOW I'LL KNOW YOU KNOW WHAT I KNOW

 10 questions the reader should be able to answer:

- Where do carbs come from?

-What good are healthy fats for?

-What is the difference between saturated fats and trans fats?

-What are examples of healthy sugar?

-What happens when you consume too much sodium in your lifetime?

-Why are proteins necessary?

-What is a calorie?

-What are carbohydrates?

- What happens if you don't take your carbs?

-What happens if you take too much sugar in your lifetime?

THREE JOURNALS

 I think the school board's decision was wrong. There are thousands of students going to school and it's not a humongous campus neither for everyone to maintain six-foot distance. I just wonder why they made this decision, obviously people still have to wear mask and maintain distance so its still not 100% safe. People are still at risk and there are a lot of students who act like four-year olds and don't care about the rules.

CURRENCY FOR PAYING ATTENTION

     The definition of cognitive dissonance is the mental discomfort experienced by a person who holds two or more beliefs, ideas, or values. An example of this is a lawyer who has to defend a client whom she/he thinks is actually guilty. Another example of this is the fable of  "The Fox and the Grapes" by Aesop. A fox spies high-hanging grapes and desires to eat them. He is unable to reach the grapes so he convinces himself that the grapes are not worth eating and he justifies his decision, claiming to himself, that the grapes are likely sour and unripe. This story is illustrated in a way where it indicates that: When a person desires something and finds it unattainable, he/she diminishes it by criticizing the object of desire as worthless.

THREE JOURNALS

     The pros of rain are it can be very relaxing. I see videos of rain falling on the floor and it has millions of views because of the effect it can have on people. The plants also love the rain, and I love the rain for the plants as well. When there is misty, beautiful rain it's one of the best feelings there is. The cons of rain is it gets wet. Getting wet when you are not showering or at the beach is very frustrating because there is a possibility of stepping in a puddle of rain and feeling disgusting. It also gets very cold especially when you aren't prepared for it. But other than that, the rain is not annoying to me. I like to cuddle up in a blanket and drink something warm like a tea, or chocolate. 

    How am I today? That is a great question. I am ok, although I have problems that I cannot stop think about. I am thankful for what I have though, and when you are thankful you are happy. Yesterday was a great, PERFECT may I say, day. I loved it, I was the happiest but that was yesterday. There are problems that occurred today such as, my mom thinks I lost her "expensive" earbuds, my mom found out I have my phone back when she took it away, my internet decided to stop working right when I was goin to work on my assignments, and my mom also went through all my stuff and found that I have supplements for weight loss that she forbid me to take. But other than that I am GREAT. I feel amazing, and I'm ready for a great week ahead of me.

    Home is wherever you come to at the end of the day. It's where you can sleep and feel safe. A home can be an actual house, trailer, or even your car. There doesn't have to be any people living with you necessarily. A home is where you change, get ready, eat, bath, and sleep. 

SAFTEY IN NUMBERS

TODAY A STUDENT BECAME A MASTER

 Today I listened to my peer, Zoe Ward. Her key interests are Korean language, Korean desserts. anime and drama, screen writing, Korean culture and language. Zoe learned about new recipes, tips and advice for creating Korean food. The weakest source Zoe found was Disney. Although Zoe grew up to love Disney she just wasn't feeling it. Zoe's strongest sources were CNN, a trusted T.V company Zoe trusts. She also concluded that Rakuten Viki was a strong source because she is familiar with it and has been using the website for a while now. Lastly, Zoe concluded that Webtoon was also a website she confides in because of the comments and rating people have left on both their app and website.

FINAL MASTERPIECE RESEARCH PHASE ONE

 I am fascinated by the human behavior. The way people respond to certain situations and possibilities as to why they respond to these certain situations.

Here's what I found:

http://sciencenetlinks.com/lessons/lying/

This is a lesson on a specific topic, lying. As soon as I found this page I wanted to know more about it. Lying is a great example of how humans respond to certain situations by lying and why they lie. I find this source reliable because this source is based of science books on psychology of lying. These books include, Charles V Ford's Lies! Lies! Lies!: The Psychology of Deceit and Alder Vrij's Detecting Lies and Deceit: The Psychology of Lying and the Implications for Professional Practice (John Wiely and Sons, 2000) I find these books credible because of these people's relationship and practice to psychology. 

https://www.apa.org/ed/precollege/topss/lessons/psychological-disorders.pdf

One of the big topics in human behavior are disorders. They are such an important topic because of high high disorders cases have gone from 2011. They talk about what exactly is a disorder and how it affects people. They also talk/compare cases from back then and how taught us a thing or two about it. I find this source reliable because it was a free unit lesson plan specifally for highschool psychology teachers. I think this fits so perfectly with me and I learned a lot from it. 

