The second, and what feels like the biggest, unit of the year is finally coming to a close. We spent two months creating a podcast, reading a book, writing an essay and doing a ton of research and learning. The topic was the emergence of Vancouver, how it was made and how it got to … Continue reading PassivHaus, The Way of The Future
So, recently in humanities we have been learning about the history of Vancouver. Our end project is a podcast focusing on a certain topic that pertains to Vancouver’s history. My group is doing city development. On top of the project we are also doing an literary essay about a book we are reading in class. … Continue reading Lonsdale
For the very first humanities unit we learned about World War One. We started off by looking at Canada before the war and how it was doing socially and economically. After doing a short project on that we looked at how the war began. We did a project on that which is the subject of … Continue reading The Great War (It wasn’t very great though)
Recently in Humanities we began a unit all about World War 1. Before we could get into the actual events of the war we looked at how it began. First we looked at Canada’s position before the war by doing a group keynote. Everyone was divided into different groups and we had to create a … Continue reading The Great War and Why it Began
For the last month and a bit we have been doing a unit all about Canada. We started by looking at the explorers coming across the Atlantic and worked our way up to the two Canada’s, upper and lower. We then talked about the confederation of Canada and its events after. For this post … Continue reading The Greatest Moment of Canadian History
Once again it is time for an SLC but this time it is called a TPol or transitional presentation of learning. The big new thing with a TPol is that we have to almost “sell” why we should move on to the next grade. Now instead of having the work we are most proud of, … Continue reading TPol’s the new SLC’s
Now is the time to reflect on the biggest project of the year. The Frankenstuffie unit. We covered ecology, surface area, volume and geography. The first step of the project was to make our math monsters. Which we would include into our stories. Then we focused on ecology and exploring the relations between organisms and … Continue reading Frankenstuffies!!
It’s finally over!! So, you know how we went down to Florida and we had to do a video on how we are drawn to imaginary worlds. Well after months of working on multiple drafts we are all finally done. I have done a total of six drafts each with major improvements, except for the … Continue reading Making Fantasy Real
Right before we headed off to spring break Ms. Willemse told us we were going to have some people come in and help us with creating a video. The topic of the video was presented as a question “What does Canada mean to you?” We spent a couple of classes brainstorming on why we were … Continue reading What Does Canada Mean To You?
So we just got back from Florida and Disney World and I’m really tired and I want to sleep all day. It was a great trip that was really fun and exciting. On the first day we got a flight to Seattle and then to Orlando. 5 long hours and two movies later we arrived … Continue reading Going One Direction to Flo Rida