The Wilderness Must Be Explored!- last blog post of PLP 8

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Thankfully, this is my last blog post. I wish we could make videos instead of writing. Like a GRWM and we tell you guys all about how school is. Maybe I’ll do that sometime. Anyways, today I’ll be telling you about our driving question, our PLP 8 trip to the Oregon Coast, my thoughts, and core competencies for the spring exhibition of 2024!

Before I get started, I just wanted to say that if I compared my feelings about this exhibition, to the winter one, this just felt like a little presentation for friends and family. I was also wayyyy chiller than the winter one.

Oregon Coast.

I want to start off with the best. Not the best for last. Even though I don’t really have a best in any of my posts. Maybe this’ll be a first. Anyways, about a week or 2 ago, my PLP 8 class and I took a feild trip down to the Oregon coast BC. I was very lucky to have my grandparents pay for me, even though my entire family thought this was a cool opertunity for me to step out of my comfort zone, as well as learning new things in a whole different environment and country.

I don’t got a clue on how the heck I should start this. Hmmmmmm. Okay, so in PLP, every class goes on a field trip. PLP 8 goes to Oregon. So that’s what we did. This was a very very cool experience for me. Last time I went across the U.S border was not recent. I thought this trip was super fun because I’ve never been away from my family for a week before. I got a little bit homesick but I was with all my friends and they’re almost like family too. We got to visit so many cool places. Here is a book we had to make and document every day in.

I would love to go back to Oregon.

Now, time for the boring stuff, classroom work. We had a driving question, How Does Language Inspire Adventure.

I think language inspires adventure because if someone speaks the same language as you, they could talk you into taking an adventure somewhere. Ooooor, if you wanna learn a new language, you can go to the country that speaks that language and learn it from there. But that’s just my thoughts.

About a week we came back from Oregon, we had to do a Spring Exhibition. PLP 8 had to make ads for Oregon and why people should go there. Im going to try to make this short because I kinda just woke up and need to get ready for school soon otherwise our engineering teacher will mark me absent. So I was in a group with Brooklyn, Oliver, Emilia, Sawyer and Robin. I think we all did a good job communicating with each other and letting each other know how we feel with a certain idea that someone had. We could’ve made much more improvement if we had more time.

Core Competencies That Were Involved.

I think for this overall project we had to accept feedback, contribute, be helpful, be respectful of your classmates and their ideas, and be a reliable team member. One big competency is communication. If you don’t communicate with your group or teacher, you wont get anywhere.

thank you so much for getting to the end of my zesty ahhhhh blog post. I might update you guys in the summer! Only 2 days of school left to go!

 

My TPol

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Intro:

Welcome to my presentation of learning. I am the expert of my own learning. I am also responsible and accountable for my own learning. You can expect me to give an honest evaluation of my progress. We will discuss my strengths and opportunities for improvement. Thank you in advance for listening and offering feedback that I can use to improve as a learner.

Main Focuses:

In agency I chose to tell you about “resilience”

In preparation I chose to talk about “outside of school”

And in communication I chose “with peers”

For resilience, I know I definitely give up easily and become discouraged when someone gives me a setback. Most of the time I try to finish what I started, but I do give up sometimes.

Last MPol I was talking about how I wanted to be more organized and manage my time better. I think I definitely improved on that. It’s just taking a lot of time. Thats why for preparation, I chose to talk about outside of school.

Lastly, with peers. I engage when Im in a group and come up with ideas. I will accept feedback, but sometimes I wont change what I already have and forget about what feedback they gave.

Destination Imagination (DI)

A couple months ago we got put into groups for something called Destination Imagination. We were in groups of 5. We had to present something that had art in it. We decided to make a colosseum. It wasn’t massive. It was just a little fold out that we could all crouch behind. It was kinda like a drama presentation. Here are my teammates blogs:

Julia

Robin

Ian

Samuel

I think DI made me more comfortable with preforming. The hard part about this was remembering my lines. One of my group members had no clue what theirs were and I relied on them to know mine. I also had to learn them in 2 days while I was in Whistler. That was very stressful. On top of that, I was very sick and could barely speak.

 

Science:

My favourite experiment so far was definitely the Petri Dishes. We collected bacteria from surface areas with Q Tips,wiped them on the Petri Dishes and let the Petri Dishes cook over the weekend. We came back on Monday and took a look at our bacteria. Personally, I chose to swab my iPad and phone. In the end they both had ALOT of bacteria. I learned that I should definitely use a Lysol wipe and wipe my screens more. I would definitely do this project again.

