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 New Assignment! Create a Rube Goldberg Machine that is a metaphor for the scientific process. That sounds pretty confusing (I was definitely confused), but don’t worry it’s not quite as complicated as it sounds, watch the video below to see our Rube Goldberg Machine in action and learn the 6 steps of the scientific process: This project… Continue Reading ⚙️ Rube Goldberg Machines that are Metaphors?!
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 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 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 🚀 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
on 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
on 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
on 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