What’s up guys welcome to another post. Today I have an amazing experience to share with you guys! Recently it was take your kid to work day (which I’ll explain in a minute) I had so much fun at my mom’s work and I can’t wait to share it with you!
Every year across the Canada every grade 9 student has the opportunity to go to their parents or friends parents work. This year I am in Gr.9 so I had the opportunity to go. As I mentioned I went to my moms work because I didn’t want to sit around all day in an office cubicle like my dad. I decided that I would much rather go to see my moms school.
Yes that’s right my moms a teacher. So while some of my friends went to places like Amazon, I was still going to school.
Believe it or not I learned a lot about being a teacher as well as see the other side of a school.
I got to see many things that happen at a school that kids aren’t aware of. But one thing that stood out to me was how much a teacher has to work. Teachers have a tons to do. Not only do they have to plan lessons and what to teach but they also have meetings and marking. According to the Gr.7 teachers the marking takes forever and that’s just elementary school marking. I can’t imagine high school teachers having to mark not one but three to five classes worth of marking.
On top of all of the things that regular teachers have to do all the teachers at my moms school are moving back to their regular one.
For the last year and a bit Kingsford Smith the school my mom teaches at has been closed for earthquake renovations. The VSB decided to put half the school at Champlain heights and the other half at MacCorkindale. My mom got put at MacCorkindale so that’s where we went.
Normally when a company or a business they hire a company to pack up everything and move it all in a day. But unfortunately for the teachers they had to pack up everything that they wanted to take with them AND they still had to teach regular classes.
Being PLP we had a video assignment to do. Our task was to film a video that had an interview, a story and a focus. Below you will find my video. Enjoy!
Hi guys I’m back with another sbc post. This week, which is week 6 our task was to research a top that we are interested about and feature it in this post.
I have always wondered a lot about outer space and the things that are out there. But one thing that has had me truly fascinated are black holes. Now most of you readers probably know what a black hole is. You’ve probably see one in a movie or TV show.
For those of you who don’t know what a black hole is it is a…
In case your still confused a black hole “eats” everything thing around it including light thus being called a black hole. With just a normal telescope you are unable to see a black hole because they absorb all the light around them. The reason scientists know about black holes is because of its gravitational pull. Using special tools scientist are able to find them by measuring the gravitational pull around space. Now I have a video about black holes to share with you people. Here it is.
I chose to show you this video because first crash course videos are amazingly helpful when it comes to understanding things. Also this video really covers the basics when it comes to black holes as well all the facts they gave are accurate.
Now I have a quiz for you guys. It’s called two truths and a lie. You’ve probably all played this before but anyway the rules are simple, below are 3 statements only 2 are facts the other is completely made up. All the info you need to solve these statements are in this post or in the video. Have fun and don’t forget to comment your answers below. Enjoy!
1. When you get really close to a black hole time slows down
2. If you get within a few dozen km of a stellar mass black hole you experience spaghettification
3. Scientists say our sun will become a black hole in the future
Don’t forget to comment your guesses below. Thanks for reading
Welcome to a new post my readers. Today post is featuring 2 subjects; scimatics and humanities! In this project we learned about steampunk, the Industrial Revolution, metaphors, Revolutions, circuits, and scale diagrams. For this post I have divided it into three sections. The humanities side, the scimatics side and the actual video it’s self. Now let get it going with the humanities side!
Humanities
In this unit I learned a lot about steampunk and the Industrial Revolution. If you haven’t read my Steampunk post which defines steampunk and what it is you can check it out here. We started out this unit by learning about a man named Crane Brinton.
Brinton was an American historian who is best known for his book The Anatomy of a Revolution. Brintons theory was a guildline that almost all revolutions follow. In his theory he compares a revolution to a virus. His says that there are four stages to a revolution. I also compared his stages of a revolution to a story spine there is a exposition or incubation stage, next is the rising action or moderate stage, third is the climax or crisis stage, and finally is the conclusion or recovery stage.
After that we moved on to picking our revolutions. There were five different revolutions to pick from the options were: Russian, French, American, Chinese, and Haitian. I got put into the Chinese one with Jason, Kiera, and Sam. For some reason Ms. Maxwell our teacher decided to put all the asians into a group doing an Asia revolution.
The requirements for this project were: there had to be at least 6 different metaphors, we had to fit all onto a 120 by 60 Cm board, and we had to incorporate a circuit.