However, our most recent work in science has been on vaccines. After learning a whole buttload about vaccines, we had to make a poster on vaccines and the myths around them. For example, here’s mine. I chose to do it on how the Covid vaccine doesn’t cause autism.

One last thing we did in science was learn about the cells in our immune system. These were the white blood cells, B cells, T cells and macrophage. We also learned about what they’re fighting off, the pathogens.

After learning all that, we had to make little immune system cells. I did mine on Paw Patrol.

Humanities:

As you already know, we took a long drive down the Oregon coast. This is PLP 8 classes first field trip (field study) that we’ve had. The field trip was a week long. Most of my friends have gone to Keats Camp for a week during the summer. But I’ve never done that before. So this was my first time being away from home for a week. One of my worries was not being able to contact my family if something goes wrong. Every couple days, I’d call or text my mom and tell her what we did that day and all that good stuff. I was glad we were able to stay at the hotel first because you realized what you didn’t download on the way there and could do that before bed. I wish we stayed longer at the hotel because I looooved who I shared a room with. I also really liked taking a trip to the ice machine. The ice machine reminded me of Gemma and I’s midnight runs to the ice machines. Those are good memories.

About a week after we came back from Oregon, we had a Spring Exhibition. We were put in groups before we left to Oregon. I was in a group with Brooklyn, Sawyer, Emilia, Robin and Oliver. I think we did pretty well for the time that we had to make it in. We did something like beer pong. You got 3 tries to get the ping pong ball in the cups. If you did you get a 2 Bite Brownie or a cake pop that Emilia made. I think we should’ve found something that drew more people to our ads. Most of the people went straight to the food. But I guess I would rather food over looking at ads.

 

Conclusion:

Im very happy that grade 8 is almost over. I think one thing I could do next year is check Showbie more often. Next year, Im looking forward to foods and to do more in science. 

Thank you for listening to my TPol of 2024.

 

Science- Small But Mighty

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Welcome back to another post! This one is about science and vaccines.

The driving question was “how does our knowledge of cell biology contribute to public heath?”

Experimenting with Petri dishes!

This was probably my favourite experiment so far. We got to swab an object, wipe the swab on the Petri dish, and wait! The waiting part was a little bit hard, but the results were crazy. So, I decided to swab my iPad and my phone to see which one has the most germs. I touch both of them on a daily basis. Who knows. I predicted my phone to have more bacteria, because it is a smaller surface area, and more people touch it. The results: they were equally as dirty, and it was kinda gross to look at. I would definitely do this experiment again.

My Field Journal.

My field journal was used to keep track of the Petri dish, my hypothesis and the bacteria growing. We had to be VERY specific with our observations otherwise it wouldn’t make a whole lot of sense.

Immune System Cell Cards

So a week or two after doing the Petri dish experiment, we started learning about our immune system and all the cells that are inside you that help to fight off germs and diseases. We had to make character cards for the t-cell, b-cell, macrophage, white blood cell and the pathogens (germs and diseases). I drew a couple of the paw patrol characters. Here they are:

Why Don’t People Get Vaccinated?

Moving on to the next thing we learned, vaccines. The thing that we mainly focused on was, why don’t some people get vaccinated? Some reasons are: the vaccine was made rushed, the side effects, gives you autism (the one that I chose to do) and that it puts a micro chip inside you. Most of those reasons are pretty stupid, so I decided to make a poster to show that it doesn’t.

The End!

I learned so much in the past few months in science. It is very important to be educated on these things so we can get knowledge to pass onto future generations.

Cheers!

What Were The Consequences Of Colonization??

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Welcome backkkkk. Today we’re talking about my group project that we did and had to answer the driving question (title).

First up, I thought I should mention craft. Craft is an amazing note taking note taking app. It’s also for very many other things like organizing your day, writing rough drafts of report cards, all of that. I would recommend it and give it a 9/10. It’s not a 10/10 because the AI stopped working (maybe I was using it too much) and I’d have to pay some big bucks to get it back. Getting back on track, we had to take notes about documents we’d read so then we could use those notes later on to make a…… *drumroll*…. Presentation *crowd falls silent*. Yep. We were to present this in front of the gr 11’s who study the First Nations people and their colonization.

