For the past couple of weeks I’ve been reading a book called Atomic Habits, written by James Clear. This book is based around the four laws of behaviour change: cue, craving, response, reward. Each section of the book focuses on these four laws, in the result of replacing your bad habits with good ones. The main message in the book is that, the little steps matter much more than you’d…
Why 1950? After learning all about the fall of WWII in our last unit, as a class, we jumped right into the raging rise of the Beat Generation. As we walked along side the white picket fences of the suburbs, we noticed the prominent dividing line between the house wives, and husbands out on their perfect green lawns, and the beat niks. From here, we were to study the…
Introduction to Tribalism This unit was launched by the exploration of the meaning of the term tribalism, and what connections it has to our society today, and in the past. Here formed our driving question: “What is the role of tribalism in society” Before we worked towards creating a definition of tribalism for ourselves, and an answer to its role in society, we had to do some research,…
It’s been quite a while since I’ve posted on my blog, and I’m here now to write all about my opportunity I had to travel to New Mexico early this October. I was slightly confused why we were traveling to New Mexico before we started our trips unit, sure maybe the green chile and breakfast burritos were apart of the appeal, but as my class and I were presented with…
The Workplace Risks The first piece of information that we were faced with was, WorkSafe BC’s Lost Youth Video, this is a short documentary featuring four different teenagers telling their stories of their workplace injuries. Some of the statistics that the video started out with were the most eye opening part of the video. Stats such as: “In British Columbia, one young worker is injured every hour” or “34 young…
Why do you feel you are ready to advance into the next grade level? Why did I choose to write about the projects below? The projects I am about to mention, are all examples of my work shown by category. One of the categories being a subject (Science, Math, Humanites, and Maker), the other being the importance of PLP student characteristics. There were a lot of projects I…
The mission was to create a machine that turned a hand held generator, to produce energy. Luca and I decided to use the power of wind to our advantage, by building a small windmill. This is my mind map for my the beginning of this project, and the one below is my mind map I made after this project. This is our design for the product. As you can see there…
Who Am I To start off our section of Career Life Education within maker class, we all signed into My Blueprint. My Blueprint is a website that guides you as you figure out your high school, post secondary, and career plans. But before I dove into that topic, I learnt a little bit about myself. But what could a website full of surveys possibly tell me about myself, that I…
Introduction of Project + Minorities in Canada We began with the idea of what minorities are in general; then we evolved to brainstorming, what kinds of minorities we know of in Canada. This was the definition that we came up with: a relatively small group of people commonly with a small amount of power or representation. After we had a definition for this word, minority, we brainstormed the main minority…
If you haven’t read this years Regionals Post, then in order to understand this post, you should probably read that one first. If you have read my post linked above, then here is my experience with Destination Imagination Provincials 2019. My Groups Revisions To anyone who saw my group’s Regionals presentation, it was obvious that our main, and biggest revision, would be our aircraft. Because most of our time to…
