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The Wild West (of British Columbia)

For this project, we did a “Namesake Project”. Our driving question was “How can we help people who aren’t from BC know more about BC’s history?” Most of the class went to Victoria on a field study, but I stayed behind and worked on a Vancouver location. Before I get into the video, I wanted…

Like Terms, do I like them or not….

For this term in Scimatics, we learned about like terms. Like terms are a bit confusing and I had a hard time at first understanding them. Like terms is when you have an Algebraic expression (this is the part where a bunch of numbers and letters are written out with adding, subtracting and multiplying), and…

Louis Riel: Hero or Villain (or just plain nuts)

For Humanities we have been looking at early Canadian history through the lens of power. Our driving question is: How does power alter relationships between individuals and societies. So to begin, we are going to be talking about Louis Riel. He’s kind of a controversial figure. Some people say he’s a hero, and some people…

Exponent Games

Hello everyone! For this term in Math, we got to create a card game using exponent laws. I was partnered with Amelia R . This was more challenging than it may seem as we had to not only make a game that was easy and free-flowing, but at the same time mathematically plausible and followed exponent…

mPOL

My mPol is supposed to be about what I have learned so far and how I can improve as a learner, some struggles I’ve been having and what I think is difficult about PLP, how we managed our time, and what decisions we made about how to spend our time. The big thing for this…

Winter Exhibition 2018

For this Winter Exhibition, which PLP does every year, we had to create and immersive room using chemistry, a theme, and a story. Now you may be wondering how all these things can become linked and made into a project. Let me explain. In Science we had been learning about chemistry, specifically ionic and covalent…

Video Reflection Learning Post

This term in Maker, we focused on showing our learning through videos. At first this seemed like an easy one for me – anything that involves less writing for someone who is dyslexic is a bonus. However, we quickly learned that there is more to making an amazing video than just having the camera rolling….

Chemistry Story

In Chemistry this term we learned about atomic friendships. There are two kinds of atomic friendships that make new compounds or molecules. Ionic and covalent. The main difference in these two friendships, or bonds, is how generous the atoms are with one another. Ionic bonds are more generous because they donate their electrons to the…

Metaphor Machine

Hi to anyone who is still out there reading this. This post has been a long time coming. Literally. As I mentioned in my Alberta post, or at least I think I did, my memory is not back to full strength yet, shortly after coming home from our Alberta field study I got a bad…

Take Your Kid to Work Day

We ended this term with a great opportunity for another live event video – take your kid to work day. I have to admit that when I first thought about trying to film this, I was a little worried. My Dad was the parent taking me to work but most of the time my Dad…