Next, me, Gemma and Cece (my group) had to use Keynote to make the actual presentation with all the notes we took. We did diseases. We did have to do more research because in class we didn’t talk about diseases very much. I’d say we had about a week until presenting. So that was good.

Presentation day.

During the day we were presenting, I was really not feeling it. But we had to present it 2 times. After that I was really glad it was over with.

You’ve reached the end! Have a nice rest of your day🤍

mPOL ☝️🤓✨

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Hello. This is my mom and dad, Kristina and Lauren and I think Jared’s here too.

Introduction:

Thank you for coming to my mPOL. I am the expert of my own learning. I am also responsible for my own learning. You can expect me to give an honest evaluation of my progress. We can discuss my strengths and opportunities for growth. Thank you in advance for listening and offering feedback that I could use to improve as a learner.

One thing that I’ve seen that my classmates do that id like to improve on is not leaving work till the last minute. I try to get it done before it’s due but sometimes I’ll hand it in like 5 or 10 minutes after it’s due. I’d also like to work on organization. Im not an organized person. Things doesn’t really help me so sometimes I just write a checklist of everything that I need to get done and that works better.

An example question that we had the option to answer is “did all the work you completed this year meet your standards?”. I’d say no. Some of my work was rushed and I had to redo it. Some of my work was in a group but some people take over. All that kinda stuff. The work that I’m most proud of are my window notes that we did in humanities with Ms Willemse. I think it was good for me to do because you got to relate to stuff that happens and I’m very good at relating. Here are my window notes:

There we go.

Humanities
In humanities I liked writing poems and reading The Outsiders. I like the language arts part of it. Socials on the other hand… is not my favourite. Learning about the world, places in the world, the past is kinda confusing and hard to understand. I think over time I’ll start to like it.

The Learning Plan that we did a while ago

I dont really remember when we did this but we did. It’s a learning plan. One thing we did was set goals and see if they were accomplished by the end of the year. My goals were to complete my work on time or even hand assignments in early and work on my time management.

 

Work Habits

So… as I was saying earlier im not the most organized person and that I have to work on that. I was also saying about how I use a checklist and check off the work I finished. I like to work really hard, get stuff done, then take a 10 min break and get back to work after that.

The Basics

Revision… So whenever Im bored, looking through Showbie and see a revision emoji, I’ll redo it. But normally my grades get lost in my emails. When I redo it I see what I did wrong and change up some things.

Teamwork…  I like working in groups but sometimes that can be hard. There is always 1 or 2 people controlling the group so sometimes people in the group get left out. I like getting in there and helping, but once in a while I will let other people do more of the work.

Responsibility… Im not very responsible. I get most of my work in on time but then sometimes I just forget.

Thank you for your time. Any questions??

Story Blog Post

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Welcome back to another. Today our driving question is; how can we use storytelling to investigate what sparked global exploration and understand its impact.

AR Makr

If this is your first time hearing this (which it probably is) is because it’s a really glitchy app that makes photos come to life and 3D. It would be pretty cool if it wasn’t so glitchy and the audio quality is better.

The three G’s

As soon as you read that you’re probably wondering what the 3 G’s are, Gold, Glory and God. God: Most people were Christian. They thought they had to spread that and make everyone else believe in that religion. Gold: Gold was a very valuable thing. If you had a lot of gold, you were weathly which is a good thing. Glory: Every group of people who found new lands wanted to be seen by the royals. They would come in and make presentations to be sponsored by the royals. If they got sponsors the

Causes and consequences

This was based on the age of exploration. It just makes us recognize that our actions have an impact. Good or bad. Our main assignment on this was a padlet. It is a website that makes boards and you just put in your idea and it organizes it.

The story mountain ⛰️

So we had to write a story about a traveller that traded. Sounds pretty fun, doesn’t it. I added a bit of my imagination to it and then Ms Madsen had to get me to change a couple of things.  But that’s ok. Thennnn we had to make a video with AR Makr. I don’t like that app (I hope we don’t have to use it again). While we have the video going, we have to voice over and read the story. My story’s real long so if you’re wondering, that’s why it’s 3 minutes😉.

Ending

This is the end of my post. It was very last minute becasue I don’t want Showbie to close on me. See ya!

