So lately in math we have been learning about blueprints and scale diagrams. As a final project we made our own dream houses. We used all that we learned about scale and blueprints like the code for kitchens, how to find the square footage and the prices per. Square footage. We started out with finding … Continue reading Dream House and the Super Bowl room
So for the last week and a half we have been making a visual essay using explain everything about the cause and consequences of the invention of trains and railroads in Britain during the Industrial Revolution. We created three drafts for this mini-project. The first draft was critiqued by peers as well as the second … Continue reading Railroad Visual Essay
So, after finishing the first blog post we have to do another, of course. This blog post is about the amazing genre of Steampunk. Lately we have been reading a book called Leviathan by Scott Westerfield (great book) all about Steampunk and World War One. We read this book because of our beautiful project called … Continue reading Comparing Steampunk Stories To Other Story Genres
Since returning to school (sadly) we started a new unit all about revolutions. We talked about some different famous revolutions including the French, Industrial and more. After discussing various revolutions we were introduced to a theory by a historian with the name of Crane Brinton. Crane looked at six different revolutions; French Revolution, American Revolution, … Continue reading Current and Recent Revolutions compared to Crane Brinton’s Theory
I had a very busy summer this year I went on four different trips and I’m about to go on another. My first trip was to a scout property on the Sunshine Coast. Every summer there is a summer camp run for two weeks. I decided to volunteer at the summer camp. All of the … Continue reading Summer Stuff
In the past month in Maker Time we have been working on a really big year end project. We call it Blue Sky. For our Blue Sky project we had to look at a problem and design a solution for it took me a while to come up with an idea that was possible to do … Continue reading Blue Sky project and Exhibition
Well I didn’t expect this, we have to do year end SLC’s as well. Although it was kinda obvious I was still surprised when I heard about it. For this SLC we had to talk about the work we are most proud of, the work we wish we could improve and a reflection of our … Continue reading SLC’s Again!
In the last week and a half, in humanities, we did a maritime exploration unit. We first looked at how the motivation to explore came about. Which includes the Islamic conquering of Constantinople and blocking the Asian trade route from Europeans. This then made the Europeans start to think about going the western way to … Continue reading Maritime Exploration is Deeper Than You Think
For scimatics we were working on geometry and light. As a unit project we were tasked with making a physical representation of the First Nations story ” How Raven Brought The Light.” We also had to include geometry, like cylinders and prisms, and different aspects of light, like refraction and reflection. When I first heard … Continue reading Raven is a sun stealer
When we were done the explain everythings we started an iBook. As a class we were assigned roles. I was assigned to the writer group along with Adam and Makyla. The writers job was to write introductions for each religion and also the big introduction for the IBook. I did the introductions for the new … Continue reading IBooks, The books of the future