For grade 9 there is a province wide take your kid to work day! Sadly I had field hockey provincials the exact same week so I couldn’t go. So my teacher and I made a new driving question and task for field hockey provincials. My task was to make a documentary about Provincials and the driving question was: “How does field hockey affect your career choices in the future?”. So without further ado lets get into it!

Task!

Criteria for the video: 

This is the criteria for my documentary and reading this sparked my ideas. I was really excited about the digitally enhanced criteria because I could use a bunch of cool transitions and videos from playing field hockey. For the interviews got to meet a bunch of people who had an interesting life in field hockey. I got to meet a Canadian national team member who played in the Olympic’s and she got a bronze metal at the field hockey World Cup. I also got to meet a Canadian national team coach who gave us some great advice. Here’s a video of my favourite interview: 

My video!

Finally I loved making this video and credit to Eleanor a grade 8 on our team for filming so many moments on the pitch. Make sure to check out my video:

How does field hockey affect your career choices in the future?

Personally over this tournament I have realized that it can affect my life in many ways. All I hope is that I’m happy wherever I end it up and that is how I want field hockey to affect my life! That’s my provincials blog!

Make sure to check out more of my posts!

“Thank you for coming to my presentation of learning. I am the expert on my own learning. I am also responsible and accountable for my own learning. You can expect me to give an honest evaluation of my progress. We will discuss my strengths and opportunities for growth. Thank you in advance for listening and for offering feedback that I can use to improve as a learner.”

How can you showcase evidence to demonstrate that PLP success behaviours have prepared you to advance the next grade?

I can showcase evidence to demonstrate that PLP success behaviours have prepared me to advance into grade 9. The success behaviour I have picked are accepting feedback, contribution, focus, and balance and these success behaviours will show you that I’m ready for grade 9!

Accepting feedback 

There are two projects that have let me grow from accepting feedback;“The Wilderness Must Be Explored” and “Working With Words”

Working with Words

In this project I learned how to put my thought in to poems. In this project we made a selection of poems critiquing each one as we went along. Here’s an example of one of my poems and how I accepted feedback: 

In this first draft I used some examples that are not obviously true and i got critiqued saying make the statement obvious so more people can connect to it so here’s my second draft: 

Now if you liked that poem here’s a book full of them: 

Now after practicing the skill of accepting feedback we had more of a challenge with our next project:

The wilderness must be explored

For this project I learned that language inspires adventure. This project was all about advertisement for Oregon and improving it! We got selected into groups for the exhibition. My group was Siena, Sam, Cole, and Elsa and we got the topic ‘excitement and escape!’ So we designed our slogan. Here it is “Escape the Ordinary, Embrace the Excitement”. So check out my first draft of this ad: 

This is a rough draft and needs major feedback. Luckily i got that feedback from my peers and Ms McWillaim. My first critique was that I should change the image to something more exciting and change the font. So I changed the image to a beautiful landscape photo and drew a guy zip lining in it becuase I thought that was the most exciting part of Oregon. For the font our group chose the coffee break font:

This is my second draft and i got told it was much better! This ad still needed a lot of work. So my critique was to change my font colour for the small text from black to white. 

Finally we could see the small text but not enough so i expanded the text and put it in the bottom left corner. For the slogan i got told to curve it, because it adds more pop. Also to simplify, so I deleted “it’s the place to be” and just changed it to “Oregon”. Here’s my final draft:

These projects really helped me on accepting feedback back and then applying it!

Balance 

My next success behaviour is balance. Now balance can mean a lot things but, today it means balancing my time and effort. My two best examples of this are “Power play or how it started” and my “overall blog posts”. So I’m going to start off with blog posts.

My awesome and radical blog posts! 