DI Reflection

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Welcome back to another post. This one is about our DI (Destination Imagination) presentation that we had to do. I’ll be telling you what went well, what we have to improve on and how I contributed to this project.

What went well:

If I was being honest, nothing went actually well. The proper were broken 30 minutes before preforming, not everyone memorized their lined (including me) because the script got changed a few nights before. This was also a problem for me because I need lots of time to get something memorized.

Improvement:

What our entire group can work on is communication 100%. I think most of the reason we were a mess is because not many people are good communicators and me too. Another thing we can work on is organization. If we want to do well, we need to be prepared. Being prepared is a part of organization and organization comes with communicating with people in the group. Personally, I cant text. I cant say what I want to in a few sentences. On the other hand, I looooove calling. I stay in calls for hours and it’s just so much easier to talk to someone and hear their voice. I think if we had communicated more we would lose a whole bunch of stress.

How I contributed:

I didn’t do a whole lot of the building. Im not really good with that stuff. There’s always one or two people who take over and do a lot of the project. We had that in our group. A couple of us learned how to use an electric saw, screwdrivers.

People in my group:

Julia, Robin, Evelyn, Ian and Sam

(Julia took all the photos with her iPad:)

Thanks for reading another one of my posts! Have a great rest of your day.

Science so far!

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Aghhhh so many posts this week! Today it’s for Science.

Driving question: How can we communicate our knowledge of atoms in a fun and creative way?

Observations:

Before we started anything important, we had to learn what atoms are and how they react to each other. We did this by talking (really hard to focus) but mostly mixing baking soda, water 💧, a weird liquid that couldn’t go down the sink (iodine), flour (aka mystery substance), corn starch, salt 🧂 and sugar. This was really fun because I looooove making potions. I used to do that growing up with almost anything that could mix together. We would also do activities that made you determine the mass of an object.

Video game:

After all that observing, we got to make a game!! The website was super sketchy. I’d rate it a 5/10 ⭐️. Stuff wouldn’t save and it kept on making me sign in (I dont know my password) but I had to work with it. I watched a tutorial  that guided me through the whole process. Without it id be no where. The lady was a little bit annoying but that’s fine. I made a game where you jump over an object that comes at you. The objects that I used were a snowflake ❄️ and fire 🔥.

Answering the driving question:

We can communicate our knowledge through a video game! How I did it was using a snowflake and fire. When the solid touches the heat, it turns into a liquid. Im glad Ms Kadi chose this because over all, it was a fun experience over all!

thanks for reading!

Working With Words- Blog Post

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Driving question: How might I wright poetry that shows who I am.

Welcome back. This is posted late because I totally forgot we were supposed to do this aaand I was away. So we had to write poems. Except it wasn’t really fun because it wasn’t about unicorns and rainbows, it was about our worldview. I know, boring. We had to write 7 poems:

Simile, found poem, self portrait poem, extended metaphor, sound, a few haikus, experience poem and an imagery poem.

Every poem was about something different. Were asked to make this post about a review on the project so I’ll give you one.

I think the hardest poem to write was the found poem. I seriously had no clue what to do.

In my opinion, no poem is easier than another. They’re all different in their own ways.

My favorite part of the project was writing the simile poem. I really used my creative side in that one😂.

To answer the driving question (look at the top), I think that if you are not sure of what your worldview is, this helped a lot. What also helped is asking my mom what worldview is “how you see the world”. When my mom told me that, everything clicked and everything in this project became so much easier. Going back to the driving question, how might I write poetry that shows who I am, I think it depends on the person who is reading it and how they take what I’m saying in.

Reflection

I think this project was a good thing because it helped me understand my worldview more then before. I think I am done talking about my worldview for a bit though. Thanks for reading my very short and rushed post! Have an amazing day✨

 

Radical Innovations or How It’s Going (aka The Winter Exhibition ❄️)

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Welcome back to another post! We had lots of projects and a big lead up to the winter exhibition. Stress, late nights, hard work and some tears (mine had nothing to do with the exhibition 😂). Continue reading to find out the details 😉.

The Renaissance Artwork

Like before, we had to chose a photo from a time and photoshop your face into it. To photoshop our faces into the photo we used an app called SuperimposeX. This was kinda the conclusion of another art chart we did. I think I could’ve put in more effort and made it better.

