Telus, Bell, or Virgin Mobile?

How can we figure out which provider is best? Does one plan end up being more expensive than the other? In this project, we will be figuring this all out, as you saw in the title, we will be ussing examples from Telus, Bell, and Virgin Mobile. This is our driving question for the project: Constant rate of change is an esssential attribute of linear relations and has meaning in…

Flow Like Water

My Final Video  Unit End Mind Map Solve problems with persistence and a positive disposition + Apply flexible and strategic approaches to solve problems: While learning this unit, I took notes based on Mr. Gross’s lessons, as well as asking for support from my classmates. By educating myself with different strategies, I was able to find a system to solve the equations that worked best for me. Because I began…

DI Regionals 2019

What’s DI? As this is my second year in a row of taking part in this tournament, I’ve become a bit more familiar with what it’s all about. Briefly, Destination Imagination is a project in a sense, a project in which you are given a challenge from a category, my team was assigned the technical challenge. Within this challenge, you have a problem to solve, ours being, to create an…

Very Reactive ‘Round the World

What is a chemical reaction? Well, that question will be answered within this post, supported by a video and in class labs. To begin with the basics, we made sure that we knew all 6 of the chemical reactions.  Acid base neutralization  Combustion  Single replacement  Double replacement Synthesis  Decomposition  With this small amount of prior knowledge, we created a list of questions around this topic to start off our inquiry. …

The PLPodcast

The Basis  What is the legacy of World War Two in Canada?  A loaded question, a question that can only be answered with knowledge of the war and knowledge from someone who has experienced the war in their lifetime. Luckily, I had access to both of these sources during this project.  Before the process of creating our answer to this question, we discussed and studied the world of podcasts. Listening…

MPOL 2019

How Have I Improved Since My Last MPOL? A couple of the goals I made for myself in ninth grade, one being time management and not letting school takeover. I believe recently with the help of time blocking, I’ve almost completely achieved my goal.  For the past couple of years in school, I have been struggling to find a way to keep track of my time, making sure I use the time I have…

Is it a Label or a Mindset?

  An Introduction Crazy, a word I’ve ought to have said about ten thousand times by now but here I am saying it again. From the very beginning of this unit I thought that the word crazy had many different meanings in different contexts, some of those contexts not being too cheerful. But over the duration of this unit, I realized that it wasn’t a dictionary definition we were looking…

The Polynomial Picnic

  Why picnic? Well, it had a nice ring to it, but this title also connects to Maggie and I’s new math game. During the time we had to complete this project we covered many topics and curricular competencies. Here is my unit mind map to show a couple of the topics. The basics of this project was based around the mathematical concept of using physical tiles to explain algebraic and…

blog challenge: week 10

After ten weeks of challenges and creations, I’ve been able to strengthen my skills in certain areas aswell as learning brand new skills. Aside from all of the challenges I completed, I really liked that I was able to connect with other students through my work. Until now my blog has been a website for my teachers to see but now I have had other kids from around the world…