Thought 33: Grito de PLP 🇲🇽 Welcome back to my “informative” and “insightful” blog. Today, we are talking about nationalism. We just finished a project on nationalism. Specifically, my project was on Mexican Nationalism. I am not actually Mexican, I am Iranian, but I found out that the only nationalist events in Iran during the […]
Thought 32: Loon Lake Learning Advance 🌲
Thought 32: Loon Lake Learning Advance 🌲 Welcome to what is probably my most important blog post yet. This post is to summarize and analyze our first PLP field study; the Loon Lake Learning Advance. Loon Lake is an outdoor learning facility in British Columbia, near Maple Ridge, or about 1 hour away from North […]
Thought 31: mPols 2022
Welcome to my grade 9 mid-year presentation of learning. This blog post is to demonstrate my learning over the last few months and to express where I had successes and FAILs. This post is not related to any class or project, I am merely expressing my thoughts on the learning I have done this year. […]
Thought 30: Chemistry Stories
Thought 30: Chemistry Stories ⚛️ 🚨SOUND THE SCIENCE ALARM NEW SCIMATICS BLOG POST 🚨 This project was all about chemical bonding. To explain the process of how 2 atoms can share their electrons, we were tasked with making an animated video that demonstrates both ionic and covalent bonding. I decided to use Gold Cyanidation as […]
Thought 29: Working with Words 📝
Thought 29: Working With Words 📝 To read or not to read; that is the question for poetry. Before this project, I would have chosen not to, but after writing a book on poetry the answer, is maybe. For this joint PLP 8-9 project, we were tasked with writing a book about poetry, to express […]
Thought 28: Revolutions on Trial 🐖🇺🇸
Thought 28: Revolutions on Trial 🐖🇺🇸 I was brought to court, but for a completely different reason than I was expecting. This project explores revolutions and the legal system. We started this project with a Nation X simulation. I have no idea what Nation X is because I was not at school that week. The […]
Thought 27: Correlation Vs Causation 📊
Thought 27: Correlation Vs Causation 📊 How are correlation and causation different? This project was all about surveys. Surveys are important ways to get data to help us understand things. The survey questions I chose, will NOT help you understand things. We were challenged with surveying the class, and find correlations and causations in our […]
Thought 25: Take Your Kid To Work Day
Take Your Kid To Work Day 💼 2 weeks ago, I participated in Take Your Kid To Work Day 2021, an annual event were grade 9 students get to spend a day at their parents workplace to experience what its like on a job. My parents own an operate Dip Co. Delights, a local sandwich […]
Thought 24: People and the Environment 🐵
Thought 24: People and the Environment 🐵 “How do people and the environment affect each other?” We were asked this question on day 1 of this project. To answer this question, the class was challenged with writing a letter to a politician, and convince them to make changes in their policies. As someone who doesn’t […]
Thought 23: Guess Who’s Back?
Thought 23: Guess Who’s Back? The time has come for my first blog post of PLP 9. For our first project of the year, we had to make a board game using laws of exponents. My partner for this project was Colton. I will link his blog at the end of this one. Our game […]