Each time I leave for a plp trip, I’m don’t have a solid idea of why we are going to these certain places, like Calgary or Ottawa. It’s only when I return home and reflect, that I realize how much information I took in during the time I was away. Field studies show us that you are learning constantly, wherever you go theres something to appreciate and gain from the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
