Science
I am earning .5 science credits for:
Herbalism
I have been attending Herb School, with a few other Pilot students. It’s great, we learn about herbalism and how to practice it at a basic level, as well as the more complex stuff that is happening in the body as well.
I have made a few concrete things in this project. The first is a ginger salve (made with ginger infused coconut oil, and beeswax), calendula infused honey, and I am working on a materia medica for ginger.
I have also learned about a few concepts in very concrete ways. I have been learning about the nervous system, both in a “lecture” setting, where the herb school mentors explained its basic functions to us and we took notes, and by reading the biology textbook, and taking notes. It is very nice to be prescribed work like this, it’s unambitious and relaxing in some sense, and very enjoyable to just consume information. I have also been learning about action words, which are the words that describe the effects that specific herbs have on the body.
This coming quarter I am developing an experiment about the flavor of ginger tea in relation to the temperature that the water it is steeped in is, and will continue to attend herb school.
I made my ginger tea experiment. I’m not sure you could call it successful, in the end the test results were too varied to come to any conclusion from them (see right). But the experiment did follow the scientific process, and promoted more questioning of the properties of the materiels I was working with, in my lab report.
I continued to read sections of the bio textbook that explored body systems, particularly the immune, and circulatory systems. The bio textbook is very pleasant, because while it is not particularly interesting, it is very easy to read which is deely refreshing.
When spring began in earnest, and all the plants started to grow again, herb school got great. We were more able to go out for walks in the woods, and work on identifying plants. This is something that I have expressed interest in from the beginning of this study, and when we used Newcomb’s Wildflower Guide to identify a number of plants during one of our meetings I was very happy. I think that identification using a dichotomous key is very interesting, and if there was more time, would be something that I would be exploing in greater depth.
I spent most of this study focusing fairly broadly, and only went in depth with one plant, ginger, for a longer period of time, during this semester I made a Materia Medica for it, drawn from various sources across the internet.
I did this study out of necessity, I needed the ½ science credit to graduate, but I do feel very satisfied by it. If I had taken a conventional class I don’t believe that I would have felt so attached to this knowledge. While this is not one of my most polished studies, it has served me well, and it has really widened my horizons.
Structure and Function
I made a Materia Medica for Ginger (Zingiber officinale).
I have notes from my readings on the circulatory, digestive, and nervous systems.
Change, Cause, and Effect
I am developed and did the Ginger Tea Experiment.
I am exploring the ways that plants affect the body in terms of different delivery methods. Such as salve vs. oil, or tea vs. decoction, etc.
I am earning .5 science credits for:
- Herbalism
Herbalism
I have been attending Herb School, with a few other Pilot students. It’s great, we learn about herbalism and how to practice it at a basic level, as well as the more complex stuff that is happening in the body as well.
I have made a few concrete things in this project. The first is a ginger salve (made with ginger infused coconut oil, and beeswax), calendula infused honey, and I am working on a materia medica for ginger.
I have also learned about a few concepts in very concrete ways. I have been learning about the nervous system, both in a “lecture” setting, where the herb school mentors explained its basic functions to us and we took notes, and by reading the biology textbook, and taking notes. It is very nice to be prescribed work like this, it’s unambitious and relaxing in some sense, and very enjoyable to just consume information. I have also been learning about action words, which are the words that describe the effects that specific herbs have on the body.
This coming quarter I am developing an experiment about the flavor of ginger tea in relation to the temperature that the water it is steeped in is, and will continue to attend herb school.
I made my ginger tea experiment. I’m not sure you could call it successful, in the end the test results were too varied to come to any conclusion from them (see right). But the experiment did follow the scientific process, and promoted more questioning of the properties of the materiels I was working with, in my lab report.
I continued to read sections of the bio textbook that explored body systems, particularly the immune, and circulatory systems. The bio textbook is very pleasant, because while it is not particularly interesting, it is very easy to read which is deely refreshing.
When spring began in earnest, and all the plants started to grow again, herb school got great. We were more able to go out for walks in the woods, and work on identifying plants. This is something that I have expressed interest in from the beginning of this study, and when we used Newcomb’s Wildflower Guide to identify a number of plants during one of our meetings I was very happy. I think that identification using a dichotomous key is very interesting, and if there was more time, would be something that I would be exploing in greater depth.
I spent most of this study focusing fairly broadly, and only went in depth with one plant, ginger, for a longer period of time, during this semester I made a Materia Medica for it, drawn from various sources across the internet.
I did this study out of necessity, I needed the ½ science credit to graduate, but I do feel very satisfied by it. If I had taken a conventional class I don’t believe that I would have felt so attached to this knowledge. While this is not one of my most polished studies, it has served me well, and it has really widened my horizons.
Structure and Function
I made a Materia Medica for Ginger (Zingiber officinale).
I have notes from my readings on the circulatory, digestive, and nervous systems.
Change, Cause, and Effect
I am developed and did the Ginger Tea Experiment.
I am exploring the ways that plants affect the body in terms of different delivery methods. Such as salve vs. oil, or tea vs. decoction, etc.