on It’s Destination Imagination (DI) reflection time of year again! DI is a worldwide non-profit organization whose purpose is to inspire and equip students to become the next generation of innovators and leaders. Students work in teams to solve open-ended challenges that foster their creativity, courage and curiosity. In working to solve our DI challenges, teams… Continue Reading 🥉Destination Imagination 2022: Provincials
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 PLP 8 and 9 got the opportunity to go on our first-ever overnight, multi-day Learning Advance (because we never retreat) at Loon Lake Lodge and Retreat Advance Centre in Maple Ridge. We had a ton of fun, strengthened our teamwork and learned a lot! While on this Advance we created a book filled with photos, videos,… Continue Reading 🌊 Loon Lake Learning Advance
on Welcome! 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 Ms. Maxwell in what we in PLP call an mPOL – Midyear Presentation of Learning – while I talk about my growth as a leaner and… Continue Reading 💎 mPOL • Jan 2022
on I think my animations above do an excellent job at answering the driving question for this project “How do the electron arrangements of atoms determine the chemical and physical properties of elements and compounds?” So make sure to watch them! As with most Scimatics projects, we started off this project with a Mindmap: Now… Continue Reading 🎞 Atoms, Atoms Everywhere • Atomic Bonding
on In this project we created an eBook filled with poetry about our worldview, along with complementary texts and audio meaning statements. Worldview Is Master Of All – Worldview Poetry Click to read this book of my worldview poetry. www.read.bookcreator.com In PLP 8 last year, we completed a project in which we also learned about worldview,… Continue Reading 👁 Worldview Is Master of All
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