So in PLP we have to blog post just like this one. Why I’m talking about this in balance is since we do not get a lot of class time to work on blog posts. This means we have to set time aside to be able to write these blog posts and over the first few months I was struggling to make time. An example would be my winter exhibition post (link it)! I had a week to start it but, struggled making time for it so i did it in the last two days rushing it and I felt like it wasn’t my best work. After 2 more blog posts i finally realized how much easier it would be just to start it earlier and work on it so i could be done and feel relaxed. The best example of me starting early is my “Mind Over Matter” blog post. I started it a week before the dead line and when I was done I had 3 days left and was very happy with myself! Heres a link to the blog post:

https://www.blog44.ca/eloiseg/2024/06/10/small-but-mighty/#respond

This was a great example of balance but the next one is much better!:

Power Play And How It Started

In this project there was a book called “Book Of The Lion”, this book was long and didn’t really hook me. This book was split into three sections and we had a a different role each week that related to our section of the book. For the first section I was the Investigator! My job was to find information and relate it in a diagram to the book. The problem was I had a great idea but didn’t calculate my time that well and ended up rushing the book a bit because I would leave it to the last minute. That meant I had to rush my connector role. This is what I did but, keep in mind i stayed up late to make it look good! Here’s a diagram relating the book to to my Today project:

Now when I started my third section I was much more prepared. I had finished my book with a lot of time to spare meaning i could start my role much sooner. This time i was the investigator which means i find information related to the book and share it in a fun way. For this fun way i decided to make a fun video and it is very obvious the difference between the first section and the third section!!!:

Contributions 

Now we have  contributions, this is not only my contributions to a project but, handling my group contribution. So I have two projects to demonstrate my contribution and my groups those projects are “Destination Imagination” and “The Spring Exhibition”! So lets start with DI!!

Destination imagination 

Destination imagination is where your group receives a challenge to over come while telling a story. My task was to make a catapult that throws a bean bag in the exact same spot every single time and to build a story around it. I chose this project for contribution because this is a project where everyone needs to lend a hand. I felted I contributed a lot to this project and I worked really hard on it. The hard part was learning how to get my peers interested in the project and contributing the same amount. To do this my group and I all shared what we were interested about in this project and tried putting those interests to good use by including that in our performance. Here’s some pictures of my group in DI!!!   

That’s one example of me contributing to my projects but, the next one is even better, “The Spring Exhibition”

Spring Exhibition

 For this exhibition I could not be there for the actual event so I felt very bad. I felt my contribution was going to be poor because of that so I decided I would contribute more to the preparation. I helped build the zip line. I brought reusable water balloons, I came up with the idea for the foods which were cookies and apple juice. I was really happy with myself because I didn’t just let myself slack off.

Focus 

Focus is a big part of grade 8 because in all grade 8 classes you need to be  switched on!! An example of a project I needed to stayed switched on was “Small But Mighty”! So let’s get into it.

Small But Mighty 

One of the first things we did in this project was a Field Journal for a science project! Each class you had to take a picture of the experiment and make observations. For my experiment I asked a question about what cleans better, hand sanitizer or dish soap? We put bacteria on a Petri dish and put handsanitizer on one and dish soap on another. Once we had done that we needed to take pictures each day while making observations Heres some of my keynote slides of the observations.

So this projects defines focus! Now for my goals!!!!

My goal for grade 9!

My goals for grade 9 are:

1. To set realistic goals for my peers and I in group projects

2. To manage sports with work

3.  Give myself enough time so I can be proud of all my work!

That’s my T pol blog!!

Are you ready to see our final humanities project for grade 8? Well if you are lets get straight to it.

How Does Language Inspire Adventure?

Language inspires adventure because you can communicate your adventure to others which sparks others interests! We learned this through the power of advertisement by making ads for places we visit! 

Quarry Rock!

Quarry rock is where our first advertisement started. To prepare for Oregon we made an advertisement for Quarry Rock, a place in deep cove.  If you ever have time check it out see this link:  https://www.vancouvertrails.com/trails/quarry-rock/.

Anyway in my ad I focused on the thought of how one adventure can turn into many more. So check out my first draft of this advertisement.

I know this first draft definitely needs to be fixed . This is the hardest part of the project taking feed back and applying it. So for this ad my feed back was: drop the background, make the image the big picture. So this is my second draft!

