Hello and welcome back to the Student Blogging Challenge 2021! In this post I will be writing about a celebration that my family enjoys every year… Pancake Tuesday. Pancake Tuesday is celebrated 47 days before Easter Sunday. Traditionally Pancake Tuesday was a Christian celebration. It was a day to feast and eat up all… Continue Reading 🥞Pancake Tuesday
Category: 💻 PLP Grade 8
All posts from PLP 8 projects. 2020-2021.
🏙/🌃 How it started/How it’s going
Hello! In this post I am going to be writing about our most recent project, titled “How It Started / How It’s Going” after the popular meme: Source Our end product was a virtual museum containing our how it started/how it’s going meme which contained art from the medieval or Renaissance eras. I hope you… Continue Reading 🏙/🌃 How it started/How it’s going
🐸 Emoji Story
In this post of the Student Blogging Challenge, we got to use a random emoji generator. We then got to take the emojis and make a story. Since we have been learning about the Story Mountain and the Story Spine, I decide to try and apply it to this emoji story. Here are the emojis the… Continue Reading 🐸 Emoji Story
🎼 Music Time
Welcome! In this post of the Student Blogging Challenge, I am going to teach you about the instruments I play, give you some music I’ve made, and learn what you enjoy from a survey! I play four different percussion instruments: vibraphone, marimba, bells and xylophone (and hopefully soon the chimes). 1. Vibraphone The Vibraphone is a… Continue Reading 🎼 Music Time
🔥Camping Under The Stars
For this post of the Student Blogging Challenge, we got to learn about what media we can use without copyright infringement. For this post we were instructed to create or find a photo and write a post about it. Our current project is about worldview, so I decided to incorporate it into this post. Worldview (noun):… Continue Reading 🔥Camping Under The Stars
📐 A Laser Arrow Named Timothy
🚀 Launch Laser Tag: we did a fun “entry event” in which we were divided into two teams. We each had one target (a plastic beaker), a shield (a test divider), a mirror and a laser. We started by trying to strategically placing our shield and target so that the other team couldn’t hit it with… Continue Reading 📐 A Laser Arrow Named Timothy
🌎 Disaster Island – Tectonic Board Game
The goal of this project was to creat a game that included at least ten tectonic concepts and some type of probability. For this project I was in a group with Clare and Ben. I enjoyed getting to work with them and get know them better over the course of this project. We started by… Continue Reading 🌎 Disaster Island – Tectonic Board Game
🕙 Fractions of Your Time
Our first Scimatics project! This project was about how much (what fraction of) our time we spend on screens. Before reading this post, please visit my previous post on this project. The rest of this project was just worksheets and a few quizzes. Every day we added our amounts of time for each activity to our… Continue Reading 🕙 Fractions of Your Time
🕑 Fractions of Your Time – Mid-project reflection & process
Scimatics time! This project is about what fraction of our time we spend on screens. The first thing we did in this project was to try and make a tower that could hold a paper clip on top out of one sheet of paper and ten centimetres of tape. It had to be at least… Continue Reading 🕑 Fractions of Your Time – Mid-project reflection & process
🖥 The Medium is the Message – A Deep Cove Advertisement Journey
In this post I will be reflecting on our final ad, and telling you about rest of this project since my mid-project reflection post. This post will make the most sense if you read the previous post first. Please click here to read it. I will also answer our driving question. Okay, starting where we… Continue Reading 🖥 The Medium is the Message – A Deep Cove Advertisement Journey