Chemistry Coding ⚛️ How can the behaviour of matter be explained by the kinetic molecular theory and atomic theory? Like many adolescents my age, I enjoy playing video games. Luckily for me and the rest of PLP 8, this project was all about making video games. But there was one catch: The game had to […]
Category: Reflection
Thought 19: The More Things Change 🦫
The More Things Change 🦫 What did European Settlement mean for all the people involved? This was the driving question for this project. The main goal for this project was to make an educational infographic about European settlement. We had to accompany the infographic with a YouTube video presentation of our infographic. We were to […]
Thought 18: Argh Matey 🏴☠️
Argh Matey 🏴☠️ What was the impact of global exploration? This project was about the Age of Exploration, The Columbian Exchange and the Golden Age of Piracy. This timeline of events takes place in the years 1400-1600. The first major event in this timeline was when the Portuguese King hired a sailor named Vasco De […]
Thought 17: Destination Imagination
As per PLP 8 tradition, Our class was entered in the 2021 Destination Imagination Tournament. If you do not know what DI is, it is a world-wide learning competition where teams of 4-6 people have to find the solution to the challenge. This year, we had to present our conclusions in video form. In our […]
Thought 16: Growth Mindset 🧠
For the last few weeks, everyone in the class was granted the opportunity of a lifetime: To write a journal about our mindsets. We used an app called Book Creator to produce our journals. We learned about a few topics including grit, persistence, failure, and the Growth Mindset. The growth mindset was by far the […]
Thought 12: How It Started/How Its Going
Thought 12: How It Started/ How Its Going How can we learn from the past and why is it important today? This project was our 1st of term 3. For this project, we had to create a meme in the format of “How it started/How its going.” After this, we created a digital museum and […]
Thought 7: Laser Laws 📐 💡
Thought 7: Laser Laws 📐 💡 How can we test the pythagorean theorem and the law of reflection? Group members Blogs Mateo Carter This was our 3rd Scimatics project and our last one of the year. We were assigned to make triangles, using lasers. In a way, it was sort of like an art project. […]
Thought 6: Tectonic Chances 🗺
Thought 6: Tectonic Chances Ben’s Blog Answer to Driving Question Question: How are thematic and mathematical elements used in game design Answer: Mathematics are very important to game design. For example, Our game supports up to 6 players. To win, you must get 12 Progress Points. It is possible for every player to win so […]
Thought 5: Fractions of Your Time Reflection 🖥
For our first project with Mr Gross in science was to track our screen time over the course of a week. Communicating and Representing In the grey graph, you can see that 45% of my time is on a screen. In the green graph, I found out that about two thirds of my time is […]
Thought 4: How does what we Hear Read and See Influence us?
Final Reflection The project we have been working on the last few weeks, is about to come to an end. Our group has finished our final draft for Arms Reach Bistro. The advertisement will be included down below. We submitted our final draft earlier this morning, where we also attended a virtual lecture by an […]