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 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 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
on In this project we learned a lot about how to be our most effective selves by reading the book “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens” by Sean Covey and creating “choice board assessments” to show our understanding of each section in the book. Keep reading for all of my choice boards and accompanying explanations… Continue Reading 7️⃣ Habits of Highly Effective Teens
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 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 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