How does language inspire Adventure

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The Driving Question

The driving question for this project was “How Does Language Inspire Adventure?” This was the project that we went to Oregon! I had an amazing time on the trip but I did feel a little homesick and first but I will talk more about that later.

Quarry Rock

At the start of the project we hiked up to Quarry Rock so we could take pictures of the view. It was a really nice hike but it was REALLY hot! When we got to the top we had to talk some of the tourists up there and ask them why they decided to come up to Quarry Rock today. The people I asked went up there because they heard about it from family and friends and the other person I asked said that they had lived in the cove for years and decided to bring her mum up there because it was a nice hot sunny day. Our other task was to take a picture of the view and when we got back home to make an advertisement about it! Doing this was really fun because I really liked designing an ad. One thing that I struggled with was accepting feedback from my peers and teachers because I really liked my ad and I didn’t want to change it.

This was my first ad but I was told to change it because the text wasn’t good and it was very engaging.

 

This was my second ad and this was the good one, I changed the text and didn’t put as many words on it.

Oregon Adventure Book

When we went to Oregon we were instructed to make an “Oregon Adventure Book.” In it we had to follow the tasks that we were instructed to do each day and I did a really good job making sure I got all the tasks done each day when my friends didn’t. In the book we had tasks like getting a video of you trying a new food at the “Golden Corral” buffet. We also had to make drawings of places we had been and many more things.

The Spring Exhibition

So after going to Oregon and learning all about advertisement and adventure we made ads based on the pictures that we took in Oregon. I really enjoyed making ads I think that I took getting the feedback pretty well because we had to make many drafts of our ads and I did except feedback on it and changed my ad when I was given feedback based on it. For the Spring exhibition my group which was Griffin, Marcus, Cece, Madeline, and Julia.

The 3 Stations

For the exhibition we had 3 stations. The Tillamook Cheese Factory, Yaquina Head Tide pools, and Fort Stevens. Me and Cece ran the Tillamook Cheese Factory, Madeline and Julia ran the Yaquina Head Tide pools, and Marcus and Griffin ran the Fort Stevens station. As part of our interactive element in our “cheese factory” we made a cow milking station. In this station we had a wooden frame that we hung a rubber glove filled with water on. We also made a diagram of how cheese is made which we made out of clay. Me and Cece wore aprons, masks and hair nets as our costumes because that is what the people working in the factory wore.

My Oregon Ad

I did many drafts on my Oregon ad until I had made the right one and I used multiple different photos for it. This is my first ad that I made but I was told that there was too much white space.

I really liked this photo and was kinda sad when I was told I couldn’t use it. My second ad I was told to not use the photo and change the text because we already had a photo of the light house.

Finally after a couple more try’s that I’m not gonna show because I actually made 3 more before I found the right one I made the perfect ad and I am very proud of it!

This is my Oregon and I hope you like it!

So How Does Language Inspire Adventure?

Language can inspire adventure in any ways, it can inspire you when you look up at s sign and see an advertisement for the outdoors and its just the way that it is written and what the sign is telling you. It’s the way the words connect to you. If you learn a language it can inspire you to go to that country to speak it because you have leant a new skill and it motivates you to go somewhere you may have never been before. 

Conclusion

In conclusion I think that I did a good job in this project and I really enjoyed going to Oregon and presenting our ads at the spring exhibition! One thing that I can work on is not being so nervous when I’m presenting or showing my work to my classmates and peers. I hope that I can take what I have learnt this year and bring it into grade 9 so I can be even better for next year! I can’t believe this year is over! It went by so fast (and I’m not just saying that for the blog post!)

Thank you so much for reading my last post of the school year! See you next year!

My first tPOL!

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What an exciting year it’s been! Staring high school going into PLP! I’ve had a really good year and I’m glad that I made the decision to go into PLP because I have really enjoyed it and I am excited to be going into it next year! I hope you enjoy reading about my first year in high school!

Here is a link to my mPOL!

Introduction

Hello!

Thank you for coming to my presentation of learning. I am the expert on 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 growth. Thank you in advance for listening and for offering feedback that I can use to improve as a learner.

My 3 main focuses

In agency I have chosen to talk about “Accepting Feedback”

In Preparation I am talking about “Outside of School”

In Communication and collaboration I am talking about “Working with peers”

Humanities

One project that was really transitional for me was “How Does Language Inspire Adventure”

This is the project when we went  to Oregon! Oregon was our first trip in PLP 8 and my first time away from home for a week! I had a lot of fun on this trip but it was also a big change for me! I was really nervous to go to Oregon because I had never been away from home for that long. Something I hope will improve is my confidence of going on trips like this and in the future I hope I wont be as nervous. In this project we learnt all about advertisement and adventure. At the start of this project we went on a hike up to quarry rock and took pictures of the view so we could come back and make advertisements for it. I was good at get my work done at home and I made sure that it wasn’t late when I hand it in. I was really proud of my ad and I also really liked making ads because it was super fun to design posters for different places. One thing that I can work on is accepting feedback from my peers and teachers because I had a hard time when people were telling what I could change on my ad and I refused because I really liked my ad.

