Here is my recommended song for this post. So along with our main unit on the Manhattan Project. We got the oppritunity to go down to Hanford. It was a short trip, only 3 days, but we were able to do a lot of really fun things. We started the trip by driving all the … Continue reading Hanford, The Most Radioactive Place in America
Here is my recommended song for this post. So, once again we have done another year of PLP and we have done another year end blue sky project. This year was drastically different than previous. We as Grade 10’s have already done two years of blue sky so to mix it up we were … Continue reading Blue Sky 2018
Here is my recommended song for this post. So we recently went on a class field trip. We went to the BC Tech Summit at the Vancouver Convention Centre. There was a day during the summit called Youth Innovation Day. The day involves many speakers, mentor tables, university presentation stations and a whole lot of … Continue reading #BCTechSummit
Here is my recommended song for this post. Well, we are finally done DI. Forever. I have been doing DI for three years and it has been a very interesting experience. We won’t be continuing with DI next year because PLP is going down to just 2 classes. English and socials. Since sciences and maths … Continue reading Good Job Team
Here is my recommended song for this post. So, if you haven’t read my post about California then I suggest you do. This post will make a lot more sense if you do. While we were down in Cali we were learning about a key concept of how the world grows. Not just in the … Continue reading Disruption, the Key to Making the World Awesome
Here is my recommended song for this post. So as I mentioned in my California post we went to a school called High Tech High. High Tech High is a school focused solely on PBL. (Project Based Learning) they take curriculum units and turn a whole unit into learning and then transferring the learning into … Continue reading High Tech High
Here is my recommended song for this post. Two weeks ago I got back from a trip. We went to a place more magical than Disneyworld and a lot warmer than Oregon. We went to California. Now when I think of the golden state I think of Disneyland and heat and palm trees. Not … Continue reading California, The State With More People Than Canada
It’s that time of the year again. It’s time for the all powerful mPol’s. Time for me to reflect on my current grade 10 experience. I will be covering the work I’m most proud of, the skills I have developed and want to improve, the work that showed the most teamwork and my goals for … Continue reading mPol’s, I’m still going to call it SLC’s though
For the very first humanities unit we learned about World War One. We started off by looking at Canada before the war and how it was doing socially and economically. After doing a short project on that we looked at how the war began. We did a project on that which is the subject of … Continue reading The Great War (It wasn’t very great though)
Last week the PLP 10 cohort went on a trip to Camp Capilano. They advertised it as a retreat where we could hang out and bond as a class. We did that but we also did three projects! During the class, before we left, we watched a quick video that Hughes had put together of … Continue reading Camp Trapilano