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 […]
tPols 2022
TPOLS 2022 Why do you feel you are ready to advance to the next grade? In this presentation of learning, I will be demonstrating my learning over the last year. I will be exhibiting my growth and why I am ready for PLP 10. In this blog post, I will be recapping my school year, […]
Thought 40: Documentary Film 🎥
Thought 40: Documentary Film 🎥 How can I engage and entertain an audience using my video and storytelling my skills? For the last Maker project of the year, we expanded on our Vibrant Video project by making individual short documentaries. For documentary, I chose to create a film about Climate Change. More specifically, why it is […]
Thought 39: Meiosis Models 🧬
Thought 39: Meiosis Models 🧬 How is the reproduction of cells essential to the survival of organisms? This project began with this question. We all know that all living things have to reproduce, but how? Human reproduction is the form of reproduction we were most familiar with, so at the beginning of the project we […]
Thought 38: Vibrant Video 🎥
Thought 38: Vibrant Video 🎥 Welcome to the project where I have created possibly the most chaotic things in all of PLP. We have embarked on a relatively short video making project. Over the course of this project, we used 2 different editing programs: Clips, and iMovie. iMovie is a more traditional video editing program, […]
Thought 37: The Great War 🔫
Thought 37: The Great War 🔫 How might we use graphic novels to understand Canada’s involvement in WWI? World War 1. The Great War. The predecessor to the “not so great, but still alright” World War 2. This project is all about the First World War. We began this project with an introduction to a […]
Thought 36: The 7 Habits 📖
Thought 36: The 7 Habits 📖 How can i be my most effective self? “Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny.” For this maker project, we were asked “How can I be my most effective self?” To answer […]
Thought 35: Metaphor Machines ⚙️
Thought 35: Metaphor Machines Welcome back to my blog. Today, I will be reflecting on our Scimatics project, Metaphor Machines. For this project, we had to build a Rube Goldberg machine that is a metaphor for the scientific method. It also has to use 2 types of electrical circuits. We spent the first part of […]
Thought 34: Destination Imagination 2: The Imaginationing 🧠
Thought 34: Destination Imagination 2: The Imaginationing 🧠 It is time, for Destination Imagination 2022! (Applause). We have technically been doing DI since the beginning of the year, but we really started to work on the solution in February. I was put onto the technical challenge with my teammates Declan, Dana, Makenna, Alfie, Sylas and […]