on “Your Honour, the prosecution submits that the Haitian revolution was ineffective.” For this project we put the effectiveness of the Haitian Revolution on trial for the PLP Winter Exhibition. How Might We As Legal Teams Determine the Effectiveness of a Revolution? I think that the video of our trial does an excellent job at… Continue Reading 👩⚖️ The Haitian Revolution’s Effectiveness Court Trial
on For this Scimatics 9 project, I worked with Makenna to create a Keynote presentation to explain the findings of our survey on screen time, family time and age as well as what correlation and causation is and the differences between them. ⚠️ It should be noted that in our Keynote video we said that the strength… Continue Reading 📉 How Do Screens Affect Your Personal Life? – Correlation Vs. Causation
on As part of Careers 9, I got to spend the morning with my family friend’s dad, Robin Ashmore (CEO), at his company, All Purpose, in Vancouver. As you know from the video above, the assignment for this outing was to create a short video about our experience in the workplace. A few highlights from my experience… Continue Reading ＊Workplace Adventures At All Purpose
on Hello and welcome! For this Humanities 9 project, we wrote a letter about an environmental issue to promote change to people who can make those changes (like a premier or minister). I wrote to Katrine Conroy, the Minister of Forests, Natural Lands and Resources to demand an immediate protection of old growth forests, specifically the… Continue Reading ✉️ An Epistle for the Environment
on Welcome back! 🍂Autumn is here and so is my first project reflection post for Grade 9 Scimatics. For the first project of Scimatics this year, we worked as a team to create a card/board game that used at least 4 exponent laws. I was overjoyed to be able to choose our teams for this project… Continue Reading 🐛 Centipede Hill | Exponent Laws Game
on In this project we made comic books about how cells and diseases interact. We kicked off this project by watching the movie Osmosis Jones. I found the animated parts of the movie very entertaining, but the parts with real people were very disgusting for the most part. How do cells and diseases interact? Cells… Continue Reading 🦠 Tuberculosis Invasion
on In this project we designed 3D objects that had components maximized for surface area or volume. Our driving questions varied depending on the 3D shape we chose. We (my teammates Teva and Alicia) made this YouTube Video so that you can watch the presentation: My driving question originally was “How can I design a satellite… Continue Reading 🛰 Intergalactic Space Set – 3D Design and Math
on In this Scimatics project we worked individually to code a game or simulation about matter, including the Kinetic Molecular Theory and Atomic Theory, using the coding platform Scratch. You can play my game right now! (If it doesn’t load click here.) How can the behaviour of matter be explained by the kinetic molecular theory… Continue Reading ⚛️ Marvellous Matter Trivia
on In this project we worked with a partner to create an infographic about how European settlement affected all of the people involved, which included the French, British and First Nations. First things first: Thanks to my partner for this project, Julia, for being such an awesome, reliable and hard working partner! I really enjoyed working with… Continue Reading 🦫 The More Things Change… The More Infographics We Get To Make
on Hello! In this post, I will be writing about Destination Imagination, or DI for short. DI is a global competition for creativity, teamwork and innovation. Under normal circumstances, DI would be a big, live tournament with many teams and live performances. This year the solutions for all aspects of DI had to be presented as… Continue Reading 🥇Destination Imagination 2021: Nationals