When we went to Oregon we had to make an adventure book all about the trip. This book had tasks that we had to do everyday. I was very good at getting it done and I put aside time for me to do it each day. I am very happy that I did that because then I didn’t have to have a lot of work to do at the end of the trip. Some of the pages in this book were fun to do but others I found hard to do because I didn’t want to do them. Going into grade 9 humanities I want to be more confident in the work I produce because I am never confident that my work is good enough or that my work is right so I don’t like to show people and I get very anxious and stressed. I also need to work on handing my work in when I finish it because I always wait until the last minute because I get scared that my work is wrong. I really enjoyed this project and I think that it was really transitional in my learning!

Worldview

Going to Oregon really changed my worldview because as I have mentioned I had never been away without my family for that long so it was a big change to me. I certainly missed my family but it has opened me up to new opportunities because now I know that I am able to go in trips for that long and not feel too homesick. Although this was a big change and I wasn’t sure what it would do to my life I think that it was a good change. I don’t regret going on the trip and that’s saying something because I definitely had my doubts!

 

Maker

A project in maker that I found transitional was doing “Destination Imagination.” That project was hard and it also meant that I had to work with people that were in my class but I didn’t know well. We were given the hardest challenge which is the technical challenge and for that challenge we were meant to make a life size pinball machine. Making a life size pinball machine was hard and we didn’t really know what we were doing. Our original plan was to make a pinball machine that sat on the floor not raised off the ground or anything. It didn’t work. When we got to the competition it didn’t work one bit and our story was way too short. I was embarrassed and angry that our pinball machine looked like a piece of trash compared to the other teams. One team even had a real tv!

If you want to check out my post on our first DI competition click here!

The build up to our second competition was way better, we made a pin ball machine out of wood that had legs and everything! It worked perfectly until we had to bring it into the gym space where we were presenting and then it all broke and it didn’t work. That was also really frustrating and I learnt that we need to make the machine more lighter and put more nails and screws in it so it wouldn’t fall apart. We did a good job preparing everything and getting it ready for the competition and we weren’t rushing to finish in the end, we used our time wisely. I did a good job working with my teammates and I definitely got closer to them all. We all worked well together and we didn’t have any big disagreements or anything. We accepted feedback well like we knew what we had to do after the first competition we were not allowed to be given any ideas but people just said that our first idea wasn’t working so my team knew that we had to change it. Going into grade 9 maker and doing DI again I think that we need to think out our plan more and build our machines stronger in the first competition and not make another bad machine out of cardboard. I don’t know what category I will be in or whom I will be with but I think we need to apply those factors to the first competition and make it more simple and not very heavy so its not easy to break and we need to make it lighter so it can be broken into small parts.

Links to my team mates blog:

Cece

Milaina

Oliver

Griffin

Science

One project that was transitional for me what our “Small But Mighty” project. In this project we leant all about the immune system that changed things for me because I now see everything differently. I know that when I get a cut that my white blood cells, t-cells, B-cells, and macrophage are fighting to keep me from getting sick by the pathogens. We made a field journal where we grew bacteria in little Petri dishes. This was fun but also really gross because the bacteria was all lumpy and orange and it spelt really bad!

We made immune character cards where we made little Pokémon card type things that had facts about the cells in the immune system. This was really fun because I loved making these cards and you got to choose what the theme was and I chose Mickey Mouse.

The last thing that we did in this project was make media posts (we didn’t actually post them on social media) based on the covid-19 vaccine. These posts were about the why people thought you shouldn’t get vaccinated like people thought that you would get heart attacks, blood clot or things like the government planting microchip in you. We had to make a media campaign that explains why that wouldn’t work.

 

 

 

 

 

I did well accepting feedback for my field journal because when the teacher or my peers said that I needed to change something I did well doing that and making my work better. Going into grade 9 I can work on making sure that I am being confident in my work when I go up and present and speak in a loud clear voice and not get scared when people ask questions about my work. I need to be proud of the work I produce.

Spring Exhibition

This year for our Spring Exhibition we made ads about Oregon that we were to present to the public. I think that my group did a really good job. I had 6 people in my group and we all did an amazing job to bring our trip to Oregon to life! We had 3 stations and in each station 2 people were there to run it. In the station I was in we talked about the Tillamook Cheese Factory. Me and Cece who was the person I was running the Tillamook Cheese station made a diagram of how cheese is made we also had a cow milking station where you can see what its like to milk a cow. I think that I did a really good job making sure that I was prepared beforehand for the exhibition, I made sure that everything was ready to bring and that I had everything printed and ready to go. I think that I worked well with my group we had a couple of disagreements that I think we could work on in the future, we need to be able to talk it out and not get upset with things. I did well accepting feedback but I think that I could work on accepting feedback from my peers more. Going into grade 9 I think for the next spring exhibition I need to be able to agree with my group more and make sure that we can work our problems out without getting annoyed with each other.

