At the end of November we went down to Seattle to work on our past unit, Cray Cray Yay Yay. We never officially finished the project but it was meant as a segway unit to get us ready for the Fantasy unit. On the first day we went to Microsoft which was really cool. We … Continue reading Seattle and The Frisbees
We did DI again this year, much to my dismay. This year I didn’t do the structural challenge, instead I did Project: Outreach. In Project: Outreach we had to take a real community in the world, with a problem and solve that problem. My group decided on the trout population of Taylor Creek. The trout live … Continue reading DI, The Bane of My Existence
We did a lab a couple of days ago in science. We used copper chloride and aluminium to create a compound called aluminum chloride that would be burned by a Bunsen burner and hopefully create a green flame. We started out with pouring some copper chloride into a beaker and then we put a square … Continue reading Compound lab
In the past little bit we have been exploring wonder, here is some of the work I have been doing on the subject. Here is the answers to a couple of questions we answered after reading an article about wonder. 1. Prinz’s experienced the circus as a place of wonder and curiosity while his parents … Continue reading The Wonder of Wonder
for the past couple of months in Maker Time we have been working on a blue sky project all about Harry Potter. Just like the previous blue sky projects we had to come up with an inquiry question that would result in a project giving an answer to the question. Now, I’m a big Harry … Continue reading Harry Potter Blue Sky Reflection
December, the month where there are tons of projects and everyone wants a break. I am no exception. School wise, in December we have four projects on the go with the Performance Learning Program (PLP). My favourite is the Harry Potter Blue Sky project. We had to make an inquiry question that related to Harry … Continue reading School Life
Lately in science we have been doing a chemistry unit. Throughout the unit we have been working on a project called the superhero project. The superhero project is a group project where the objective is to create a superhero with their super powers based off of an element. Our group chose bromine as our element. … Continue reading Superhero blog post
The metaphor machine project has come to an end. It was a great project that really showed what PLP is all about with the creation, design, the history aspect as well as all the blog posts and other parts of this unit that we have done. I really enjoyed the historical aspect of this project … Continue reading Metaphor Machine Final Blog Post
On Wednesday it was take your kid to work day. So of course I was brought to my dad’s work. My dad is an architect who has done countless projects like the Nordstrom building downtown, Woodgrove Mall in Nanaimo and pacific center food court. On Wednesday we went on a site review at Woodgrove Mall … Continue reading When Pigs Fly
Lately in class we have been starting to construct a Rube Goldberg machine and each piece of the machine had to be a metaphor for a revolution as well as everything has to have a steampunk aesthetic and we also had to include a circuit. We started off with getting a revolution to base our … Continue reading The Metaphor Machine Midway Blog Post