Now that I had done my second draft we had another round of feedback! My critique was to remove all borders and delete all the extra text and change it to Quarry Rock. Check out my final draft! What do you think?

Oregon!

Now we need to make an ad about Oregon, but how can we make an ad about Oregon when we haven’t been to Oregon? So that’s just what we did, we went to Oregon! We made a book about Oregon, we recorded most places we went to check it out, my favourite part of Oregon was the zip lining: 

Making the ads for our Spring Exhibition! 

Now in PLP we have to do an end of the year spring exhibition and we are presenting ads in a group, my group was Siena, Elsa, Sam, and Cole! Now we actually need to make the ads, for the ads, each group was given a theme for there ad. Ours was excitement and escape! So of course we had to relate it to zip lining (sadly I did not do that in my first draft) in Oregon cause that was the most exciting part of Oregon. Check out my ad:

Now I had to critique my ad ten times, so I’m going to save you 10 minutes and tell you what my whole ad needed. My ad needed the picture to be adjusted and changed, the words in the slogan needed to become curved, the white text to become bigger and be moved to the bottom, so I could add zip lining to the picture. Here’s mine and my groups finals drafts:

Spring exhibition prep!

To get ready for the spring exhibition we needed to make a moving ad, print out our final ads, have an inactive element, something to make our campaign shine, and food (mandatory for every exhibition to have food). So we each took on separate challenges Elsa made the Moving ad check out the video:

Siena and I made an interactive Zip line that delivers a water balloon to someone at the exhibition and they got to throw it at one of our group members. The reason we did a water element is that when we went zip lining we got dunked in water on one of the zip lines. Siena and I also made a balloon Arc to make our campaign shine. Heres a picture of the balloon arc:

Sam made an interactive pamphlet for others to look at and Cole was designed a t-shirt. Last but not least the food we decided to serve cookies was apple juice because half way through the zip lining they gave us that exact meal!

Spring exhibition!

Sadly I couldn’t be there for the actual exhibition but here is a picture of my group at the exhibition!(I did help with set-up).

Answer to the driving question!

Laungaue inspires adventure because what is adventure without telling everyone or suggesting it to one another. If you see an inspiring text about a places in history or a mountain then you will go for the challenge/adventure. I learned this through going to Oregon because the teachers made us really excited about zip lining. So naturally that made it one of the most waited for activities. This is why I think language inspires adventure!

That was my spring exhibition make sure to check out my other blog posts!

This was a gigantic project, so i have a lot to share. Let’s get into it! Our knowledge of cell biology contributes to public health because we can learn good habits about how to take care of our body.

Field Journal!

Our first project we worked on was our field journal. In this project we learned about observational skills to make our field journal. But what was our field journal? Our field journal was broken into  5 topics to make a science experiment: 

1. Asking a question: We had to ask a question about a topic that has something to do with germs. My question was “Which kills more bacteria; Body Care hand sanitizer or Sunlight dish soap?
2. Hypothesis/Prediction: In any science experiment you need to have a prediction or hypothesis. Here is my hypothesis: I hypothesize  that the  Sunlight dish soap will be more effective on the bacteria.
3. Test/Checking: you can’t do a science experiment with out the tools to test your prediction so we made a list to answer our question:
4. Observations: to get data from the test we had to make observations, mostly physical observations were made. These results were made over 10 Days!                    
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5. Last we got see our findings and to see if our prediction was right or wrong. Here are my findings: Overall in my experiment, dish soap is more effective in preventing the growth of bacteria. Hand sanitizer is still a good way to fight bacteria but according to my experiments, I would stick to washing your hands. My prediction was right, Dish soap wins! That’s my field journal and project and I learned so much from it. I learned that observations have to be precise and true in everyone’s eyes! 

Immune system characters!

