During this past term we started a new math unit and learned about polynomials. To help us better understand this unit we went the basics to make sure we had an understanding of prime factors, powers and a couple simple expressions. We also learned how to convert mixed radical numbers to entire radicals. While we were learning about these we…
Disruption Essay and Podcast
Since January we have been working on a unit about disruption, based around the question: how has technology been a disruption throughout history. During this unit we focus on a couple main projects including a disruption podcast and a synthesis essay. However before starting this project and essay we started by learning and discussing the meaning of disruption. At the…
Seycove Disruption
A couple weeks ago our class went on a big trip to California where they went to San Francisco, San Diego and San Jose. I unfortunately didn’t go because of an important volleyball tournament and basketball playoffs but it sounded like a very fun and yet educational trip. While my class was away I stayed back with 4 other of…
MPOLS!!
It’s that time of the year again when we show our learning and present it to our parents and teachers, yep Student Lead Conferences. But this year they aren’t called SLCs or Tpols instead Mpols which I think stands for midterm pols but don’t trust me on this. As I’m in grade 10, this is my third year doing them…
Everyone Has a Story
For the past couple of years in PLP, we have had Exhibitions every 6 months to answer an inquiry question revolving around a certain topic, but this year for us grade 10s our winter exhibition was a little bit different. During the time leading up to the exhibition we didn’t really know what we would be doing as the grade…
Treasure Island
It’s the first week back at school after winter break and the busy schedule of balancing sports, school and other activities has already begun. During the two weeks off we were tasked with reading a book called Little Brother, written by Cory Doctorow. This book was the first part of our New Unit called Disruption, which is based around the…
Sins of The City
Since our last big project about World War One, we started a new unit called Sins of the City. This unit was about the differences and similarities of the lives of people during the interwar years (1920 to late 1930s) in Vancouver. Our unit was based around the question “Through the emergence and growth of Vancouver, was the experience the…
The Golden Ratio
Recently in Math class we have been learning about operations, powers and algebra in our second unit of grade 10 math. During this unit, on top of worksheets and mini quizzes, we also did a big project to show our understanding of the unit. But before that we started off by learning a bit about the golden ratio through watching…
Namesake Video
Recently in class we have been learning about the history of Canada between the 1920s and 1930s known as the interwar year. As you might already know my last blog post was about World War One and since then we have started lo learn about these interwar years and the effects they had on Canada. One of the things we…
DNA and Genetics
Since my last science blog post on safety in the lab our class has learnt and done an entire unit on DNA and genetics. Now usually I find it sometimes hard to understand and grasp some of the concepts we learn in science but I find throughout this past month I learned a lot. This unit was based around the…