In class for the past few weeks we have been working on a big project called “Metaphor Machine”. Throughout the process up until now we have been researching and learning about different concepts that will all together create our machines.We first were split into groups of four or five, these were the groups we would be working on this project…
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Dream House Project
In math class we have been learning about similar triangles, scale diagrams, enlargement and reductions and similar polygons. To understand some of these we did some worksheets called Blueprint Dream house. Throughout these worksheet we work on different things like finding the square footage of a room and turning a scale model into what would be the actual size. We…
Railroads Visual Essay
In class we have been learning a lot about revolutions especially the industrial revolution in Britain. During this time we were assigned a project that consisted of researching the causes and consequences of the railroads in the industrial revolution in Britain. After finding some information on this subject we had to create a visual essay on what we had learned.To…
Steampunk Question
For this blog post our class had to research an inquiry question that each of us had to individually come up with about steampunk. If you aren’t already familiar with steampunk then let me explain. Steampunk is a genre that consists of science fiction, fantasy and steam powered machines. Here is a diagram chart thing we made in class to…
Crane Brinton’s Theory Question
The school year has started again and this term we are jumping right into writing our blog posts. In class we have been studying and learning about different revolutions and a man named Crane Brinton who wrote a theory about all revolutions. Brinton wrote this theory in a book in 1938 called the Autonomy of a Revolution where he talked…
Museum Project
Here is the SLC intro If you haven’t yet checked it out: SLC intro For the last little while we have been learning about the Age of Exploration. With the information we learned we were split into groups and had to make a museum exhibit. My group was doing “Means to explore” which means we had to research stuff like…
Scimathics Project
Here is the SLC intro If you haven’t yet checked it out: SLC intro For the scimathics project I think everyone was a little confused at the start as there were so many aspects to include in one project. We had to include the story about how the Ravens stole the light, Ibn Al-Hatham’s theory that he proved about how…
Blue Sky Project
Here is the SLC intro If you haven’t yet checked it out: SLC intro The Blue sky project was probably the biggest project at the exhibition night and was mostly what the night was all about. We had to come up with an idea or something where we could invent or improve upon something to answer a “How Might…
SLC intro
For the past term we have been working on a few projects for a exhibition night which was just on Thursday from 5 pm until 7 pm. For this night there were three projects that we had to do, Blue Sky Project, Scimathics project, and a museum project. I was very worried and stressed about all the project but when…
Renaissance influenced western worldview visual
A few weeks ago we were tasked with finding three people from the Renaissance, a thinker, an artist and a scientist or mathematician. With these people we had to make a triple Venn diagram to show their differences and similarities. The people I chose were Pope pious the second who was a thinker, Masaccio who was an architect (this is…