As grade 9 maker ends, we finished the year with a project based around a problem in the world. We each had to find a problem that was important and interesting using the launch cycle and design 3 different prototypes to solve the problem.  To guide our inquiry we used the lunch cycle to help us organize our ideas to benefit our creative process.   Look, Listen and Learn: Everyone…

Once our class was well-educated in the lives of the Canadian soldiers of world war one and all of the treacherous events that took place, we returned to our main focus from the beginning of the year, Canada’s history. The first focus of the course was, “who are the Metis”? This group of people began with the French Canadian fur traders, in the mid-1700’s when the number of fur resources where declining,…

For the last math unit of the year, we completed a group project based on causation and correlation. Driving Question: How are correlation and causation different? I worked with Luca and Adlih to collect data and create a keynote to present to the class, first Adlih collected data for our causation part of our project. Her question was “Do plp students without keyboards take longer to write blog posts”, since…

I remember at the beginning of the school year Adlih and I were at the boot camp to set up our iPads, we were surrounded by grade 8’s and I remember I could barely keep up with what Mr. Hews was getting us to do and I thought, oh no this is gonna be a rough year.  My first year plp taught me a lot about myself as a learner, I…