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tPOL, or how I think I did this year

Today I’ll be talking about my tPOL. TPOL stands for Transitional Presentation of Learning, so transitioning into the next grade. This is the last Presentation Of Learning for the year. I am going to talk about my learning this year, what I think can help me for next year, what I need to change, and then…

PGP

This year we had a new class added called PGP. It stands for Performance Growth Plan and it shows us how to handle all our projects or even everyday life. How to better time manage them, and how to get our work done on time and make our work even better. Throughout this class we…

Clone Army: Rise of the Garlic

For this unit in Scimatics we learned about mitosis and cells. From watching a bunch of Khan Academy videos, we learned that mitosis is how plants grow by asexual reproduction. With plants you don’t need a male and a female, unlike with people. Mitosis is the process in plants where cells can copy themselves and…

Charge!!!!!!!!

In Humanities we have been learning about Canada in the 1800’s when our nation was being built. We learned about Canada’s history though watching Heritage Minutes. In PLP if you see something in class, you are probably going to be doing it. So, what is a Heritage Minute? It is actually a video of historic…

Workplace Safety (or how to make Grade 9’s squirm and cover their eyes)

Since some students are old enough to start working when they are in Grade 9, we are learning about workplace safety so we can keep ourselves safe and have something to put on our otherwise very blank resume. In B.C. there are a lot of injuries that happen with young workers. 34 workers are injured…

What is the matter with matter?

Currently in Scimatics, we have been learning about different matter cycles. A matter cycle is where matter (water, and nutrients like carbon, phosphorous and nitrogen) cycle through and are repurposed in nature. These cycles can be unbalanced by taking too much out of the cycle, or polluting the matter in the cycle, which is mostly…

DI MMM’s become just M&M’s for Provincials

Destination Imagination is a competition that PLP groups from Grades 8-10 enter each year. It offers a creative way to express your learning through a competition format with Instant Challenges and a Performance Challenge. It’s actually pretty fun. Our team this year (Medical Men of Mystery or MMM), competed in the medical challenge where we…

Destination Imagination and the Medical Men of Mystery (or MMM for short)

Each year our PLP classes from grades 8-10 participate in Destination Imagination Competitions as part of our program. I found this on the Destination Imagination BC Website: BC Original Minds Association has been a leader in creative problem-solving programs for British Columbia students since 1983. Since 1999, BCOMA has held the license to offer Destination…

The Wild West (of British Columbia)

For this project, we did a “Namesake Project”. Our driving question was “How can we help people who aren’t from BC know more about BC’s history?” Most of the class went to Victoria on a field study, but I stayed behind and worked on a Vancouver location. Before I get into the video, I wanted…

Like Terms, do I like them or not….

For this term in Scimatics, we learned about like terms. Like terms are a bit confusing and I had a hard time at first understanding them. Like terms is when you have an Algebraic expression (this is the part where a bunch of numbers and letters are written out with adding, subtracting and multiplying), and…