A big part of our trip to San Diego was our time spent at High Tech High. HTH is a different kind of school, but is also directly connected with PLP. We are not connected through the use of technology, in fact HTH isn’t High Tech compared to your average school at all, the similarities […]
This is the third year that we have student lead conferences, or SLCs. Last year the name changed to TPOL (transitional presentation of learning,) and this year the name of the earlier one was changes to MPOL (Midyear Presentation of Learning.) Also the format has changed. Before we would share 3 things, one that would […]
Even though it is already 2018, not too log ago was still 2017, ad how did I end 2017? Well, because I am a PLP student of course I spent it preparing for the annual winter exhibition. In the past 2 years, our winter exhibitions have been different from each other, they are all based […]
Not too many years ago, if we wanted to know about a huge event that happened, whether it’s good or it is bad, we would check primary news sources. We would read the newspaper, watch the news, and eventually we would look on the big news websites. But this has changed. In our modern age […]
When we talk about math and art, we tend to talk about them separately. In school this is very true, math class and art class are very separate topics and ideas, but for this project it is a very different situation. We were presented with a challenge: to make a piece of art or music […]
Vancouver is what some people call the perfect city, from the tall, glimmering buildings of downtown, all the way to the forested mountains of North Vancouver and everything in between. But no city is perfect. Vancouver has it’s own fair share of ‘sins’. In this project we are focusing on all of those, we were […]
Right now we are working on a larger project about Vancouver and it’s growth, and this project is like a smaller version of this.Also that large project is a podcast, this was a video. We were assigned an area of Vancouver in those groups to make the video about. Me Aiden and Kate were assigned Kitsilano. The task was to […]
So the bidinning of this unit was a bit of a review, so in the very beginning we did a really quick mind map about what we could remember about DNA and genetics. I couldn’t remember much. Then for a review, because a lot of us remembered as much as I did. The video was […]
So for most grade 10s at around this age, we all start to enter the workforce, maybe working a summer job or maybe through the winter as well. This summer I was part of this group, I worked the whole summer at Osaka Sushi in Deep Cove and towards the end of the summer I […]
What can Trigonometry be used for in the world around us? That question is often used when talking about why we learn trigonometry, and it’s a good one. There are not many triangles in nature, but there’s a lot in things like building, design and architecture. This relates also to clean energy, when people put solar […]