Conclusion

I think that this first year in high school wad a success! I have had a great year and I have had lots of fun in my first year in PLP I really enjoyed doing all the projects and working with my peers. I have done a good job working with my classmates in each project, sometimes I have been a little upset that I was not with any of my friends but in the end I did not feel that anymore because I was happy with my group and what we had done. I think I have done well to accept feedback because at the start of the year when I got feedback or a revision sign I just felt like I wanted to give up and stop but I kept going and now when I get a revision sigh I don’t give up and I make the necessary changes to make my work better. I am really good at making sure my work is done and ready ahead of time and making sure that I don’t leave it until late and then I am rushing to get it done. I used to do that at the start of the year but now I always do my homework and get everything prepared as soon as I get home so I am not rushing to do it later or so I don’t forget something and then that messes up my work. Going into grade 9 I want to be able to feel more confident in my work and this counts for all classes because I am always embarrassed to show my work to my teachers and peers and I don’t like to hand it in on Showbie because I get scared that my work isn’t good enough. Those are somethings I think I can work on going into grade 9 and I hope that I will be able to achieve the goals I have set for myself!

Thank you for listening to my “Transitional Presentation Of Learning!” I hope you enjoyed it and have a great summer!😁🏖️

Small But Mighty

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The Driving Question

The driving question for our project is “How does our knowledge of cell biology contribute to public health?” This project was all about cells and vaccine, we leant about how different types of cells help our body fight off diseases and viruses.

Cells

Before we started the project fully we had to learn all about the adaptive immune system. We learn all about the cells in the adaptive immune system and it was fun! I had fun learning about how the cells in our body help us fight off sickness and disease.

Field Journal

As the first main part of this project we made a field journal, in the field journal we were to pick 2 or more surfaces that we would swab and put them in a Petri dish and watch the bacteria grow. We would record the data and write it down in our field journals. The 2 surfaces I chose were a desk and a pencil. We had to make a hypothesis and if you don’t know then a hypothesis is an educates guess. I hypothesized that the table would be dirtier than the pencil because more people touch it each day. My hypothesis was correct! The table had more bacteria than the pencil all though it was pretty close!

Immune Character Cards

After we had done our field journal we learnt all about immune cells. The cells we learnt about are called Pathogens, B-cells, T-cells, White blood cells, and Macrophages. We had to choose a theme for our immune character cards so we could draw the characters on the cards, and I chose Mickey Mouse! I had a lot of fun drawing and making these cards because it was just really cool drawing and designing them! Before we could start we had to learn about all the cells and write them out in a sheet we were given.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Vaccine Media Campaign

As our last part of the project we learnt about vaccines and why some people were anti-vaxxers. Some of the reason were: blood clot, autism, micro chips, it was to rushed and much more. We were asked to make a media campaign about some of the reason people didn’t want to vaccinate, we were allowed to have a partner and my partner was Julia. It was fun making the campaigns because we got to use Canva and I love using Canva! We had to make three media campaigns and the main focus that we decided on was “The Government Planting Microchips In You.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Conclusion

In conclusion I had a lot of fun during this project! The bacteria was kinda gross and it smelt really bad but it was still cool to see how it grows. My favourite part of this project was making the media campaign, I liked doing this because it was fun to design a media post about the covid vaccine. I think that I did a good job in this project because I was eager and I finished all my work on time and put lots of effort into everything that I did. I had a great time doing this project and I hope you enjoyed reading all about it!

What were the consequences of colonization?🦫🇨🇦

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Driving Question

Like every other project we have done we had a driving question. The driving question for this project was “What Were/Are The Consequences Of Colonization?” We learnt all about what the indigenous peoples went through during colonization.

Craft

One of the first things we did was learn how to use a note taking app called craft. Craft is very useful and is very god when you want to keep things organized. I really like craft and I think that once I got used to it I was using it all the time, not just in humanities! I would definitely recommend this app!

New France

New France is what we now call Canada. Samuel de Champlain started New France when he came sailing over to Canada with his men. Champlain started to trade with the indigenous. New France was the first fortified country in North America, but they had conflict with the indigenous. Back in France they had started to run out of resources so New France was the perfect solution for them because it was rich with resources. One thing New France needed to be successful was woman because they needed to populate.

Keynote presentation

After a while we were introduced to the final part of the project, an 11-14 slide keynote presentation about the consequences of colonization. We were allowed to have partners for this project and I was put in a group with my friends.

