Hello internet! It hasn’t been a long time since the last time I blogged, because the school year is coming to a end! Just recently us grade 8, 9, and 10 just did our Spring Exhibition. For the exhibition our driving question is: using one of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals as a guide, how would you solve a problem facing our community/province/world? Having that question in mind, we first look at the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, from there they discovered the 17 goals and I choose goal number 8 which is helping people to get good jobs or find ways to help economic growth. Then, I do my “how might we” form, pitch form, design/ blue print of my final product, and then lastly I make my product. Along the way we had to do our LAUNCH journal, which I will be showing below with the UN’s Sustainable Development.
The curriculum competencies are:
Communicate – How do I share my own ideas when I write, speak, and present? To answer the question, I share my own ideas when I write, speak, and present by handing my work in regularly to my teacher and I show them to my family, because that way they can have comment on my work and it helps me improve my learning.
Use Evidence from Various Sources – How do we evaluate evidence to decide if it is adequate to support a historical conclusion? We can evaluate evidence by researching on the internet about the artifact weather if it is a adequate to support a historical conclusion, to check if the resource I got was right I would look on other websites and see if the sources match.
As it for my final product, it is my story you can check that out down below.
Anyways that it for this post enjoy your summer break, see you!
Hello internet! It hasn’t been a long time since the last time I blogged, because the school year is coming to a end! Just recently I finished a unit in humanities called Every Object Tells a Story. For that unit our driving question is:How can artifacts teach us about settlement, peoples, and life in New France? Having that question in mind, we first watched videos about New France, from when they discovered it to the end of the wars. Then I learned that the people who settled in New France used that artifact and basically it’s up to you to imagine how they could have used it and the story behind the artifact. The curriculum competencies are:
Communicate – How do I share my own ideas when I write, speak, and present? To answer the question, I share my own ideas when I write, speak, and present by handing my work in regularly to my teacher and I show them to my family, because that way they can have comment on my work and it helps me improve my learning.
Use Evidence from Various Sources – How do we evaluate evidence to decide if it is adequate to support a historical conclusion? We can evaluate evidence by researching on the internet about the artifact weather if it is a adequate to support a historical conclusion, to check if the resource I got was right I would look on other websites and see if the sources match.
As it for my final product, it is my story you can check that out down below.
Hello internet, this week is the last week until summer break, and the week that my group finish the ULTIMATE ROAD TRIP !
First lets began with the driving question: How can we model changes over time? So first I went with the idea of buying a sports car, but later I saw an photo of a RV with a lots of space inside of it and it’s a lot cheaper so I went for that idea instead. To answer the question: we can model changes by recording data of the changes over time.
Curricular Competencies:
Reasoning and analyzing: Estimate reasonably. For this competency, I had to estimate how much money I can spent without over budgeting.
Connecting and Reflecting: Connect mathematical concepts to each other and to other areas and personal interests. I connected my interest in travelling to the mathematical concept of budgeting.
Communicating and Representing:Represent mathematical ideas in concrete, pictorial, and symbolic forms. I used algebra symbols like X and Y…
In this project I learned mostly about budgeting and the equation for my trip to show how much money I will have spent at the end of each day. If you want to see what it looks like in the RV Here is the link Anyways one other thing is the budgeting of the expenses of the whole trip.
also we had to calculate our average daily expenses from the beginning to end.
what to improve: I should probably stop going off task while I’m researching. Other things that I should improve on is getting the correct calculation, and double check my calculation afterwards, because my calculation is incorrect.
Well that’s it for this post see you guys next post!
It’s getting close to the end of the year and the time for the “celebration” of the end of the year. This year I met some new friends and and teachers, but most importantly I met PLP. The first few days I wasn’t really used to everything that was on PLP, from using iPads all day to the amount of homework to do. Just a few months ago we did our mPOL and I think I completely failed in.
Just like other student in PLP I get really proud of myself when I get a rainbow, which in PLP it really mean A++, AKA the best mark you could possibly get. I had some rainbows but, of my work completed this year, I’m most proud of was DI. This year, I did my first DI and it was not as bad as I thought. Although my group—Erin, Logan, Dries, Josh—didn’t not win the regionals, but comparing to other groups in our class we had the highest score, which made us more proud of ourself. I was also glad that everyone enjoyed our story, although we did have to make some changes in our props.
Enjoyed project
DI was fun and excited, but most of the time we didn’t know what to do since it was first time, so as time went by DI got pretty stressful, but I would still consider it one of the fun projects. Choosing the project I enjoyed the most wasn’t as hard as it would be now comparing months ago, and as I’m writing this post I thought of two different projects that I really liked. Since my favourite subject is Art (also because I’m good at it) it would be “The Power of A Pencil” but I also Really enjoyed “Knocking on Heaven’s Door” because we got to travel to different religious buildings. When I looked back at my first mPOL I saw that I have already did “The Power of a Pencil” as my favourite project in my mPOL so it leaves me with “knocking on Heaven’s Door”.
Valuable lessons
This year went by very fast sometimes I couldn’t even keep up, but as time pass I got used to it and I learned some valuable things along the way. I learn that teamwork is more important in PLP than in any other programs, like our DI group for example, some teammates might not like each other in the beginning, but as the project progresses we get along with one another. There will be no way that we would have ever succeeded if we never worked together.
I wanted to share all the projects That has good grade with my family, but just recently we started a project called “A Sustainable Blue Sky” where I came up with the idea of helping my country’s economy grow even if I’m just a student. After I finish that project I will definitely post the poster I will be making in the internet and maybe I could help the country’s economy with that poster.
As the last week of my first year go by I still recall when I first came to this wonderful school, going to my very first class—scimatics (science and math combined)—there I learn how to add and subtract unlike faction, how to get the density of something, how to get the surface area and the volume of a share and more, going to maker—which eventually became my favourite PLP course—learning how use the Apple Pencil better, doing my first exhibition and DI. Then going to humanities learning the best way to make an ad, studying about religions. Well my point is I learned a lot in just one year!
At the end I wanted to say thank you to my teachers, I wasn’t the best student and I don’t have very good grades, but they always helped me when I’m stuck with problems, because of them my grades improving which to me is a huge success.
