Over the school year in humanities,the PLP 10 class has had somewhat of a theme in podcast projects and podcast creation. The goal of this is to refine podcast skills and have really great podcasts by the end of the year. Our recent project, The People’s Podcast was no exception. For this podcast, 5 groups […]
Read more "The People’s Podcast"Destination Imagination is not your standard high school project. There’s no poster boards with paragraphs glued to them, monotone oral presentations or last minute Prezi’s. Destination imagination is a project where you can put your craziest ideas together with friends and channel them into something meaningful. Want to break things? Engineering. Build things? Technical. I […]
Read more "Destination Imagined"In your average science or math class you usually do lots of lessons at the beginning of a unit. After that, you take a quiz, study, and then a test. This kind of format is great for learning things quick but it often has no connection to the real world. In Scimathics however, things are […]
Read more "Hey, Can I Get Your Number?"As time goes on, school changes greatly because of a number of factors. One thing that hasn’t changed since the beginning of high school though is our annual spring project destination imagination (“affectionately” named D.I.). In D.I. you and your group are given one of many challenges. In my case the fine arts challenge. In […]
Read more "Destination imagination"Recently in Scimathics we have been working a project that is all about graphing and linear equations. To show this interestingly, we decided to take sets of data that have to do with constantly changing water levels in major bodies of water rising or falling consistently at a rapid rate. For this mini-project that was […]
Read more "Flow Like Water"Back before the winter break and the PLP exhibition and everything to do with it, the entire PLP 10 class went down to Seattle. We went down there to learn about crazy people what does crazy really mean. By crazy, I don’t mean some sort of maniac, I mean a revolutionary, a visionary and a […]
Read more "Seattle"What is a chemical reaction? This question among many others is the type of question we are asking in our chemistry unit this term. Almost all of term 2 has been dedicated to our class learning and understanding reactions between different chemicals and what happens in and around a reaction. At the end of the […]
Read more "Chemical Reactions!"Many people have many different opinions on WW2. Who was affected the most, what happened in this or that battle or what even happened at all. With many smaller questions like these, we come to a bigger question. “What is the legacy of WW2 in Canada?” This is the question we’ve been examining in our […]
Read more "A Lasting Legacy"Once again, everyone in PLP is doing their Mpol or Midyear presentation of learning. it is the time of year to reflect, evaluate and improve the learning I do in PLP. It’s time to look at all the work I’ve done, what I’ve done well, not so well, and everything in between. It’s time to […]
Read more "My Mpol"Why does it take a crazy person to change the world? This is the question we’ve been exploring in our humanities and maker classes for a few months and it’s taken until now to come up with a solid answer and a way to present that answer to the world. At the PLP winter exhibition […]
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