Madeline

Emilia

I really work well with them and I think that we did a great job on out keynote presentation. As part of the presentation we had to think of 2-3 main focuses that we were going to base our keynote presentation. The two things we chose to focus on were: Indigenous resources and Architecture. We were really interested in these two subjects and I really enjoyed learning about them! For the keynote presentation we had to present it to the grade 11’s because they were learning about colonization and we were meant to teach them more about it. We decided to put a quiz in our keynote that has questions about our presentation, we used kahoot to do this. It was a fun little quiz!

Indigenous Resources

Indigenous resources consisted of fish, plants and animals, some of things they used to hunt were: Snares, bow and arrows, and spears. The indigenous people were nomadic meaning that they followed their prey, they moved around depending on where their prey migrated to during the seasons. The indigenous’s diet depended on where they lived. When colonization happened the indigenous were left with little resources because Champlain came and took it all. They slowly started to rely on the Europeans for food as they couldn’t get it themselves.

Indigenous Architecture

The indigenous peoples lived in little birch huts called wigwams but the haudenoshaunee lived in long houses but when they followed their prey they used teepees because they were easy to dissemble and reassemble. Long houses, plank houses, and pit houses were some of the permanent houses the haudenoshaunee lived in. As colonization happened they were slowly placed away from their traditional homes and lost their culture.

Individual Keynote

After we had presented our final keynote we were meant to make our own keynote on our own that answers the driving question. The presentation was only allowed to be two slides long and it was only allowed to have 3 words per slide. We were supposed to so this so we could show that individually we knew the answer to the driving question. I already had the answer to the driving question so this presentation wasn’t that hard for me.

Answer to the Driving Question

So what were the consequences of colonization?

The consequences of colonization resulted in indigenous peoples losing their traditional homes and culture as well as having their land taken away by Champlain. Indigenous land were stripped bare of its resources by the Europeans so the indigenous were left with nothing. The indigenous now don’t have as much land as they used to, in fact they don’t have anything close to it. They had their life ways stolen and many indigenous were killed in war with Champlain that they didn’t want to go into.

That is my answer to the driving question.

Conclusion

In conclusion I think that my group did a good job with our presentation. We really worked hard to make a good presentation and put time in making a kahoot. I feel like we put a lot of information in there and we all did a good job working together and being a good team. This was a good project and I am proud of what we made, I am happy that we learnt about this even know it is sad but now I know ways I can help the Indigenous get their culture and land back in the future.

My First Ever mPOL!

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I hope you enjoy listening to my presentation of learning and that you enjoy hearing all about my PLP journey so far!

Introduction

Hello!

Thank you for coming to my presentation of learning. I am the expert on 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 growth. Thank you in advance for listening and for offering feedback that I can use to improve as a learner.

Humanities

Our first project in Humanities was Called “Its the end of the world as we know it” when I was first introduced to the project I felt like I wanted to throw up because I thought I was going to have to make a song and then sing it in front of everyone by myself! Luckily we did it in groups but it was still scary! We had to read a book called the outsiders. It wasn’t a bad book I kind of  even liked it! We learnt a lot about worldview and that helped me with my future projects as well! Another project we did in humanities was the “Winter Exhibition” this project was very stressful and it was my very first time doing one, I was very nervous about it! I really enjoyed working with my group and creating all the props for the presentation at the end. I really feel like that Julia and I did a good job making sure our group knew what they were doing and making sure that everything got done on time.

Click here to see my Winter Exhibition blog post!

What I did well and what I didn’t

Writing the song and singing our song really helped me build up my confidence with other people and it gave me courage to speak in front of the class and I took that confidence to my other classes as well. I really think that this project helped me talk to other people who I didn’t know and it made me able to talk to other people in my class and I made new friends by doing so!

One thing that I didn’t do very well was finding time to do the homework. At the start of the year I was always leaving my homework until late and then I would have to rush to at the end, so that wasn’t something that I was doing well. I was also not good at working with people I didn’t know so that project really got me talking and working with other people.

This is our music video!➡️

Maker

Maker has been my favourite class so far this year, I have learnt so much like how to write blog posts and how to use apps like “Sketches Pro”and“Keynote!” One of my favourite things that we did was designing our Nike shoe. I really liked designing it because it was really cool to be able to design a shoe! We did a project called “Blog like a boss” where we had to learn how to make and write blog posts. At first I was very nervous and I didn’t at all want to post my work to my blog where everyone in the world could access it. I would stress at night whenever I had to post something. We also had to make a YouTube channel for our videos we made during school. I did not like posting stuff there because I found it stressful and kind of confusing.

My Memoji!

Something that I as a PLP leaner did was make a Memoji of themselves. The Memoji we used is the person sitting at the computer👩‍💻. But on the front of the laptop we have to add stickers that represent us! I really enjoyed this but I felt like I kept trying to make it perfect as I re-did it many times over! It was one of my favourite things we did in this project and I really enjoyed making it!

