For our first solely science based project this year, we focused on the driving question, can cousins be twins? This question may seem a bit random but this topic goes hand in hand with our focus of gentectics and reproduction. As we do before every term we began with a unit start mind map, where we can express all of our prior information and questions before the unit begins. Our task…
The Inquiry I’ve decided to focus this post on rainbows, a mysterious array of colours in the sky that has made me wonder from a young age, how do they appear in the sky? Why do I only see them after it rains? Why are they in an arched shape? I found a video by a channel called “its okay to be smart“, it explained everything I needed to know…
Task 1: Using Apple’s Live Loops Live loops is a simple and accessible way to produce your own music, learning the basics of the app can be very beneficial for projects like ours in PLP and for anyone wanting to create their own media. This is my song. Activity 1: Triggering Loops Before jumping into making a song, it is important to become familiar with the options that live loops…
Why does it take a crazy person to change the world? To start off our inquiry into this question we watched Apple’s “Think Different” campaign, as the people in that video would be the “crazy” people we’d be studying. We also made sure to confirm what crazy really meant. There are 3 main categories of crazy, such as mentally insane, a change maker and someone enjoys dangerous activities. https://youtu.be/cFEarBzelBs…
Our focus for this weeks blog challenge is similarities and differences. Students all over the world are participating in the challenge, and even though it may seem like we are all so different from other people our age, we must be reminded that we may all live on different continents but we all share the same home on planet earth. I decided to try out the “two types of people” task, here…
What is a synthesis essay? Our task at hand was to finally answer our driving question, how do authors use text to teach us more about our selves, completely in our own words. We completed this task with our in-class synthesis essay write. Using my knowledge from More Happy Than Not and Persepolis, and Wab Kinew, we answered our prolong driving question. What is the most difficult step when preparing for…
This week’s EDU blog challenge was to get creative with emojis. We had many choices including a quiz, math game or a picture. I decided to take a different route. Here I created a food themed Emoji crossword puzzle. Answer Key Below
For this weeks EDU blog challenge, we were asked to create a post based on non-copyright images and the options you have when adding media to your blog. Here, I will show you two options that I’ve used for my blog posts in the past. talking about taking pictures, how the quality matters + link to blog these were used in Taking Your Own Pictures Here are two different pictures of a…
