on Welcome! It’s mPOL time of year again. In this post I will be writing about my growth as a learner so far this year. I will then be presenting this post to my parents and a teacher in what we in PLP call an mPOL – Midyear Presentation of Learning – while I talk about… Continue Reading 🎙️mPOL 2023
on We just finished a project on past wrongs in Canadian history. I focused on the Komagata Maru incident for this project. Our driving question was: How can we keep apologies for past wrongs alive so they are remembered and not repeated today? There are many ways that we can remember past wrongs, one of them… Continue Reading 🚢 The Komagata Maru & PLP Winter Exhibition 2022
on Welcome! PLP 10 returned to Loon Lake (a beautiful retreat centre in Maple Ridge) this year for a 3 day leadership course. I learned a lot and had a lot of fun, which I’ll be reflecting on in this post. Keep reading for a slideshow at the end with a bunch of photography I did… Continue Reading 🧗🏻 Loon Lake Leadership Retreat
on Welcome and if you’ve visited this blog before, welcome back! My summer break consisted of camping, French 10 online, Lifeguarding and Swim Instructing. Here are some of the photos I took during my family’s camping trip to Miracle Beach on Vancouver Island (featuring our adorable pup, Maruka): Photos © Fraser.Artist. All Rights Reserved. Visit fraserartist.wixsite.com/home… Continue Reading ⛏ Gold! | How did the Gold Rushes Shape BC?
on Why do you feel you are ready to advance to the next grade level? tPOL Declaration “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… Continue Reading 💭 tPOL 2022
on In this project titled “Time Is Money” we used equations and linear relations to predict the time and profit of a product or service we created. How can we predict our finances for the future? My video does an excellent job at answering this driving question but to give a short answer: we can predict… Continue Reading 💵 Website Design Service | Time is Money & Linear Relations
on We just completed our PLP Spring Exhibition “IMPACT!” PLP Exhibitions showcases the learning PLP learners have done. We were split into teams, each responsible for a room. I was assigned to “Beyond The Classroom.” We also got to work with the Grade 8’s to create our room. Our room’s driving question was: How do we… Continue Reading 🏛 PLP Spring Exhibition 2022
on If a tree falls in a city and nobody hears it, did it actually make a sound? Follow former city planner Alex Jamieson (with interviews from his granddaughter, Kaia and his partner in crime, Michelle Sheardown) as he describes his continuing battle to convince developers to work around trees, instead of cutting them down, to… Continue Reading 🎥 Who Speaks For The Trees? | A Documentary by Fraser Wagner
on In this project we learned a bunch about movies, from history to practical skills. I’ll start with the first skill then work my way down past some banana madness, all the way to the grand finale involving a wizard, a penguin and an iPad… Movie history We also learned some movie history. I won’t go… Continue Reading 🍌 From Bananas to Wizards | Vibrant Video
on In this project we created graphic novels about an aspect of WWI. I choose to learn and create a graphic novel about Francis “Peggy” Pegahmagabow, the most deadly sniper and highest decorated Indigenous Person from Canada in WWI. Here’s my graphic novel (pease select a file type below): Please choose a file type to open… Continue Reading 💥 The Story of Francis “Peggy” Pegahmagabow | WWI