What I did well and what I didn’t

One thing that I did well was writing long blog post with lots of detail so you could really understand what I was talking about. I also did a really good job at doing all the work and handing it in on time so it wasn’t late.

Something I didn’t so very well and something I have improved on is not being scared with posting my blog post. I was terrified and that meant that I posted my post at the last minute and I would stress about it the whole time. It took me a while to get used to posting things on my blog but by now I’m very used to it. I still need to work on not getting nervous when posting my things on YouTube because I don’t like everyone being able to see videos I have made.

Science

I have really enjoyed science this semester! I have had a lot of fun learning about atoms and I especially had fun making my video game! Because that is what we had to do in this project, make a video game! For my video game I made a trivia game, before this we were learning all about atoms and how they were discovered and who discovered  them. I really enjoyed making my video game on scratch and learning how to use it, I did watch multiple videos on how I should do it and how I can make it work but I got there in the end and it worked! I made many different games while I decided which one I was going to use for my final product. I am proud of my trivia game because unlike all my other ones I made this one I didn’t watch any videos on how to do it, I figured it out by myself! It took an along time but eventually I got it right and it was finally playable! I was very happy with my final product and I hope that you like it too!

This is my video game! Sorry you can’t actually play it, it wasn’t working so no one can play it but please enjoy the video!

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What I did well and what I didn’t

I think that in this project I had a very good understanding of things. I feel like I did a very good job at putting my knowledge and understanding of atoms into my video game(s) and I was very good at making the game and figuring out how to code on scratch. I think that now I have made a video game I will be able to make more! I really enjoyed using scratch and I think that is what I did well, I was very enthusiastic about using scratch so that meant I really put in the effort and made sure my video game was the best it can be.

One thing that I didn’t do very was taking to long to decide which of my video games I was going to use. In the future I need to think of a solid plan and maybe try not to think of a crazy game that would be to hard to make (thats what I did at the start.🤭) Next time I will make it better and now I that I know what I need to do I can improve on this for future projects and not just in science.

My Learning Plan

Before the start of winter break we were asked to make a learning plan which is basically things that you can grow on things that you are good at and things that you can get support in. One thing that I said I could grow on is not leaving my homework until the last minute and I think that now I have definitely improved on it because I always do my homework strait away when I get home or instead of leaving my homework to Sunday at night I do it on Saturday so I can get it out of the way. Another thing I said I can improve and grow on is not getting distracted by other things going on in class. I don’t want to be distracted by my friends when they are talking I need to do my work without all the distractions. I think that I have definitely improved on that as I now don’t listen to any distractions so I can get my work done and not have homework over the weekend or after school. I think that I have done a good job with improving all the things I put in the growth section of my learning plan and I am proud of myself for what I have accomplished.

Thank you!

Thank you so much for reading my mPOL and I hope you enjoyed listening to my PLP journey so far! I hope you will read all about by next mPOL (whenever that is!) I spent a lot of time on this so I hope that you didn’t find it boring and quit reading half way through!😂

Thank you!

The Age of Exploration!

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The Driving Question

“How can we use storytelling to investigate what sparked global exploration and understand its impact?” Our latest humanities project was about the age of exploration. We learned about trade between countries as well as the fur trade between the Europeans and Indigenous.

The Age of Exploration

So what is the age of exploration? Let me explain…The age of exploration is a time where people from different nations discovered that they could trade with different countries around the world. A good thing about it is that people then discovered new technology like the Sextant, Cross staff, compass, astrolabe and a ship called the caravel. A consequence of that was that the Europeans created the fur trade where they would go to the indigenous lands and trade things like blankets, knives, and spices in exchange for beaver skins that they would use to make hats. This meant that the beaver population started to die off and there weren’t many beavers left in the wild. Luckily people started to set up beaver reserves and slowly the beaver populations started to grow again.

The Cause and Consequences of Exploration

we learned about things that were good about exploration and things that were bad and that didn’t work out like how even though they were getting gold and silver so they could sell it to other countries to make money, it started to drain the land of all those resources until there wasn’t much left. We had to make our boards on a website called padlet.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Story Mountain

After reading and learning about the age of exploration we had to make up a story based off of what we had learnt. We had to write about a cause and a consequence of exploration, that is why we made the padlet. We had to make a story mountain about our story’s and we had to separate it into sections like the “Climax and the Rising Action.” I wrote about the diseases that spread as a consequence and about how trading with other nations was the cause. I wrote about a girl named Lily who really wants to sail around the world and trade with other countries and nations, but everyone tells her she can’t because she’s a girl.

 

 

 

 

 

 

My Story

This story is kind of long so you don’t have to read it if you don’t want to but here it is:

There once was a girl named Lily she always wanted to go on voyages but girls weren’t allowed to everyone said that they had to stay home and cool and look after their husbands.

