It’s that time of the year again for DI (Destination Imagination). With this being our second year we are going back as stronger teams with more understanding for the challenges. If you would like to check out last year’s DI challenge click here. Destination Imagination is a program that consists of 6 different categories including fine arts, engineering, technical, improvisational,…
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Florida Trip
A few weeks ago, our PLP flight 9 class went on a field study to Orlando, Florida for 9 days. This trip was a part of the unit we were working on based around the question of what Draws us to Imaginary Worlds. What better place to experience an imaginary world made real than the happiest place on earth DISNEY…
Down, down, down the rabbit hole
In January, with the new year and school term, our class started a unit based around one question “What draws us to imaginary worlds?” We started off the unit by learning about Wonder. We studied how without wonder the world wouldn’t go around because it is wonder that sparks our curiosity and creativity. We then went on to learn about…
Seattle Trip
A few months ago the PLP flight 9 class went to Seattle for 3 days. This is part of the field school trips that every class in the program goes on in order to learn in real world experiences. For this trip we were assigned a video project in groups about someone who follows The Apple company and Steve Job’s…
Science Lab
For the past little while in science we have been learning about the periodic table of elements and recently we have been learning about how to combined elements to make compounds. This past class we did a lab and made copper and aluminum chloride by separating copper and chlorine and adding aluminum. What happened when we did this experience was…
Wonder
Since school has started up again we have started a new unit about fantasy and wonder. The first class back we started talking and brainstorming about wonder and what we associate with it and what it is. We came up with a long list including things like the unknown, curiosity, innocence and so forth. Here is the list we…
Harry Potter Blue Sky
For the past month we have been working on a project called The Blue Sky Project. These projects are very open as the only outline that we have to come up with is a question that we have to try and answer. Twice a year we have an exhibition for these projects and this year the grade 9s theme for…
Element Superhero
For the past few weeks in science class we have been working on a group project called the superhero project to learn about elements and the periodic table. To start off the project we first had to decide the groups for the project, so we had a class vote with three options of who we wanted to make the groups…
Metaphor Machine Finally Finished!
Yay finally done our biggest project we have been working on so far this year called the Metaphor Machine project. It was very hard, challenging and took way longer than expected but in the end I think my group’s machine turned out very good. If you haven’t already read my previous blog post about the midway of this project then…
Bring Your Kid to Work Day
This past Wednesday all across Canada it was Bring your kid to work day for grade nine students. It was basically where we got to experience and learn about what our parents do at their work and also maybe get an idea of what you would like to be when you are older. You get to go around and see what…