The first thing we did about our revolutions was find out more about them. We had to make a timeline with all of our important events that happend in our revolution.
We then moved on to creating our metaphors. Because so much happens in a revolution and we can’t make every event into a metaphor we decided to pick the 6 most important events that happend in our revolution and turn them into metaphors. My group and I decided on these six events to be represented in our machine.
After we decided our metaphors we moved onto drawing. At this point I would like to remind you that this post is a multi subject one meaning we worked on this project in multiple subjects and got a grade for each one. At this moment I am going to switch to the scimatics side of things and come back to the humanities section in a bit. Thanks and hope you continue to enjoy this post.
Scimatics
While we were learning about history in humanities, in scimatics we were working on scale diagrams. For this we used a website called khan academy which you can find right here. I highly recommend it for anyone struggling in math because if you don’t understand the lesson there are videos that explain how to do it. Also its free!
Our work on scale diagrams was very interesting. Once I got the hang of it, it was quite easy to do. Anyways our first diagram blueprint that we drew was pretty good.
Once we had that done we began to learn about circuits. In this unit I learn a lot about electricity and how current flows. As well has how to get more power from the same amount of battery’s. We did quite a few worksheets and experiments that helped me understand and then further extend my knowledge about electricity.
As I said earlier we had to incorporate and make a circuit into one of our metaphors. Me and Sam were in charge of designing and making our circuit. We decided to make a parallel circuit an run a copper wire across the track so when the golf ball rolled through it would switch our circuit off.
The switch circled in black was a wire that ran across the track
Me and Sam not only had to design our circuit but we actually had to make it. Working as a team we had to sauter the wires and LEDs together so that they wouldn’t fall apart.
Now back to humanities
While me and Sam were hard at work making the circuit, Jason and Kiera were busy working on the machine its self. They had to spray paint and glue gun the tracks to the board. Everything was going along very well until we ran into a problem. Our original plan for the scale did not work so we ended up remodelling the scale so that it was easier to make.
It took us about 1 and a half weeks to make and build our machine. Then we spent another 2-3 days repeatedly making test runs to make sure that it worked. After we did our full run through we start making our video.
The video that we ended up with was very good. My group and I decided that me and Sam did a lot of the building of the machine so Jason and Kiera did most of the work editing the video. For science we also had to make a final blueprint and circuit diagram which you can find below.
Now with out further ado here is our final machine video hope you enjoy.
Conclusion
Refleting back on this unit there were many things that I learned. From the revolutions to circuits to even how to build and improvise if something doesn’t work. I really though I increased my knowledge on many things including how a revolution happens, what happend in The Industrial Revolution and how circuits and electricity work as well. I really enjoyed this unit and I can wait to write about the next. Until next time 👋
What’s up everyone! Welcome back to another blog challenge post. For this week I chose to get to know you the readers better. I have made a google form with questions for you to answer and I hope you enjoy.
Hello everyone and welcome to another amazing post. In this post I have an amazing event that I would have to share with y’all. Recently in Maker we had the task of filming a live event.
This event could be anything. If you had nothing to film you could even make something up. The only requirements were; it had to have an interview with a participant (it had to be someone outside of PLP), a time lapse or slow motion, a photo with the ken burns effect and copyright free music.
For this video I decided to film my cousin Sabrina’s field hockey game vs UBC. The game was not only fun to watch was the last game of the regular season for both teams. Also it was Sabrina’s last game as a university student as she is graduating the year.
Anyways here is my live event hope you enjoy!
From this experience I have learned a couple things. First is the sports broadcasters and filmers have a lot harder job then you think. Second is a lot of work goes into the filming of events as most big events only happen once and if you miss it then that’s it. Lastly I learned that you should always have a back up plan as my original plan to interview my cousin failed.
emojis… emojis are great. Emojis are used for many things that words can’t describe and within the last 5 years have exploded in popularity. For this post I will be making a story out of only emojis that will be given to me at random.