My next part was immune system characters! In this part of the project I learned  how to communicate my knowledge in a way where everyone understands! In this project we had to make characters for B Cells, white blood cells, pathogens, antibodies, macrophages, and T cells! These characters could be our own or related to movies or shows. I did the minions because i felt that there was a spot for each cell or bacteria. I am very proud of my drawings and explanation! Check out my explanations for each character down below (my favourite was ‘the Kevin’s’):

This was my favourite part of the project!

Vaccine Media!

This is our last part of the project. You know how we see content on the internet and just believe? Well our goal was to make people aware of what information is real and false. We made campaigns to make people aware of what is  false information about vaccines. My partner, Brooklyn (link her blog post) and I,  made a campaign about how getting the covid vaccine has nothing to do with pregnancy problems. Check out our media campaign, we made three but this is my favourite campaign!

This part of the project showed me the power of words and the power of persuasion.

Conclusion 

This project was the longest and one of the most fun projects I have done!!!! Make sure to check out my other posts!!!

In this project we learned about the consequences of colonization. For this project we did a deep dive into how the indigenous were affected by colonization.

Craft
For this project we learned about an app called craft. What is craft? Craft was designed to share your documents and capture your notes to share with your team. For this project we mainly used it for taking notes. Here’s an example of my notes on colonial wars: https://ghosts-wink-qxs.craft.me/lOVenS3vkUnqDW. As you can see from my notes I love to use toggles. It makes everything more organized and easier to understand from my perspective. Craft will be one of my most used apps by the end of the year!!!

New France

New France was led by Samuel de Champlain. New France is what we now call Canada. Samuel de Champlain traveled to Canada with his men and when they arrived and colonized, they needed to get to work quickly because winter was coming fast. Samuel de Champlain and his men built a camp for them to live in. With the help of the indigenous, they survived the winter.  This is one of the first recorded acts of colonization. After New France’s first winter in Canada, many men were lost but Samuel de Champlain had to push onwards and think “What does New France need?” He realized they need women to encourage people to settle and grow the population.

Final project

Everybody learned the basics about the topics and with our selected group (my group included Brooklyn, Elsa and Evelyn) we picked two topics we all wanted to do a deep dive into. Our two topics were Gender Roles and Health. These both played massive roles in colonization. Gender Roles: As women in the 21st century we were curious to see the lives and roles that the different genders played hundreds of years ago. Health: We picked health because we wanted to learn more about the deadly disease, smallpox. Here’s all my notes about each topic:

https://docs.craft.do/d/2cc1b775-f74f-0481-bc0a-db4a93f49638/F0044CF4-59BF-4BEA-9C98-44A298AA0F48/b/26655C67-6CD3-47A4-9E4C-657B9DB15F3D/Eloises-research-?s=QTrHf4wUymdxpcSpU76HeZ9Ho8btwdfmadf7kRCfRMoj

Now that we had our to topic, we put it in a keynote that we had to present in front of grade 11s. This was really scary but we pushed through it. Here’s our keynote presentation:

Health and how the Indigenous were affected by it (my favourite topic)

There we are bunch of diseases that affected the indigenous people. Europeans didn’t even know they were carrying a deadly weapon small pox. Small pox was a deadly disease that a lot of Europeans were immune to but the indigenous had never come face to face with it.  This killed thousands of indigenous people. An example would be the Beothuk people who went extinct after colonization.

Gender roles of the Indigenous/ Europeans

Women’s rights in Europe were horrible. Everyone thought of them as lesser and men thought they were better than them in most ways. Now the women who travelled to New France had more rights.  They got to pick out their husbands but also had to do all the house work and give birth to a lot of babies, so New France could get a bigger population. For the men who came to New France, they were looking to restart their lives or were looking to be a big part of New France and luckily most men in New France got some opportunities.

Answer to driving question

After we presented to the Grade 11s,  Ms McWilliam asked the Grade 11s, what the end of the project should be. They suggested we use a keynote presentation to answer our driving question “what are the consequences of colonization?” Here’s my keynote and my answers:

Colonization
Colonization had a huge affect on the indigenous people and changed their lives. One of the biggest things that affected them was population decline.

