My Project
In this project my group was tasked with solving a problem related to water. We decided that for our project we were going to create a better vitamin water. We needed to make something that was healthy to drink and would give the percipient a majority of their missing vitamins. In order to find what vitamins and minerals would need to be in out water we first tracked down what each of us ate in one day. We then found out what vitamins we got and what we were missing. This allowed us to know the key vitamins that would need to be present in our water. We then stumbled on the fact that prunes have a large amount of vitamins. We mashed up prunes and squeezed them to create a prune juice that when mixed with vitamin water would give us all the vitamins we needed. We then theorized fermenting the vitamin mixture in order to remove the sugar. We could then boil out the alcohol as it has a cooler boiling point than water. The final product would be a mostly sugarless drink that would give someone the vitamins they were missing.
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Content
Solution: A liquid mixture in which a solute is dissolved into a solvent. In our project we dissolved prune into water.
Solute: The part of the solution that dissolves into the solvent. In our project this was the prunes.
Solvent: The part of a solution that the solute dissolves into. In our project this was the water.
Polarity: The electromagnetically of an atom.
Ionic vs. Molecular: Molecular compounds are multiple atoms combined together whereas Ionic compounds are the compound of a metal and a non-metal.
Solubility: The ability for a solute to dissolve into water. Prune juice is soluble and able to dissolve into water.
Fermentation: The chemical breakdown of a substance by yeast or bacteria. In our project fermentation would be used in order to remove the sugar from our vitamin water.
Nutrient: A substance that provides nourishment to an organism. In our project we tried to put a large amount of nutrients into our water.
Solute: The part of the solution that dissolves into the solvent. In our project this was the prunes.
Solvent: The part of a solution that the solute dissolves into. In our project this was the water.
Polarity: The electromagnetically of an atom.
Ionic vs. Molecular: Molecular compounds are multiple atoms combined together whereas Ionic compounds are the compound of a metal and a non-metal.
Solubility: The ability for a solute to dissolve into water. Prune juice is soluble and able to dissolve into water.
Fermentation: The chemical breakdown of a substance by yeast or bacteria. In our project fermentation would be used in order to remove the sugar from our vitamin water.
Nutrient: A substance that provides nourishment to an organism. In our project we tried to put a large amount of nutrients into our water.
Reflection
In this project two things I did well were my communication and my creativity. I was able to communicate easily and clearly with my teammates. This helps us work together and generate new ideas making are project work time flow better. I also had some very creative ideas this project. For example, I found out how we could use fermentation. Some of these ideas stuck and some did not go through, but having them in the first place ended up adding more substance to our project.
Two things I did poorly were my work ethic and my conscientious learning. I found that I was not spending as much time working on my project as I should have and I hope that next project I will be able to spend more time working. I also did not practice conscientious learning as good as I should. I need to spend more time focusing on the content we are learning and connecting that to my project.
Two things I did poorly were my work ethic and my conscientious learning. I found that I was not spending as much time working on my project as I should have and I hope that next project I will be able to spend more time working. I also did not practice conscientious learning as good as I should. I need to spend more time focusing on the content we are learning and connecting that to my project.