Here are the emojis I used I hope you enjoy
Once upon a time there was a cat. The cat’s name was Nik. Nik loved to ride trains. His happy place was curled up on the seat of a train. But one day he got put onto an airplane. Nik was very sad. He just sat there crying. Suddenly a monkey came walking down the isle. The monkey’s name was Sam. Sam did his best to confort Nik and very quickly they became good friends. As the plane landed Nik got very scared. For as they were getting off the plane he heard a roar. Sam being very observant notice that Nik had gone as silent as if he had no mouth. “Nik he said what’s a matter?” “There.. there’s .. THERE’S A DRAGON COMING!” Nik manger to stutter out. Just as the dragon was about to step on them a leopard on a bicycle managed to grab both of them out of the way. Nik and Sam both went tumbleing across the hard pavement. As they got up they realized that the mysterious leopard biker had disappeared. Confused and tired they stumbled into town to find a place to sleep. When Sam finally spotted a hotel from across the street they ran into a problem. The problem was that the sidewalk on both sides were covered in no crossing signs. There were so many that it was pretty much a wall of signs blocking their path across. All of a sudden as if coming right out of the wall its self a giant panda bear appeared. “What’s up?” The bear asked “My name’s Jason, what’s yours?’ Surprised Nik and Sam backed up very quickly, so quickly that Nik accidentally bumped his head into a wall. It hurt so bad that Nik started crying. Suddenly the biker showed up as if appearing from thin air. Sam and Jason watched in awe as the leopard took off its helmet and put it on Nik’s head. When she took it off the bruise was gone and Nik was smileing. That smile soon faded when he realized who the biker was. “Hi Nik, its been a while” the biker said. “Nik you know this women?” Sam inquired. “Yes, guys meet Sage, Sage meet Jason and Sam.” Nik replied. “How do you two know each other?” Jason asked. “We met in high school and she’s the one who got me into riding trains.” Nik answered. The group started walking down the street the wall forgotten until suddenly an alien appeared out of knowhere. “Hello” it said “I have come to….
THE END!
Please leave a comment with you version of the ending and thanks for reading.
Hello everyone and welcome. This post is about images and how to use the right ones. We all know there are billions of images on the internet but unfortunately you can’t use 99% of them. The reason is because they are copyrighted and you have to get writen consent by the image maker to use that photo. Fortunately for you there are ways to get your own. The first is to either take or make your own this is the easiest, the second is to use non copywrited images. To find them I recommend going to Creative Commons and looking there. The last way is to go through the painful process of tracking down the person who made the image and getting written consent but I recommend not doing that.
That’s it for this post I hope you learned something 👋
Hey everyone and welcome back to a very interesting post. As you can probably tell from the title this post is on the topic of Steampunk. In this post I will not only defining the definition of the word steampunk but also answering a question that I came up with which is “ What makes Steampunk such a popular aesthetic?” Or “Why is steampunk so popular?”
Now the definition for the word steampunk is a bit weird but I’ll try my best to explain it. The proper definition is “ A genre of science fiction that has a historical setting and typically features steam-powered machinery rather than advanced technology.” Now if your still struggleing to grasp the concept of steampunk I define it as, if the industrial revolution had happened in the Victorian Era when everything was powered by steam.
Now onto my question. Once again my question is “ What makes Steampunk such a popular aesthetic?”
If you haven’t even heard of steampunk before don’t worry I hadn’t either but I shocked to discover how popular it is. At the Lincolnshire festival which is the biggest annul Steampunk gathering, over 100,000 people attended this year.
There are many things that make this genre so popular to many different people from the colours to the visual looks of gears, clocks, cogs etc. to the fact that you can make a ton of cool things that don’t exist today. It all depends on what you are interested in and if the steampunk aesthetic fits matches them. So as the answer to my question is there is no one ‘right’ answer. It’s all about opinion some people will love it and some will hate it. It all depends on what you like and your opinion.
Thanks for reading, I’ll see you in the conclusion, Bye y’all
Hello peoples of the Earth I am back with another post. The post is a lot different then the rest of them though. Every year each grade of PLP goes on a field study to somewhere that enhances their learning about a certain topic. Last year we went on a field trip to Oregon to understand the meaning of worldview. This year we went to Alberta to learn and deepen our understanding on identity! Now I’ve already explained the project side of the trip which you can find here. In this post I have for you all the important places that we went to and how the impacted our learning about identity.
Places
We went to many cool and interesting places on our trip. Sadly I cannot show you everything because that would make the post to long and probably would bore you to death. So I have chosen to feature the most important places that we went to.