Population
When the Europeans arrived, they introduced new weapons and guns that the indigenous had never seen before and the guns made warfare more deadly but, that’s not the only thing that played into population.

Health
This played a massive role because the indigenous people encountered new diseases that they were not immune to which was deadly.

Nature
The indigenous would only take what they needed for the land and treated it as equal, but when the Europeans arrived they saw it as an opportunity to take resources from the land and take advantage of its wealth.

Heritage
A lot of groups lost their heritage which created loss of identify and a forgotten language.

Reconciliation
We are now trying to rebuild our relationship with the Indigenous people and make up for how we treated them.

These are my biggest learnings from the project. Hope you enjoyed it. Make sure to check out another one of my blog posts.

“Thank you for coming to my presentation of learning. I am the expert on my own learning. I am also responsible and accountable for my own learning. You can expect me to give an honest evaluation of my progress. We will discuss my strengths and opportunities for growth. Thank you in advance for listening and for offering feedback that I can use to improve as a learner.”

What is Mpol?

In PLP we are presenting an Mpol to our teachers and parents about our work we have done half way through the school year! We present for seven minutes and show our parents what we have learned using a blog post! I will be sharing my favourite project, my most challenging project,  what I best learned from, my first science project, and DI.  So without any delay let’s get to it!!!

My Favourite Project!

My favourite project is Bon Voyage, this does not take away from my other projects I just felt very proud of my work. In this project we showed through an AR Makr video that we can learn to use story telling to investigate what sparked global exploration and understand its impact. In this project we made an  AR Makr video to show a part of the Europeans coming to America and colonizing. I made my video about the general greed Europeans had for power and resources. In this project I practiced my storytelling skills and drawing skills (to draw the characters in the AR Makr video), which is good because it’s something I really need to work on. Here is a few of my favourite drawings:

After all our blood, sweat and tears in this project we were finally done and to celebrate, we ordered pirate packs because we were learning about sea voyages. It was a delicious way to learn more about it. In this class we also did Kahoot and a pirate ship building contest!! This was the most enjoyable day in PLP this year so far (that i can remember).

My most challenging project.

My most challenging project this year was my Power play project and how it started. In this project we learned about medieval times through reading The book of the Lion and made medieval artwork. It showed a medieval worldview which made me understand we are lucky to live in a place where we get opportunity to learn. One of the reasons this project was a struggle was because I didn’t enjoy reading The Book Of The Lion. The book was a hard read, used old fashioned language and found it hard to relate to the characters. Despite all of this I did learn a lot about medieval times, check out my medieval artwork:

What I Best Learned From!

We made poems to express how I feel on paper and then put all of them into an ebook. But it was not that simple, we had to learn about different types of poems and how to interpret their meaning. One struggle to this project was learning all the types of poems but, once I overcame that I learned how to put true meaning into a poem. This is one of my favourite poems (which we also used as a team choice element in DI)

Climate Change.

Climate change is the terror of a nightmare, the devil on your shoulder. 

It is a tiger creeping up on its pray.

 It is a kettle boiling the ocean; an ice cube melting in your drink.

 It is the ocean spinning in a blender; the earth sizzling on a barbecue.

 We are children destroying our mother.

 We are the monster destroying the planet.

We also created an Ebook filled with poems. So make sure to check:

My First Science Project!

In this project I discovered that I can communicate my knowledge of atoms in a fun and creative way! This project helped me with my observational skills when we did experiments in lab. My favourite parts of this project was coding. I think it is a very important skill to know because it taught me patience and how to persevere since when making a game you have to have patience if the code doesn’t work. My video game is all about states of matter and facts on the atom. It is very hard to explain so here’s a quick clip of it:

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Here’s my link to my game: Link

Destination Imagination (DI)

DI is a global competition. There’s usually groups of 5 or 6 kids, competing in an age group where you complete a challenge that has a category. An example would be the engineering challenge. In this challenge you have to make a modular device that launches a bean bag and know how far the bean bag will go before it lands and build a story around the device (this is my challenge). If you want to learn more click the link here.

