May | 2018 | lauren.

Meiosis and mitosis, what’s the difference?

We’ve recently finished a science unit, all about reproduction. We learned about the different ways organisms reproduce, and how we can also clone plants. We cloned both dandelions and potatoes. Our potatoes grew so well, however, our dandelions did not work out so well. We did not have any successful sprouts with our dandelions. Now…

WWI, the comic

World War 1 was a brutal, tragic, bloody war. How did it even start? Why do we have to learn about it? Those were questions I had before learning about WWI. This war was very important to the world, and Canadians as well. But how did WWI impact Canada and it’s identity? That’s the question…

Polynomials math project

The school year is almost done, which means we just finished a project, just in time for one last one before school ends! This math project was based around polynomials, but this project was different from the rest. This project, we got to choose what we wanted to do, and how we wanted to do…

Destination Imagination part 2

Destination Imagination is officially over for this year. Provincials is now over, which means we are finished DI. This year, DI has been very difficult, but it taught me a lot. But before i get into all of that, let’s first go into the transition from regionals to provincials. In regionals, we didn’t do too…

dear ottawa, thank you

We are back from yet another field study, this time to Ottawa! However, this trip was different. It was not a traditional PLP trip, but it was with a company called Encounters With Canada (EWC). Encounters with Canada is a government sponsored company that bring youth ages 14-17 to Ottawa to learn about different subjects….