Hello everyone and welcome back to my blog. For our last project in maker we have been working on a podcast series so in this post I will be talking about that.

First we had to pick a topic and make a “vision board” for it. We were allowed to pick a topic we were passionate about and that definitely made this project a lot easier. The topic I chose to do my podcast on was hockey, more specifically Jr hockey. I wanted to highlight different leagues, talk about different levels/teams, drawing from my experiences and my friends experiences.  

My vision board

After this it was pretty much right into planning, so for me this looked like finding people to interview for my podcast and what questions to ask them. This was also coming up with a name and designing cover art. The name I decided on for my podcast is “Situational Awareness”, the name comes from a game my coach played with us last season where he’d throw some sticks onto the ground then ask what number it is between 1 and 5 and saying to pay close attention to the sticks, but he would be holding the number on his hand, so you would need to be situationally aware to get the correct number.  Then for my cover art I made it look like the jersey for the Barrhead Bombers Jr A hockey club, a Jr A team I was given the chance to play for as an underage player in Jr A. My time with the Jr A Barrhead Bombers was short but I really enjoyed playing at the Jr A level and the Jr A experience.

Here is my cover art, as you can see it looks like the Jr A Barrhead Bombers jersey, just with my podcast name and not their logo. The blood stains on the jersey represent the violence and fighting on and off the ice in Jr A hockey, which you can learn more about on my podcast.

Overall, i thought this was a really fun project. There were a lot of challenges to overcome such as getting people to interview, finding time to record while i was in Europe, translating questions and answers, and a lot of recording issues. Throughout this project I learned a lot about different hockey leagues across the world, patience, and even a little russian while recording an episode about the MHL in Kazakhstan.

Episodes for my podcast:

MHL – Vlad Shtenko, goalie for Kyran Karanganda ✅

CAJHL – Ben Yerxa, centre for Barrhead Bombers

PJHL – Justin Collusi, defenseman for Richmond Sockeyes

GMHL – Noah Mayer, defenseman for Edson Eagles

USPHL – Noah Mayer, defenseman for Rogue Valley Royals

For PGP, I have just finished reading “Atomic Habits” by James Clear. Personally, I dislike reading and thought this book would be terrible, but it actually wasn’t. While it did drag on in parts, this book was pretty interesting, and I learned a lot from it. For example, sitting down and getting schoolwork done while staying focused on the task at hand has always been a struggle for me. I would sit down and get my iPad out, but within seconds, I would be distracted by something. While reading the book, I learned that just sitting and doing my schoolwork won’t always work because of the systems behind it. My desk is filthy and covered with papers, cans, dishes, elastic bands, etc. There is barely any room to put my iPad on my desk, and there are distractions everywhere. So instead of just throwing all my garbage on my desk, I would take the time to walk to a garbage can and throw it out before it piles up on my desk. Same with dishes, instead of stacking them on my desk, I’d put them right by my door, so I’d remember to take them to the kitchen when I’d leave my room. After a while, my desk started to look a little better, and I’ve gotten a lot more done. I can say that I am writing this from a (somewhat) clean desk!

For PGP class, we also did this thing called positive brain training or PBT. Since early February, I have been practicing the different PBT methods we were taught: journaling, exercise, meditation, conscious acts of kindness, and three gratitudes. My personal favorite was journaling. It felt like a safe place where I could just get all my thoughts out and write about whatever I was thinking about without being judged.

Overall, I enjoyed “Atomic Habits” and would recommend it. I also enjoyed most of the PBT and feel that I am a better person.

in April we completed a project called Vibrant Videos which I do not know much about as I was sick for the majority of the project. In this project I was supposed to learn different filming skills and how to add different special effects to videos. I was there for the first week and it was how to add voice overs and what not, then I got sick and when I returned about 2 weeks later you could imagine how shocked I was when people were putting car crashes over videos of them biking. this seemed like it would have been an awesome project and it was a shame to miss most of it.

Recently in PLP 8 and 9, we went on a trip to Loon Lake in maple ridge! It was a pretty big deal considering it would be both classes first felid study, even popular cartoon character carter pewterschmidt tweeted about this incredible event.

the bus ride there wasn’t too bad,, only took about an hour. When we arrived everyone was shocked with the beauty of the lake and the forest (no loons though). When we arrived we did a nature walk and I didn’t see one bird or a squirrel which i found rather odd because we are in the woods.

The food on the trip was super good and there was a decent variety of meals. The activities were really fun too. We did a big game of capture the flag, battle archery, laser tag, and building shelters in the forest. During shelter building, i went to grab a stick and about 45 more sticks fell on me, it hurt a lot and i thought i was going to die until about like 7 minutes later when i was ok. Overall it was a pretty fun trip!

Learning Advance 2022

Click to read this book, made with Book Creator

https://read.bookcreator.com

Hello, welcome back to my blog. Today i will be talking about our latest scimatics project “chemistry stories”. We had to make an animation cartoon thing that included covalent and ionic bonding.

One of the first things we did in this project was an experiment. But before we could do the experiment we had to make an animation on the procedure to make sure we knew what we were doing and to make sure that we wouldn’t end up setting fire to the class room. 

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The experiment was pretty cool and nobody ended up setting fire to the class.

 Processing and analyzing:

I showed this while working on milestone 4, the story board of our final animation. I didn’t show it in the storyboard but i ended up doing a wile e coyote and roadrunner theme. I had correct information and models of chlorine, magnesium and nitrogen that i really wished i had used in milestone 5 because it wasnjt so good.