Destination Imagination was my most unusual project because it included a competition and two months preparation. I learned how to communicate to peers in an assertive way, which is a very important life skill. This because for 3 months straight you are meeting up, writing scripts, and agreeing on schedules. All of this demonstrates teamwork and communication skills. Aside from the skills that we learned it was also a bonus that we won regionals and placed second at provincials (getting first place on our instant challenge).

My learning plan!

I worked on my learning plan at the start of the year. It included what I’m good at, what I need growth in and what support I need from my peers. There’s two things in my learning plan that I think i have done well on and one thing i still need to grow on.

I think I could work on setting more realistic goals because sometimes I find myself finishing a project the night before the deadline.  To accomplish this I will use Things more often (Things is a self management app) and try to get things done early. I have improved at this skill but it needs a lot of work.

This year I think i most improved on self discipline. Before the year I would not remove distraction from my room such as tv or candy. Now before I do my homework I remove distraction from my room and turn my iPad on work mode.

Thank for coming to my first Mpol!!!

What’s one of your favourite foods? Well I know that a big contender is pizza and without the age of exploration there would be no pizza. In this project we showed through an AR Makr video that we can learn to use story telling to investigate what sparked global exploration and understand its impact.

Causes and consequences
For this project, we had to learn the cause and consequences about action and one of my favourite examples is failing a math test. A cause of failing a math test could be the teacher didn’t teach it well, you have no passion for it, or you didn’t get an enough sleep the night before the test! A consequence for this could be that your parents are disappointed, you fail your whole grade, or parents might take your iPad taken away. From this example we learn what a cause and consequence is and now it’s time to write our own about the age of exploration. Here’s an example of what I did on padlet:
Causes: https://padlet.com/eloiseg2/causes-of-exploration-9clxw49y30o52y9b

Consequences:https://padlet.com/eloiseg2/consequences-of-exploration-9g5mehaewsmqextt

Story mountain
If you have written a story before you know you can’t just write a story you have to brainstorm it. For our brainstorm we wrote a story mountain. My story mountain showed to me the power of storytelling, because if I just read in a text book about The Age Of Exploration I wouldn’t remember half of the information. But learning about the age of exploration through telling a story, made sure I got invested in the characters which helped me learn about the concepts of The Age Of Exploration. This is my story mountain;

Drawings
One of the main things that helped me engage in the story was the characters and how they looked so here are all of the drawings I made for the AR Makr video:

Video + story
For my story I received a lot of feedback back. I changed a lot of detail in my story. After the improvements, it was as good as it was going to be. After, I created my video which I’m very proud of. Check it out:

I think my video shows my understanding of Europeans worldview because I had one character who was very cocky and loved thinking they were taking advantage of the first people and another who just loved being there to understand more about the people and culture he was meeting.

Best PLP Class!!!
After all our blood, sweat and tears we were finally done the project and to celebrate, we ordered pirate packs because we were learning about sea voyages. It was a delicious way to learn more about it. In this class we also did Kahoot and a pirate ship building contest!! This was the most enjoyable day in PLP this year so far.

Make sure to check out some of my other blog posts!!!!

Have you ever done destination Imagination? What’s it like? I have done destination imagination and I’m going to answer all those questions!

What is DI?
DI is a global competition. There’s usually groups of 5 or 6 kids, competing in an age group where you complete a challenge that has a category. An example would be the engineering challenge. In this challenge you have to make a modular device that launches a bean bag and know how far the bean bag will go before it lands and build a story around the device (this is my challenge). If you want to learn more click the link here

Journey
You have 6 months to make your presentation, but since we are in PLP, we only had two months. This project felt like a race against time, so we had to get started right away. The first thing we did was get a topic for the story. We chose climate change and built a modular device that complies to the story, this process took about a month. Then we realized we only had 1 month left until DI regionals, with so much left to do!!! So in the next three weeks we made costumes. My favourite costume was our robot costume . We also had to make props and backgrounds which was really hard. It took us 8 hours to complete just the backgrounds and an additional two hours for the props. Then everything led up to the last week and my whole group was stressed out since we had to memorize so many lines. In the end we had a good dress rehearsal!! By the way I did not do this project alone, make sure to check out my groups blogs!!!!

