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…
Midway Metaphor Machine Blog Post
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…
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…
CISV Philippines Summer Experience
So far my summer has been amazing and packed full with family trips and fun with friends but the best experience this summer was definitely going to Bacolod in the Philippines for a 2 weeks youth meeting. The program I went with is called CISV, CISV is a international organization which promotes global friendship. It was invented after world war…
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…