Monthly Archives: December 2017

(Insert Awesome Ratio Here)

Posted on by under Math & Science, School

Hello, Internet.

So, recently in math we’ve been learning about the golden ratio, and the Fibonacci spiral. The golden ratio, 1:1.61803398875, is a ratio that appears in many famous structures and shapes, as well as in a lot of places in nature. The Fibonacci spiral is a spiral that follows this ratio.

We did a project around aesthetics that involved creating something (a drawing, model, song, etc.) that showed the golden ratio and Fibonacci spiral. I wanted to see if the spiral could help me draw more realistic facial anatomy, so I drew a girl’s head from the side. Then I added in clouds that have the Fibonacci spiral in them, and a sidewalk made of rectangles that adhere to the golden ratio.

This was my write up for the project:

In order to display both the golden ratio and the Fibonacci spiral in my work, I started out by drawing a girl whose head and ear line up with the Fibonacci spiral, then added in background details such as the clouds, which each have three Fibonacci spirals within them, and the grass, which has stripes that demonstrate the golden ratio.

I zoomed in on the screen in order to measure as accurately as possible, and measured the long side of one of the grass stripes to be about 3.4 cm, and the short side to be 2.1. The ratio between these two numbers is approximately equal to the golden ratio (1:1.61803398875). I drew a rectangle around the main Fibonacci spiral in the right cloud, and measured the long side to be 8 cm, and the short side to be 4.9 cm. The ratio between these numbers is also roughly equal to the golden ratio. I drew a rectangle around the Fibonacci spiral lining up with the head and ear of the girl depicted in the drawing, and measured the long side to be 10 Cm and the short side to be 6.2 Cm. The ratio between these two numbers is also approximately equal to the golden ratio.

I think the spiral did successfully help me draw a good-looking drawing using facial anatomy, so I would consider this project successful.

Toodles!

(Insert Awesome Reconciliation Here)

Posted on by under Humanities, School

Hello, Internet. Merry December. The classroom is full of fairy lights and poinsettias, students are wandering the halls in Santa hats and festive jumpers, and everyone’s getting ready for the Winter Exhibition.

However, that’s not what this post is about. This post is about
Social Studies. More specifically, it’s about a socials project we’ve been working on concerning social justice throughout the history of Vancouver.

 

For this project, we were split into groups based on the specific topics we were interested in, and asked to create a podcast about our topic, and how it affected Vancouver, in the interwar years and now. My group’s topic was Aboriginal Rights.  Specifically, we focussed on two things: Residential Schools, and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

 

In order to get some firsthand information on residential schools and First Nations rights, we interviewed Joy Fontaine-Cramer over the phone. She gave us an insight into the lives of her parents growing up, and her job now. We had to cut down her interview in order to integrate it into our podcast properly, but listening to all of what she had to say was very interesting, and I wish we could have kept more of it in.

 

Our final project ended up going on SoundCloud, and we’ve sent it to Joy Fontaine-Cramer in the hopes that she can listen to it,

 

Now that we’ve finished the podcast part of our project, we’re working on writing essays that we’ll eventually amalgamate into a letter to send to Terry Beech. Each letter must address a problem related to our subject, and suggest a way to help solve that problem. For my group, we’re addressing the problem of stereotypes surrounding aboriginal peoples, with the suggestion to add discussion about these stereotypes into the BC curriculum in order to dispel them in the future.

 

Toodles!

 

 

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