Since this past weekend ended the Lunar New Year, I celebrated with Chinese.
Steaming is a centuries old method of cooking, that integrates water and heat to cook food to perfection. The use of bamboo to create a steamer is an ingenious way to utilize the plentiful natural resource of bamboo. Ask anyone who has planted a stand of bamboo how quickly it grows and takes over. Technology that still works perfectly today!
How does this possibly relate to my capstone project?
This week I worked diligently to pull the intervention elements of my curriculum into one easy to navigate site. I choose using a Google site as we are becoming a very Google centric school; offering an easy way for my class to share the information. There will be a link to this site on my teacher webpage.
The basics; like the method of cooking demonstrated above, are focused on the elements of STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math) within the field of Family & Consumer Science. Using some very basic tools, I feel that I can introduce the students to the connection their core subjects have to life. The basic site offers the opportunity to add more content; as it becomes more relevant to the curriculum and the needs of the students.
A benefit of this site; it is very much like the steamer, it can be multi-layered, offering lots of product in one very easy to handle container. As I completed the site, I immediately thought of additional tabs and pages that could be added, increasing the amount of material available to the students.
I must say, I have managed to get out of my fog of the previous week, and am moving forward towards a delicious end product.
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