Thought 22: Comic Cells How do cells and diseases interact? Welcome to the final project of PLP 8. This project was all about cell interaction. We had the task of creating a comic book about cells, diseases and bacteria. I chose to make my comic on how heart disease attacks your body and how you […]
Thought 21: Ultimate Design Challenge 📝
Ultimate Design Challenge How can we design an object to optimize its shape? Design is important. Design is professional. Design is the form in which we determine the visual and functional value of an object. For this project, we were to take an object, and optimize it’s design for maximum surface area or volume. We […]
Thought 20: Chemistry Coding ⚛️
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 […]
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 15: Student Blogging Challenge: Endgame
The student blogging challenge is over 🥳. For the last 5 weeks, we were challenged to write 10 blog posts on various topics to get us to blog like a boss. I think my favourite of my posts was day 6 when we got to write about music. I liked it because I got to […]
Thought 14: The Inner Workings Of McDonalds 🍔.
For Day 10 of the Student Blogging Challenge, we had the ability to create a blog post about anything we wanted. Because of that, I decided to write about 2 things I am definitely an expert on: Real Estate and Hamburgers. Here is my topic. Why McDonalds is a Real Estate Company and How Franchising […]
Thought 13: Iranian New Year 🇮🇷
Iranian New Year/Nowruz For day 9 of the Student Blogging Challenge, we have to write a blog post about a holiday we celebrate. There is a holiday very special to me that not many people I know celebrate. That holiday is Iranian New Year or Nowruz (Which means “New Day”). Iranian New Year is celebrated […]