After i made my story board i could move onto the final project. I wish i had spent more time in class to finish creating my final animation. Overall this project was kinda fun but would have been a lot better if i had paid attention the whole time.

final animation (average)

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For our final project of the 8th grade, we had to make a comic book about diseases and cells.

Questioning and predicting

I chose to write my comic on the SARS virus, a coronavirus that went on from 2003 to 2004. This virus os very similar to COVID-19 considering that they are both variations of a coronavirus. SARS infected less than COVID-19 but it was more deadly if you got it. After doing some research, i found that it infected 8,096 and killed 774. I got the idea to do the SARS virus after watching an episode of “South Park” where everyone got infected with SARS.

Scientific communication

In the comic book I displayed a few diagrams. I tried to make them look realistic but I am not an artist so they did not turn out that way. I drew the comic in Noteability and put it together in “Comic Life”. Comic Life is a really simple app to use so if you want to make a comic I would definitely recommend it. Even though my drawings look like they were scribbled on a notepad by a toddler, I feel I did an okay job representing how SARS attacks cells. Charlie Brown also made an appearance in my comic as his face was on most of the viruses but other than that I think I was pretty scientifically accurate with my story

Evaluating

Once again, I tried my best to be as scientifically accurate throughout my comic and have the interactions of the characters as scientific as I could. Other than the Charlie Brown viruses I think I did well with that. I could have put a bit more detail into my comic and probably would have been able to if I had started earlier but that is a lesson learnt on my side. Now that I’ve talked a bit about my average comic, I might as well show it to you!

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Hey, I am back once again to recap on another project! For this project we got to make a 3D object designed for maximum surface area or maximum volume. I worked in a group with Dylan and Carter and we designed a garbage/recycling bin for maximum volume.

Reasoning and Analyzing
As I mentioned before, we designed a recycling bin for maximum volume. We weren’t sure what to make, then we randomly thought of a recycling bin, no clue why or where it came from, but since we couldn’t think of anything else, we went with it. Here is our model:

Carter designed the wheels and I did the calculations

I designed the bin and Dylan did the calculations

And Dylan designed the lid and carter calculated it.

Communicating and Representing

We had to measure 3 shapes volume and surface area, cylinder, rectangular prisms, and triangular prisms. Here are the formulas and our calculations:


Calculating the volume and surface area of the cylinders was pretty hard and confusing. It took me a few tries to get the correct answer, but eventually I did.

Applying and innovating

During this project I was focused and on task the whole time. No distractions whatsoever. I was perfect. Ok,, maybe not, but I tried to stay focused the whole time and was on task for the most part.

One complaint I have is that tinkercad, the program we worked in, wasn’t always the best. It would always say “session lost or expired” then when you recovered it you would end up on the other side of the grid nowhere close to where you were working. Other than that this project was super cool. Would definitely do it again.

In class, we just finished the Chemistry coding project. This project was centred on the atomic theory and the kinetic molecular theory. At the start of this project I had no clue what these were but now have a pretty good understanding of how atoms behave and how the react with other atoms.

For this project we had to create a game or simulator that included the kinetic molecular theory. For the first step, we had to draw atomic models that we would include in our game.

Then, we had to make a list of what would be in our game and how the user would interact with it so our teacher could tell us if it included the kinetic molecular theory or not.

Then, we got to code our game. To code our game we used a software called scratch. I have used scratch before but was never really that good at it so coding the game was a bit challenging but I got it done.

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/529098523

Competencies
Questioning and predicting: i went off task a few times during this project but I still spent most of my time on class working on the game and fixing it so it could be as good as possible.

Scientific communication: I showed this skill in learning. At the start of this project, I had no knowledge on matter, molecules, and atoms. Now I know a lot about atoms like how they move, what causes them to melt, what causes them to slow down or speed up.

Reasoning and analyzing: I was able to improve my game by learning from the mistakes I made in the previous versions. My coding skills improved by fixing the bugs and mistakes in the game.

Overall this project was a bit frustrating because scratch isn’t always that good but other than that it was super fun and i had a great time coding the game.

In class we finished our project on European settlement. The driving question for this project was “what did European settlement mean to everyone involved?”. We came to the conclusion that European settlement resulted in the Europeans and First Nations trading goods and services. The goods they trade have changed over time, but the economic relationship has remained similar! Our task was to create an info graphic about the 3 groups we learned about, the French, the British, and the First Nations.

Milestone 1:
In milestone 1, we wrote a paragraph about the continuity and change of Deep Cove in last 100 years. The fun thing about this was that is we got to go outside and sit in the forest to write it!

Milestone 2:
For milestone 2, we had to think of 3 changes, and 3 continuity’s from the time of settlement

Milestone 3:
For milestone 3 we had to come up with our facts for our info graphic. We needed a fact for each group during the time of settlement. We also had to create a drawing for each group.

Milestone 4:
Milestone 4 was our final info graphic. After many revisions due to the drawings not matching the aesthetics, grammar, punctuation, etc., we finally finished our info graphic. We also had to make a YouTube video explaining our info graphic.

Milestone 5:
For this milestone, we put up our info graphic. Kwosen and I put our info graphic up at Seycove’s front door.

This project helped us navigate through different apps such as keynote and Canva easier and grew our understanding on European settlement!