https://www.apa.org/ed/precollege/topss/lessons/stress-health.pdf

Stress plays a big factor in many people's life and it can damage our mental health. This relates to human behavior because it talks about how people stress, and what that can look like. It teaches us how to cope with it and how we can help others whether that be just listening to them and know what to say to prevent them from feeling bad about stressing. I find this source credible because instead of saying dot com at the end it says org dot com. It's different and I can see that it is an organization and it is published by a group. It also is an free unit lesson plan for high school teachers who teach psychology. 

https://www.apa.org/ed/precollege/topss/lessons/memory.pdf

    I have a photographic memory. It's one of the things that makes unique and I like to be proud of that and am interested about memories and why some people have better memories than others. It states this unit helps students understand encoding of memory, storage memory, and retrieval of the memory. It gives you the deal on memory and all the information there is to know about memory. This relates to the human behavior because memory can affect the way we see people and how we respond to them because of certain memories we've kept. 

https://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-causes-headaches-dan-kwartler

    When I first saw What Causes Headaches? I knew I had to watch the video. This connects both my key instrests of, psyhcology and nutrition. Psychology is how we feel, human behavior is connected to headaches because it can affect how we respond to people and it can makes us feel like we don't want to talk to anybody at the moment. Nutrition is connected to headaches because it's what we (don't) eat/drink that causes headaches and how nutrition can play a big role in causing headaches or avoiding them. This source is credible because everyone knows about TedEd. I may not know the speaker nor what he does (Dan Kwartler) but I know TedEd has bought some professional speakers to speak such as Dr. Preston, himself.

https://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-sugar-affects-the-brain-nicole-avena

    This video is another Ted talk and it talks about sugar and the impact it might have on you. I've always been fasincated by the side affects to sugar. I love sugar but I want to know the side-affects to eating this delicous creation and want to be informed so i can provide information with the people I love so I can then inform them. By learning how sugar might affect the brain we can see that this relates to both my nutrioton and human behavior key intrest. The speaker, Nichole Avena is an author, a research neuroscientist and a pioneer in the field of food addiction. Avena has pusblished many books talking about obesity, what to eat when you are pregnant or have a baby and what to feed the baby or toddler. 

THREE JOURNALS

 Today is Earth day. It is important we take care of the earth because without it we'd be probably dead. I think it's time we give back. Simple ways we can all take care of mother earth are by, using less plastic. This includes, bags, paper plates, canned fruit, and straws. It's time we throw trash in the trash can and recycle things that should be recycled. We can pick up the trash we see around us. For instance, I like to pick up the trash outside my house and do my neighbor a favor by picking up their trash and so on.

I'M WORTH IT

 I am worth investing in because I know I can do so many things, and I have true potential. I work hard for what I want and what I want is to become a more smarter, wiser, creative person.

ITS BEST TO GIVE AND RECIEVE

 Today I helped someone with their masterpiece by giving them examples of masterpieces Dr. Preston would like to see and ones to stay out, such as PowerPoint and slides. I thought about my masterpiece and I have a good idea on what I would like to do and how I would like to present it.

THREE JOURNALS

    "Water water every here and not a drop to drink" What I think this means is although we are being surrounded by something we cannot benefit from it, so its basically worthless. This relates to sacristy because you can't drink the water that is all around you no matter how thirsty you may be. This relates to abundance because the ocean is enormous. It's everywhere when you are stuck in the middle of the ocean. It goes on for miles and miles and its all water you cannot drink because it is toxic to your body and can kill you. 

CURIOSITY BRINGS THIS CAT TO LIFE

     I chose the Scholatstic article about curiosity because it was familiar. Curiosity is an asset because it helps keep the learner motivated and interested. There's that feeling of freedom when we are kept curious, and it makes learning a lot more fun. Curiosity is an asset because it helps keep our minds more active and it becomes stronger. Three ways we can build our own capacity for curiosity is by asking questions no matter how stupid they may seem. We need to embrace our doubts about the things we need to know. We also need to open to trying new things out to build our capacity for curiosity. A way we can improve Open Source Learning Academy to support curiosity is to have more teamwork, more breakout room time. Curiosity is so critical to achieve success without feeling drained at the end of the year but rather feel proud and joyful.

MY TOPICS CHOSEN FOR SCIENCE

 As I scrolled through Unit 1: Matter and Energy in Living Systems I realized I knew a lot about science, but there were a few topics that interested and I would like to study more, such as, The Language of Chemistry, Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration.