The POL Declaration “Thank you for coming to my presentation of learning. I am the expert on my own learning. I am also responsible and accountable for my own learning. You can expect me to give an honest evaluation of my progress. We will discuss my strengths and opportunities for growth. Thank you in advance […]
🌊 Bon Voyage!
🏎️ How can we use Storytelling to Investigate What Sparked Global Exploration and Understand its Impact? 🤔 What is Exploration? 💭 Imagine eating a big plate of pasta with lots of tomato sauce and cheese sprinkled on top. Imagine if I told you that if exploration never happened you probably wouldn’t be eating that? Exploration […]
DI Reflection Keyboard
Rose, Bud, Thorn Reflection For the end of DI we had to do a reflection on what went well, what we could improve on, and what went badly. It was a way to reflect on something that had many bad and difficult things and good things that we can celebrate. Rose 🌹 For the rose, […]
Atom Chase – A Video Game Based Off Neutrons
🏎️ Driving Question: The driving question for this project was:How can we model our knowledge of the atom in a fun and creative way? What Did we Do? There were many things that we had to do to complete this project, we had to figure out how to use scratch, thankfully I had done it […]
Working With Words and Writing Poems
🏎️ How might I write poetry that I enjoy and shows who I am? This was the driving question for the project “Working With Words” I was really confused, worried, and muddled when I found out what the project was about. We had to write a book full of poems using different poem techniques and […]
Radical Innovations or How It’s Going
Exhibition For the winter exhibition, we had our parents come into the gym to look at our work. What did we even do? We presented a set of 3 tableaus, one in medieval times, one in the Renaissance, and one in contemporary time. A tableau is made up of people that stand without moving creating […]
Different Aspects of Drawing
Introduction This project was… difficult (for me anyways.) this is probably because it was mainly focused on drawing in Sketches Pro, and… I can’t really draw. I had to explore different techniques which included using colour to make our drawings look better, we had to sketch and doodle, we used lights and shadows, and we […]
Power Play During the Medieval Times
Introduction Our driving question was “Can we learn from the past and why does that matter to us today?” Yes we can, but it goes much deeper than just that. How? We read ‘The Book of the Lion,’ put ourselves into medieval art, and did a LOT of reflecting. So sit back and relax while […]
It’s the End of the World! *Wait.. Not Really*
It’s the End of the World!!! It’s the end of the world? Wait, no not really, we had to write a song, sing it, record a music video, and post it to our YouTube channels (which certainly felt like the end of the world). In our project, we made a song that was like“The End […]
Reflecting on my First Maker Project
“Failure is success in progress” -Albert Einstein, this quote really summed up this project. In my first ever maker project I made a slideshow documenting who I was as a PLP learner. I learnt a lot of different things in this project and there was a lot of things that I did well in. What […]