Siena

Cole

Isaac

Sven

Sawyer

Day of
We all got there at 8:30am on the dot and got straight in to rehearsal. For our presentation we had an early slot, even though we would prefer to compete later in the day, since we wanted to check out our competition. The group before startled us because their props were gigantic. As I said to my team “bigger is not always better” trying to rebuild my teams confidence. Then suddenly it was our turn and my heart was beating out of my chest. I won’t reveal the content of ourpresentation until after May. Remember, we will be performing at Provincials. After what felt like an hour (8 minutes) we were done and I felt a wave of relief. You might think this is the end of the day but we still had an instant challenge and the awards ceremony to go. We all know the rules that we are not allowed to share anything about the instant challenge, but what I can tell you is that I was really nervous (CLICK HERE FOR AN EXAMPLE). Finally the awards ceremony and my whole team was really nervous. It didn’t help that we were the last category to be announced. Third place was announced and it wasn’t us. Second place was announced and it still wasn’t us (we were all panicking because we would either be last or first). Finally they announced the winner and it was us, The Bean Baggers!!!!!!! Ms Kadi ran up to us and gave us a hug. We were all so happy, all of our hard work had paid off.

Things sent to test us!!!

The first thing was that this project was a race against time. Usually teams get 6 months to prepare but we only got 2, which was a big disadvantage. We overcame that by meeting up after school so we could get more done in a day. The second thing was that one of our group members couldn’t come to the competition and told us a week before. Luckily we rewrote parts of the script to make it work.

Being the main character

In the performance I was the main character. Given I was the main character, I had the most lines. I felt a weight on my shoulders as I was memorizing my lines and the thought of making a mistake made my nerves shoot through the roof. Somehow, despite all my nerves, I didn’t forget a single line and I felt proud (and relieved).

Make sure to come support the bean baggers for Provincials!!!!

Have you ever done PLP science? Well I just completed my first ever science project and here’s how it went. In this project I discovered that I can communicate my knowledge of atoms in a fun and creative way!

Observations 

Before we actually make the game we had to do some learning. We did labs,  this is where you would get assigned a partner and get a task and a sheet to fill out along your experiments. An example would be one of our first labs called ‘The Black Box’, in this case called the Black jar since we used a mini container instead of the box. For this task we would get a mini black jar that you can’t see inside, and there is random stuff inside of it. Then using your six senses you would try to guess from the sound of it, when you shake it and the weight of it, what is inside. This lab taught me how to be aware of my senses and make careful and smart observations.

Game

To show our knowledge of atoms we made a video game. This video game had to show our knowledge of atoms in a creative way. So my idea was to make a character that defeated an atom. Sadly though since scratch is such a buggy app my game deleted half way through making it. So instead I made a game called matter dash. It’s where you would jump over matter while learning about facts. This game taught me patience and how to express my thoughts in a new and creative way!

Click this to try my game!

But don’t worry, if you couldn’t complete it here’s a video of me completing it:,

My favourite part of this project

I had two favourite parts of this project! My first one was the labs. I learnt that I can have fun and learn valuable knowledge at the same time. Doing the lab was fun because you weren’t just sitting around in a normal class all day you were doing a task and felt more motivated to do it.
My second favourite part of the project was trying out everyone’s games since after all the hard work and coding of the project we could finally celebrate what we did and have fun while seeing everyone else’s game (my favourite game was Cece’s).

Reflection

This project was really fun and enjoyable. I learned a lot about the atom and how to make observational skills. If i could do two things better in this project I would’ve looked at more tutorials for scratch and be more precise with my observations. This project has been blast and make sure to check out some of my other posts.