Here is my recommended song for this post. Well, other year has dawned on us here at PLP and of course that includes a blog post. Over the last two months we have creating documentaries all about a plutonium extraction site called Hanford. That was our final video draft but like I said it took … Continue reading The Thing That Goes Boom!
Here is my recommended song for this post. For the past month we have been doing a unit all based around the idea of how we organize ourselves. We read the famous novel, Lord of The Flies, did a debate and many activities where we learned about the Canadian government system. We began the … Continue reading Do You Need To Be a Savage To Survive?
Here is my recommended song for this post. So we recently went on a class field trip. We went to the BC Tech Summit at the Vancouver Convention Centre. There was a day during the summit called Youth Innovation Day. The day involves many speakers, mentor tables, university presentation stations and a whole lot of … Continue reading #BCTechSummit
Here is my recommended song for this post. https://open.spotify.com/track/3ZffCQKLFLUvYM59XKLbVm?si=oL6dXk5FQpWgQq0Lx4wJvg So for the past two months we have been doing a whole unit on World War 2, in humanities. We read a novel, made a website, interviewed a veteran and did in-class studies on some of the key events and battles. Now I am quite a … Continue reading WWII
So, recently in Humanities we have been researching about WWII. Our end product is a website, a podcast and a book review. This post is all about the book review. We had a choice of three books, Unbroken by: Laura Hillenbrand, Code Name Verity by: Elizabeth Wein, and All The Light We Cannot See by: … Continue reading Unbroken
Here is my recommended song for this post. So, if you haven’t read my post about California then I suggest you do. This post will make a lot more sense if you do. While we were down in Cali we were learning about a key concept of how the world grows. Not just in the … Continue reading Disruption, the Key to Making the World Awesome
Here is my recommended song for this post. So as I mentioned in my California post we went to a school called High Tech High. High Tech High is a school focused solely on PBL. (Project Based Learning) they take curriculum units and turn a whole unit into learning and then transferring the learning into … Continue reading High Tech High
Here is my recommended song for this post. Two weeks ago I got back from a trip. We went to a place more magical than Disneyworld and a lot warmer than Oregon. We went to California. Now when I think of the golden state I think of Disneyland and heat and palm trees. Not … Continue reading California, The State With More People Than Canada
It’s that time of the year again. It’s time for the all powerful mPol’s. Time for me to reflect on my current grade 10 experience. I will be covering the work I’m most proud of, the skills I have developed and want to improve, the work that showed the most teamwork and my goals for … Continue reading mPol’s, I’m still going to call it SLC’s though
Here is my suggested song for reading this post. If you want to give it a listen justtap or click. We definetly hit the ground running this term. We haven’t even been back a week before we have to do another blog post. We started a new unit all about Disruption. Now the word Disruption … Continue reading Enigma, The Code That Changed The War