Thought 51: Save Juno Beach 🪖 Why is it so important to preserve the juno beach centre? In this blog post, we will be talking about our project on World War II. We started this project as all other start, building knowledge. To do this, Ms Madsen spent about a week showing us presentations about […]
Category: Reflection
Thought 50: Power Of Imagination 🎢
Thought 50: Power of Imagination 🎢 How do Disney theme parks shape and influence the cultural, economic, psychological, and social experiences of visitors? Welcome to Part 2 of my Disney world series. My first blog post in this collection is about our Trend Video project, which you can read by clicking the link here. That […]
Thought 49: Trend Videos + Disney World 🏰
Thought 49: Trend Videos + Disney World 🏰 How do I make personal effective design choices? For our first Maker 10 project, we were given the opportunity to go on our largest and most ambitious field study yet, but getting there would be a challenge. Maker 10 is the PLP design course, and for our […]
Thought 48: Atomic Habits ⚛️
Thought 48: Atomic Habits ⚛️ How does balance in my life create opportunity? Our first project of PGP (Personal Growth Plan) 10 is almost an extension of one of our projects in Maker 9. Around the end of Maker 9, we read the book 7 Habits of Highly Effective people, and this is probably the […]
Thought 47: Romeo and Juliet 🎭
Thought 47: Romeo and Juliet 🎭 Sepaus, Sepaus, where art thou blog post? ‘Tis here. For this Humanities project, we took a look at the Shakespeare play Romeo and Juliet. We had a very short time to do this project, so we started right away by spending a week reading through the play. We read […]
mPOL 2023
mPOL 2023 It’s time again for my midterm presentation of learning. In this post, I am going to detail my experience with PLP 10 so far. I will discuss my strengths, weaknesses, highlights, FAILs, and more. Coming in from the summer, I was motivated. I had a very good year for learning last year, and […]
Thought 46: Ology of Apology 🇮🇳
How can we keep apologies for past wrongs alive so they are remembered – and not repeated – today? For this project, we took a look into the past injustices of our nation. We started by listening to a short podcast about the history of halloween. I can’t really remember why. We started the project […]
Thought 44: Gold Digger ⛏️
Thought 44: Gold Digger ⛏️ How did the discovery of gold shape our province and its people? “Wake up. Its the first of the month.” – Jordan Carter If you couldn’t tell from the quote above, this is the first blog post of PLP 10. For our first project of the year, we picked things […]
Thought 43: Time is Money 💵
Thought 43: Time is Money 💵 How can we predict our finances for the future? My last blog post of PLP 9 is about our last Scimatics project, Time is Money. For this project, we created small businesses, sold a product of service, and used linear functions to calculate our future profits. For my small […]
Thought 42: 2022 Spring Exhibition
Thought 42: 2022 Spring Exhibition How do we make deeper connections beyond our classroom? The final demonstration of our learning was at the annual Spring Exhibition. The Spring Exhibition takes place at the end of every year where PLP students take control of the whole school to demonstrate our learning through interactive experiences, food and […]