Renaissance Paragraph

A bit after the art chart (above) we had to write a paragraph. The thing is that we didn’t have a whole lot of time to do it. I dont think I would change anything. If I had to change something I’d probably put more thought into it. More thought can’t hurt👍.

Witches

One day when we got into class, we had to share a sentence about witches, witchcraft and witch hunts in the Middle Ages. My story is, I think I came to class on time that day. So I sat down, for Ms Willemse’s question of the day it was to read our witch hunt sentence. I didn’t know that we had to do it ahead of time! The day before in class we were reading a whole bunch of stuff about witch hunts and all that. I was probably zoned out and didn’t process it. So I scribbled some words down and hoped it was good enough. Here it is.

The 2023 Winter Exhibition ❄️

This year, im in grade 8 so it was our first winter exhibition. If you’re wondering what an exhibition is, it’s where all the students in PLP present what they have been working on to their family, friends and the public!! The PLP 8 got split up into 5 groups. We had to present 3 tableaus. In a tableau there are 3 pictures. The pictures could be of anything, it’s normally based on the same thing. Recently we’ve been doing assignments and reading about the medieval times, renaissance and contemporary (today). So we had to make a tableau on that. Except instead of photos and drawings, it was us!!! The teachers were talk in about how everyone is running around and it’s stressful. From my experience, it wasn’t stressful and not many people were running around (just the teachers). I wasn’t worried about it in the first place but if you have one coming up, it seriously isn’t worth all the stress. If you help and make sure YOU are happy and calm, it will go well.

                    .                      ⬆️King Joseph⬆️

Medieval Tableau👑⚔️

The first part of our tableau was medieval times. Our very first part of this is the planning. We planned with a drawing. We drew out who’s going to play each part. After the drawing was finished we could start getting our costumes together, props and a script if your the one talking and explaining in a scene. Another thing is that we had to include 7? or 5? aspects of worldview 😒; knowledge, economy, beliefs, values, time and geography. For knowledge we made the king/ King Joseph (aka me) a map because we rely on maps whenever we’re travelling. Back then they didn’t have google maps, I think google maps is better because if your coming back from somewhere and don’t want to get caught in traffic, just pull up google maps and you can see. For economy the I/ King Joseph was wearing “expensive” fabrics. King Joseph was holding a cross to represent beliefs. Obviously King Joseph represented values because the country relied in the king to make the decisions. For time we made a sundial. Lastly, geography we had a horse (Julia).

Renaissance Tableau✝️

Like the last, we still had to include 7 or 5 aspects of worldview. For geography we had the horse, we reused it from the medieval scene. For time we switched out the sundial for a clock. It was a new and exciting invention. King Joseph came back in because he is the bomb, but mostly to to show values (again) and what also showed values was the food wagon because you had to work for food and people valued it very much. The wagon was pulled by the horse. For belifes King Jospeh was still holding his cross BUT we also introduced the bible that was held by a Christian. The wagon also showed economy because wealthier people were able to believe in more things. And finally we showed a painter because painters had to have a very creative and know a lot about the land and knowledge in general.

Contemporary Tableau📱🗳️

As you probably know, contemporary is what we’re living in today. Again we had to use the 7 or 5 worldview things. Within out scene there is electronic voting booth. Inside the booth we have a computer. The computer is used to make your vote. As you probably already know, in Canada we use a ballot box to vote for our leader. Our design for the voting booth is meant to be one that can evolve in the future. It is displayed to show society because these days we have the opportunity to choose our leaders. In the Medieval and Renaissance times they didn’t have the opportunity to do so. The voting booth also shows values becasue back then women weren’t allowed to vote, it is a privilege today that everyone over the age of 18 has the right to vote. Back in the medieval and renaissance times, the government ran on monarchy. A monarch is a form of government that has a single person known as a monarch at its head. Nowadays we have a from of government called democracy, which allows the nation to vote for who they believe is the best leader.

The Snack

For the exhibition, we had to have a snack for the audience after they finish watching all our tableau’s. We were very lucky to have Julias mom make around 100 cookies!! They were SO good and looked like snowballs so I told the audience to take a snowball on the way out!

Conclusion

We hadn’t done very many big projects like this, so I will say that this was a very successful one. We had SO MANY assignments, readings, props, etc. that led up to an amazing exhibition.

Thanks for reading to the end of this post, its a long one😂😭💀.