She would stare longingly at the waves looking at the glistening waves in the sunshine. Lily was very sad because she wasn’t allowed to trade so she spent day after day looking out at sea waiting for her adventure to start. 

She had always wanted to travel, she knew it was in her blood because her father was a famous European explorer who went on many voyages a year. He always brought things back for Lily from his voyages but Lily knew it wasn’t the same. She would tell people all around town about her ideas for new technology and new ships, but no one would listen to her and when they did they would give her all the reasons why she couldn’t do it.

Lily loved to talk about traveling and she loved to talk to people about her fathers voyages and how she would always want to explore with him and go with him to trade with the indigenous peoples. She would always ask her father about his voyages when he wasn’t busy and Lily always said she could taste the salt water on her tongue. The idea of going on a ship and exploring the world gives Lily shivers in her spine and not in a bad way but in a good way. 

One day Lily heard that her father was traveling to the indigenous land to trade with the indigenous peoples and so Lily snuck onto the ship and disguised as one of the curfew members. Lily knew that woman weren’t allowed to travel so she dressed up as a man so her father and his crew wouldn’t know. Lily had many ideas for new technology that could help explorers navigate their way around the ocean and she kept it all in her sketchbook. She had never shown any body her ideas and she had always wanted to show her father but she couldn’t, not yet, but she would one day.

One day Lily was working on the ship deck and she saw land! She shouted for her father to come and see and she didn’t realize how close she was to the side of the ship and she fell right in and her disguise came off and everyone realized that it was her. Her father was very mad but they had reached land and then her father was distracted by all the trading. Lily had a great time trading with all the indigenous and she traded them blankets for beaver skins.

After a couple days the indigenous started to come down with a strange disease and then many of them started to die. The indigenous started to blame the Europeans for spreading the disease through their blankets. Lily was very scared and she didn’t want to leave because she had had such a great time trading and she had made many new friends. 

Although Lily had one of the most greatest time of her life she felt guilty that the indigenous had all started to die and she blamed it all on herself. Her father told her not to worry and then she realized the time was right and she showed him all her ideas for new technology that could help explorers navigate their way around the ocean. Her father told her it was a great idea and he told all of Europe and the rest of the world and they started to create all her ideas. Lily realized that her dream had finally come through and everyone had started to respect her and let her explore the world and Lily became one of the most famous European explorers in the world.

AR MAKR

AR MAKR is an app we used to film our story’s. In this app you can film things like a normal camera but you don’t have to place real life objects on the ground on front of the camera like on the normal filing apps. In this app you can take photos from your library and place them on the ground. It will look like you are placing a real life object on the ground from the screen, but from the outside it looks like your filming the ground so it can look kind of funny!😂

Pirate Packs!

Because we were studying the age of exploration we got to have pirate packs from Whitespot on the second last day of school before the break! It was lots of fun and we played Kahoots on Pirates and Vikings. We also had a competition on who could assemble their pirate pack the quickest! I had lots of fun and I won the grand prize in the end, a massive chocolate coin!

Conclusion

I had a lot of fun in this project and I learnt so much about the age of exploration that I know I am going to remember for the rest of my life. I liked working with AR MAKR even if it was a little frustrating at times I still had fun learning about it and working with it. I am sure that I will use this app for many years to come and I can’t wait to make even more story’s with it! This has been one of my most favourites projects yet! I really enjoyed doing it and I even enjoyed the homework!😁

It’s Only The Start!

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Destination Imagination!

After months of working on our pinball machine my team (Griffin, Milaina, Oliver, Cece and Maggie) finally were ready (not really😬) for the DI Regionals Tournament! I bet you’re wondering what Destination Imagination actually IS, well Destination Imagination or DI where schools or just people at home compete in different challenges to win. I was part of the technical team and our challenge was to make a pinball machine! Our pinball machine was 16 feet long and controlled by my teammate Oliver. Our team name is called “The Oversleepers” and we came 3rd! We have qualified for the regionals tournament which we will be showing our pinball machine again, but we will be able to make whatever changes we want to our pinball machine and script. I have done DI before when I was in grade 4 and we won! We won the instant challenge and the actual challenge and so I had some experience going into the competition.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our Challenge

Our challenge was to make a life size pinball machine that a size 3 soccer ball can go through. We were given a 16 feet by 8 feet playing field for our pinball machine to be displayed in. We had to create a story to go with it and ours was based off Alice in Wonderland.

 

Preparation

Prior to the competition we worked very hard for several weeks creating and building the pinball machine. We worked very hard and built things in Cece’s dad’s workshop and at school. We all decided what characters we were going to be, I was the Queen of Hearts, Oliver was Tweedle Dum, Griffin was Tweedle Dee, Milaina was The Mad Hatter, and Cece was Alice. We worked hard creating and rehearsing our script until we had it memorized fully.

