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Destination imagination-the finale product

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What is destination imagination? (Which i will now be referring to as DI) is a hands-on, project-based educational experience that encourages creativity, collaboration, communication and critical thinking skills. Each year seven new STEAM challenges are created by teams of content experts and educators to help students from K to Grade 12 learn HOW to think, not WHAT to think. Destination Imagination applies the creative process to help student teams create their own unique solutions to the requirements posed by the Challenges. So that is their own explanation of what destination imagination is, but my take on destination imagination is that it is one of those things that are created by rich people who mean to do good. My first experience with DI was when i was about 11/12 years old when my mom tried to get me and a one of day friend and one of his friend to do DI together, but i never saw the point of it. In my mind it was some dumb challenge. So then a couple of years later when i am in high school, i am in a programme called the plp and they tell us that we will be doing some programme called di and i payed no mind to it

Eventually it came time for me to do destination imagination imagination and they told us to pick a challenge out of improve, fine arts technical and scientific. I wanted to do the technical challenge e but they gave me the scientific challenge. In the scientific challenge we had to have a mysterious object, a type of microscopy technique and we had to have two team choice element s that we incorporated into the story. We then had to create a story make some backdrops, create costumes and have some team choice elements incorporated into the story an or backdrop.

The other thing that we did at di was an instant challenge. I am not aloud to talk about my instant challenge, but i can talk about what an instant challenge is. An instant challenge is something that you have to do on the day of a di tournament you are give an challenge by the appraisers. Most of the challenge are either improve based, building a solution for something out of limited materials, or created a prop for a story. 

The final thing that we had to for DI was we had to take a team photo in a car.

Here is my horrible explanation on whaat DI is, underneath is some media of my DI experiences.

 Here are my groupmate’s blogs Jackson, Susan, Caden, Kadin, Owen, and Naomi.

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Coded Chemistry

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So what was the chemistry coding project about? It was about learning about the kinetic molecular theory and take what we had learned and put it into a game or matter simulator focused on science and what we had learned. But what was the driving question of this project? It was: how can the behaviour of matter be explained by the kinetic molecular theory and the atomic theory.

So what did we learn and how did we learn it? 

Well we started with a project start mind map about what we knew about the project and chemistry, that kind of thing. Then we read some text books and answered some question on the text books to show ourselves what we knew, what we need to know and what might want to touch up on. We also did some experiments, to learn, to drive some points home and to pique our interest in the d project in other ways to motivate us. One of the experiments that we did was the gemstone identification challenge. Our teacher: mister Gross gave us some cheap gemstones to identify using a method. An other thing that the experiment helped teach us was the scientific process and how to record our findings. Once we had done all of our learning we started coding our projects on scratch: you can see mine here (at the time of writing this i have some minor adjustments to do) i decided to make a matter simulator instead of a game because i am not creative enough to make a game on science.

Here is my mindnode

 The basis of my simulator is that you start with a menu screen and you can pick a particle or atom to have simulated based on the temperature. The different options of things that you can have simulated are: salt, lithium, neon and xenon, two of them are solid at room temperature: salt and lithium and two of them are in gas form at room temperature, neon and xenon. Once yo had picked one of the option, it would then send you to a “particle simulator screen” where there would be four buttons, one to increase the temperature and one to lower the temperature. The particles would then change the speed at which they would move because of temperature, proved by the kinetic  molecular theory. Once you were there and kinda stupid and/or lost you could press the help button which would tell you the obvious thing to do, duh. Once you want to have another ting simulated you press the back button and then pick  another particle. 

That was my blog post on my project, thank you for reading!

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The Renissance, a change engine

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The latest project that i did in humanities was on the renaissance. The renaissance was a time in Europe that brought about great changes to society, how things worked and how war was waged. The main goal of this project was to learn about the renaissance, its important people, works of art and inventions. Once we had learned about these things we had to write a paragraph on the change that came out of the renaissance that we thought was the most important and we had to make a tryptic comparing how things and inventions work now compared to how they worked back in the time of the renaissance.

The thing that i chose to write m paragraph on was the musket, you can see that below this paragraph. The main points that i talked about in my paragraph were how the musket was important in the renaissance, how it brought about change and how it is important nowadays. I think that the musket is the most important thing to come out of the renaissance because it changed and affected the lives of so many, i think that make it the most historically significant things to come out of the renaissance. For a more detailed account of this check out the actual paragraph, which is below here.

There are many important people inventions and concepts to come out of the renaissance and after doing some reading about different things in the renaissance i think that the most important thing that came out of the renaissance is the musket, a ancient muzzle loaded precursor of the modern gun. So the musket was not the first firearm to come out of the renaissance it is the second after the harquebus. The musket came out of Spain, but would be used all over Europe. The musket was used all over Europe but why was it used so much? Well it was used because it did not require as much training to use as the bow or the crossbow, as they train from a very young age, whereas the musketeer would train for a month or two. An other reason why it was used was because it could be shot much harder than any arrow and it could pierce much stronger armour than any bow as during the renaissance stronger armour was starting to be forged. The musket has gone through many changes and advancements, some during the renaissance and some after the renaissance, which prove that the musket is historically significant. Anyways what changes has the musket gone through: so i started as the heavy arquebus, then eventually became light and became the musket. About fifty years later the flintlock musket was a thing, but there was not true flintlock muskets till the seventeen hundreds. Why the musket was so important in its time period. It was important because masses of people could be trained to use it, so it was very common to be used, it was important because it could combat the evolving armour of the era, as it was getting much tougher, so the average crossbow or bow could not pierce it, making one of the most viable weapons to be used and it could be used in mass making it very appealing but why was the musket historically significant? Well first we need to know what the definition of historical significance: significant events including those that resulted in great change over a great period of time for large numbers of people. So the musket did this by changing how warfare worked and works currencies by changing how people could kill each other, it changed how projectiles could go through the armour at the time. It also after creat numbers of people by having them killed by someone using the gun/ musket. And finally an other argument on why it is historical significant, it has won wars, as in a war whoever is more Technologically farther will probably win the war. Why the musket is relevant to today? The musket is relevant today because it is the ancient predecessor to the gun and in some part the rocket which are very important and relevant weapons of war today because they are used by almost all country when it come to war. War is still a modern concept as the conflict in Ukraine proves, so the fact that the musket evolved in to the modern gun make it important. The final reason is that it has been produced in mass making it relevant. Sources: Wikipedia and Encyclopedia Britainca.

The other things that we had to do in this class was make a tryptic. But what is a tryptic? A tryptic is a image with three panels, and we used the different panes to represent different times. So in my tryptic which you can view here i used photos to demonstrate the differences between now and the renaissance and how it changed how we do things now, one example if this is i put a picture of Copernicus and Neil deGrass Tyson to represent how things have changed between now and the renaissance. If you want a better idea of how i did this, look at the tryptic here.

But what was the point of all of this? Well the point was to learn how to demonstrate historical significance, what is historically significant and why it was important. The other reason was to learn how make a tryptic, how to use the app SuperimposeX to make and edit the images. That was the point of this project.