“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:
This is my favourite drawing!
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:
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!!!
. 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!!!!
presentation 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 (
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.
Lines and Pressure
and it was fun to make stickers about my life, to put on the laptop. When I was presenting my ‘me emoji’ I did a number of sound effects and animations.
project I spent time learning all the transitions and applied these skills to my slides. I hope to build on all these and improve them as I go on through my PLP journey.