The Competition

On the day of the tournament we had to be at school at 8:30. Our presentation was the first one out all the groups not just ours so it was very nerve wracking being the first group to go! It was pretty good we just need to get more materials to make it better. The presentation had to be 8 minutes and in that time we had to set up our pinball machine and present our whole script.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Forms

Like anything in life we had to fill out a bunch of forms that asked questions about our machine and what we would be showing. Since we were in the technical challenge we had the most forms to fill out (actually engineering had the same amount🤭.) I was in charge of writing all the main information down, but there were also other forms like the expense report and more.  There were 3 pages in the main forms but each one had many questions to fill out.

Rose🌹, Bud🌷, and Thorns🥀

ROSE= Things we did well on

I think that my group did a really good job at communicating and working together. We also did really well on going first because it’s not easy because we had to set the bar and that was really scary! Our team did a good job not giving up even when a round of our pinball machine didn’t work we kept going and didn’t let it crush our courage.

BUD= Things we can improve on

Somethings we can improve on is getting together to work on our pinball machine more often. Everyone is very busy all the time but I feel that we need to skip somethings so we can get together more often and I think that could of made our pinball machine better.

 

THORN= Things we didn’t do well and things we can do better

I think we can defiantly do better at making our pinball machine out of wood and not just making half of it out of cardboard. Cardboard is very flimsy so it didn’t really work for our pinball machine so we defiantly need to make it out of wood next time.

I hope we can learn from our mistakes and do better next time but I am proud of what we did do well and we need to bring that confidence to the next competition!

The instant Challenge

I can’t actually say anything about the Instant challenge until June because it is top secret!🤫 When this is all over in June I will be able to share so make sure you’re checking my blog for my next post about our DI update!

Conclusion

I have learned so much from DI and I am very happy at what we have achieved and I hope that we will do even better in the provincials and I hope that I can continue working with my group over spring break so we can make our pinball machine even better than before! Even though the first competition was very stressful I really enjoyed it and I am really excited for provincials and I hope that we can do our best! 😁

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wish us luck in Provincials!🥳

Having fun with Atoms!

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Our First Science Project!

For our first science project we learned about Atoms! We did many worksheets such as “States of Matter” and “Split Screen Protocol” where we learned about when people discovered the atom and how people discovered what it looked like.

Black box

We did an activity called “the black box” in this activity we were given a small container that was covered with black tape so we couldn’t see inside, we were also not allowed to open the lid. We were given a bunch of materials and then we had to recreate what we thought was in the black box by using are senses to guess what was inside.

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

As we went further into learning about atoms our first project was introduced…We had to make a video game!!!😁 This sounded super cool to me and I had lots of ideas for my video game! We had to make our video games about what we had learnt about the atom. The website we used to make our video game is called scratch. Scratch is a website where you can make games and it’s all about coding! When I first opened it I had no idea what to do but now that I have made a game (I made multiple because I couldn’t decide on what to do!) I now know so many things that can help me in the future. I made a trivia game that makes you answer questions on the atom! To check it out click here

Conclusion

Overall I think I did a good job on this project, I really liked how we had to make a video game to showcase our knowledge it made the project so much more fun! I now know many things about atoms and I know how to determine the volume of things and I am now very good at using my senses to determine what is inside objects. I really enjoyed this project and I hope that we can do something like this again!

Poetry’s Not Easy!

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Our last project of the semester!

The topic for our last project of the semester was….Poems! To be honest I didn’t really wanna do a project on poems because I’m kinda bad at it.😅 I actually really enjoyed this project though as we started writing all our poems.

The Driving Question

Our driving question for this project was “How might I write Poetry that I Enjoy and shows who I am?” We wrote all types of poetry and throughout each one I think I displayed who I am in my poetry. I could just be myself when I was writing and just write about who I was, write about me. I enjoyed writing poetry about my life but sometimes it’s hard putting what you feel out into the world.

So what Poems DID you write?

we wrote all types of poems and learnt about all types of Poetry terms to put into out poems.

Here are the poems we wrote:

– Simile Poem

– Extended Metaphor Poem

– Sound Poem

– Haikus

– Found Poem (My least favourite)

– Experience Poem

– Imagery Poem

– Self-Portrait Poem

Our Ebooks

As our last final part of the project and the biggest things we had to do was make an Ebook. We had to make the Ebook on an app called Book Creator. We had to add all the poems we had made into it and design it. We had to publish our Poetry books onto their website so people can read it.

Here is my book:

Reflection:

After all the poems we had to write I think I got better at writing them!😁 I enjoyed writing all those poems and being able to express myself through them. I think that this was a fun project and I am proud of all the poems I wrote and I didn’t know there were so many types of poems and that’s not even all of them! The funniest one was the sound poem because we could just write a bunch of random words that described the sound of our worldview. I hope that I take all the poetry information into life because who knows? Maybe one day I’ll become a poet and people all around the world will get to read my poems!

