Hey guys, for the last six weeks we’ve been learning about revolutions across history to see if we could answer the driving question of this project: How do ideas drive change? To help us answer this question we got to create four different videos based on different revolutions. These videos were then assessed on three […]
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All You Can Do Is Run…
You see that video at the top of the post, pretty good right? Looks almost professional, so how could a group of grade 9 students with iPads make it looks so good? The answer is that we can’t but that was what we were trying to do with our first major project for maker. If […]
Place Is Us
Hey everyone, its been awhile but I’m finally back and posting again. It’s a new year which means new projects to stress about and today I’m going to be talking about one such project. As you can see there’s a video at the top of this post, that is the final product of this project […]
A House of Cards
Hey guys, for the last month or so PLP 9 has been working on a project for Scimatics, or more specifically, math. For this project we were tasked with creating a game that used exponent laws in some way. We also had to use the curricular competencies to make this project easier on us we […]
Blue Sky!
Hey guys, for the last couple of months my class has been working on two different projects: The Tempest project and Blue Sky which is what I’m going to be talking about today. To complete our Blue Sky project we had to follow the LAUNCH cycle which is basically a cycle that you follow while […]
Colonizing in a Tempest
Hey guys, for the last couple of months we have been working on a project called Colonizing in a Tempest. The purpose of this project was to teach us about the colonization of New France or, as we now call it, Canada. However since this is PLP we never just learn about something, we make […]
Time To Learn About PGP!
Hi guys, you may not know this but for the last year my class has been taking part in a course called Personal Growth Plan, or PGP. For those of you who don’t know what that means, it’s basically a course that’s teaches you different strategies to succeed at school. Since we’re almost at the […]
DI is the best and worst thing we have done all year…
Hey guys, for this last term we have been working on something called Destination Imagination. Destination Imagination or DI is a competition that is based around different skills that will help all those who participate succeed later in life. There are 6 challenges you can enter in if you are over the age of 7, […]
mPOL’s
Hey guys, one of the main things we have to do in PLP is mPOL’s or, if you like to be fancy, mid-year presentation of learning. Now you’re probably wondering ‘what the heck is a mPOL?’ Well I’m here to answer that question that you may or may not have asked yourself. You already know […]
All of Worldview
Hey guys, first post of 2019 pretty exciting right, anyway lets jump right into it. For the last few months our class has been working on one specific project, the world views of world religions. Now this may seem like a pretty long time for a project to go on for but you would be […]