Inspired the powerful story of the Edu Blogs staff member, Alex, the self taught coder. We had the opportunity to do some coding ourselves. I visited a website called hour of code, where we had the opportunity to choose from tons of different games to code. The Challenge I tried the dance party game, the challenge was to make your avatar do an assortment of movements or dances, to a song…
In order to get into the holiday spirit, our edu blog challenge was to choose from 5 different holiday tasks. I decided to try the holiday emoji game. We got to choose from multiple personalizations such as our facial expressions and clothing. Once I chose the details of my emoji, I had to put all of them together in the right order to that each of the options were in…
This week of the blogging challenge was more laid back than the others, we had the opportunity to write about which ever topic we were interested in. I decided to write about axolotls. It is pronounced “ax-oh-lot-ul”, these little amphibians are apart of the salamander family. These small creatures are only found wild in the lakes of Xochimilco, Mexico, but are also pets all around the world. Wild axolotls are a…
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