Radical Innovations or How its Going

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The Winter Exhibition!

I am in grade 8 so I had my first Exhibition recently! For this year us grade 8’s had to make a tableau. I had lots of fun at the exhibition, although it was kinda stressful and tiring I am still happy I got the chance to do it. I had six members in my group (Julia, Sven, Samuel, Carmyn, Sawyer) and we all worked together to make our scenes. We had to make a triptych with three photos of our groups tableau. We made the triptych on an app called SuperimposeX.

What is a Triptych?

a triptych is a peace of art that is often displayed in churches. Is set on an alter and has three pieces of art on display. Even though the art is different in each frame the landscape in the back is often continued throughout the art. Here is our groups triptych:

Medieval

We had to have these elements: Geography, time, society, values, beliefs, economy, and knowledge. For Geography we did a horse, because people used to travel on horses to discover new pieces of land and to just travel to other places. For time we made a sundial which is behind us in the photo. People in the medieval times used to use sundials to tell the time.

 

For society we did the king because he was a big part in the society. For values we did a leader because they were valued in their kingdoms. People also followed their kings and leaders into battles. For beliefs we did a cross because the king was Christian and so was his people. For economy we did expensive fabrics which the king was wearing because he was the leader. And finally for knowledge we did a map because a map held knowledge of the land and told people where to go.

Renaissance

For the Renaissance scene we had to do the same elements: Geography, time, society, values, beliefs, economy, and knowledge. For Geography we did a horse because they were used for traveling long distances. For time we did a clock because it was the only way to tell the time back then. For society we did the king because he was the leader and the society respected him as their leader. For values we did food which is the wagon because people valued their food much more back then. For beliefs we made a bible and the person is reading the bible in the back. For economy we did the wagon because it shows how merchants would transport their food and sell it to people. And lastly we showcased knowledge with the painter because being a painter means you have to be knowledgeable.

Contemporary

 

 

 

 

 

 

For Contemporary we used the same elements as the last two scenes. Geography, time, society, values, beliefs, economy, and knowledge. For geography we did the food truck because people use wagons as transport but they were also used as a wagon for food. For time we made a clock, we used the same clock as the Renaissance scene and because we now have advanced clocks. For society we did the voting box because people in the society have the right to vote over 18. For values we did technology because now everyone now values their tech more than anything else. For beliefs we did even though you can’t see it everyone is welcome from all religions. For economy we did me ordering food on a  phone because people nowadays use there phones way more and don’t communicate with other people as much.

Our snack

For the exhibition we had to make a snack that we shared with the audience who came to watch. We made cookies that we called “snowball cookies.” They we’re really good!

Renaissance artwork

Just like in our past project we had to make a piece of art displaying our face! We did I the same thing in our medieval part of the project but this time we did renaissance. We had to make an artwork choice chart again like we did last time and find photos that represent the questions.

 

 

 

 

 

Renaissance art paragraph

What can we learn from the past and how does it matter to us today? 

The past matters to us today because by using it to understand our worldview we further see we have more rights and freedom. 

Knowledge- Since they created the printing press we now have printer that can print as many copy’s of a book as they want. I can now read lots of books because we have printers and they have greatly benefited our lives because we can have books on education that is taught in schools. If the printing press hadn’t been invented we wouldn’t have all the knowledge we have today and we wouldn’t be able to read all these great books that we have today because of the printing press. We now have all this freedom and are able to write books so they can be printed and published. We have all these opportunities now because of the printing press.

Time- Time in the Renaissance was very similar to what we have now. They had devolved a clock that looks very much like the ones we have now. If the Medieval times hadn’t created the sundial then the Renaissance wouldn’t have created the clocks and we wouldn’t have made the, better so they can be what we have now. I wouldn’t know what time it is and what time to go to school or my activities. I am grateful that people have created the clocks because it has been a great use in my everyday life. We have freedom now because we know what time it is and when we can be free to go hang out with your friends at the mall and things.

Society- The society in the Renaissance was ruled by three Country’s. England, France, and Spain. They had a great leader in England who was known as King Henry the VIII. He was a great but brutal leader of England having killed many of his wives and being rude and being terrible to them. We woman now have much more freedom and are not abused by men and have our own rights so we can vote and speak in our society’s. The society from the renaissance was much different from now. The woman didn’t have rights and we ruled with other country’s by our sides which was good in a good way.

In conclusion we have way more rights and freedom and have advanced in many ways from the past. We have many things now that people were not so fortunate to have back then. I am so grateful for our lives today and have been greatly benefited with all that has happened from the past. 

Conclusion

in conclusion I think that this project was pretty fun! I liked to learn about the Renaissance and Medieval times! I think that me and my group did a great job for our first exhibition and I am proud of the work that we have accomplished. I am excited for us to have our next exhibition and to hopefully improve because of what I have learned this time.😁