Craigellachie
The first stop that we made was Craigellachie B.C. The reason we stopped here was because it is the place where the last spike was driven in for the C.P.R. The C.P.R. Or Canadian Pacific railway is one of the biggest things that impacted Canada’s identity. The reason for this is because without the railroad there is a chance that B.C. could of become part of the USA and Canada wouldn’t have gone coast to coast. It was very cool to see the spot where the last spike was hammered in.
Rogers Pass
If you don’t know your western Canadian history then you’ve probably never heard of Rogers Pass. I didn’t until this trip. Rogers Pass played a crucial roll in the the CPR. It was important because it was the easiest was through the Selkirk mountain range and a way for the CPR to continue its journey. While we were there I learned a lot about the history of the CPR. One of the things I learned about was the war on snow. Just like most mountain ranges Rogers Pass has huge amounts of snowfall during the winter. From the very first winter, Rogers Pass had its troubles. The heavy snowfall in the winter piled up on the mountains that overlooked the pass. Eventually avalanches would happen and back then they would wreck sections of the track as well as trains. First the government of Canada built miles of snowsheds to stop the snow from reaching the track. Although this melted was somewhat useful workers still had to clear away the snow from the sheds to prevent pile up. In 1916 the 8km long Connaught tunnel finished construction underneath Rogers Pass. This sheltered the trains from snow. In 1988 the CPR finished construction on an even bigger Mount McDonald tunnel which was 14.7km long to increase capacity.
Today Rogers Pass is home to the Trans-Canada Highway and is home to the largest mobile avalanche control program in the world.
Buffalo Ranch
One of the more interesting places we went on this trip was a Buffalo Ranch. The Ranch is owned by a very great and unique person Leo. The ranch is really cool and unique. While we were there I learned a lot about wild life, especially buffalo.
Calgary
Our most eastern stop on this trip was Calgary we were there for 3 days and had a BLAST! Two places that were really cool were the zoo and Beakerhead. At the zoo we got to see many different animals including pandas. It was amazing!
The other more important stop in Calgary was Beakerhead. Beakerhead is a annual event that brings together the arts, science, and engineering extorts to build, engage, compete, and exhibit interactive works of art, engineered creativity and entertainment. It was a very cool event and an amazing experience!
Food!
Now we move onto food. I had many delicious tasting things on this trip. One of my favourites was the Young Elvis milkshake. The milkshake was peanut butter and banana flavoured and it was delicious. Some of the amazing restaurants that we ate at were Big T’s, Red lobster for endless shrimp, and Blaze Pizza. They were all delicious and I recommend any of them.
Work
Now is the part where I remind you that even though this sounds like a lot of fun (and it was) this was still and educational field study meaning we had work to do. Now we already had our Alberta video but we also had some surprise videos that we had to film on the fly.
The first is the ghost town video. On the first day we had to film a video in a historic ghost town. Here is our video:
The second and last video we had to do was at an enchanted forest, here is ours:
Ending
I never really know how to end post… I had a great time in Alberta and I got to get even closer to my friends in PLP I am so glad I had to opportunity to go and went. That all for this post thanks for reading.
Hello everyone and welcome back to another post. This one is a follow up to the last post which you can check out here.
If you’ve been reading my post for a while you might recall last years post about the field study from when we went to Oregon. The topic for that unit was worldview. Believe it or not worldview and identity are connected. We learned that worldview is your view of the worldview and identity is how the world sees you. We also learned a lot before the trip. We learned about the First Nations territory’s that are in now modern day British Columbia and Alberta. As well as the impact the Europeans had on the First Nations.
We also learned about the CPR. We learned why it was built and the impact it had on creating Canada as we know it today.
Keeping all that in mind, we started our field study. We also had to answer the driving question. How does the land impact our identity? We went to a variety of different places to help us answer the question. Some of the places we went to were Craigellachie, Columbiaicefield, Beakerhead, Banff, Lake Louise, Drumheller and so many more. We even went to a bison ranch!
One good example of our driving question is Drumheller. Drumheller is a small town that wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for dinosaurs . The discovery of fossils allowed a ton of businesses to open such as the royal tyrell museum. The opening of these businesses created more jobs thus creating a town and attracting people from around the world to come.
Our project for this unit was to make a 5 minute video that answered the driving question. Below is my video explaining my answer to the driving question as well as featuring some places that I haven’t mention in this post.
In conclusion I learned a lot about identity. As for the answer to our driving question, my answer is the land impacts your identity in many different ways. From how you live to the activities you take part in. But you identity is not only what impacts you
