Another day and another project finished. For this project we made a infographic on the European settlement with a partner. Now if you don’t know what an infographic is here is an example of one:
As you can see it uses concise paragraphs or sentences along with graphics to help explain or enhance the topic of the infographic. Over a couple of weeks we learnt about the European settlement and everyone involved, the French, the British and the First Nations. Are teachers gave us a choice on what part of the settlement we made the infographic, and we chose greed in the European settlement. My partner and I made informational mini paragraphs about each group to add to our infographic about the topic we chose. Then we made the graphics to go with the paragraphs that keep with the aesthetic of the infographic. After that we did some tweaking and revising until it looked like a professional infographic.This project was really fun and I’m really happy about how it looks, i hope you like it and learn something!
You can scan the QR code to get a different way of learning from our infographic.
What is the first thing that you think of when you think pirates? You probably think about the clothing they wear, the mysterious eye patch they always have or a parrot on their shoulder that wont stop talking. All these thing have a history behind them, and I’m going to be talk about that in this post.
To start right form the beginning, instances of piracy started around the 17th century BC. The pirates threatened trading routes and seized cargos of grain, olive oil, candles and even parts of the boat to repair their own ship. Pirates back then did actually say yarrr and arg, these were used for exclamation or responding yes. Other pirate phrases such as bucko (a friend or another pirate, same as a buccaneer ) and carouser ( a reckless or loud person who drinks excessively ) were also actually used by pirates. parrots and monkeys were also actually used by pirates for company and often entertainment on long trips for the pirates, it was also a mark of status, as those exotic animals were very expensive.
Some may not know but piracy still goes on to this day. There is a movie on a real story of acargo ship that gets Hijacked by Somalian pirates. The movie, Captain Philips, shows how terrible it is that piracy still happens, but there’s reasons why, it’s sometimes the only thing that people in places like Nigeria and Indonesia can do to make money. Piracy has made trading routes and even cruise routes unsafe, I think that this movie shows just how real it is and how it still happens to day.
If you want to know more about pirates and all the swashbuckling they did click here.
Upon Reading this posts title you might already know what destination imagination is, but to start off this post I’m going to explain what it is for the people who don’t. Destination imagination is a global educational nonprofit dedicated to inspiring the next generation of inventors, leaders and creative problem solvers. Here’s more about destination imagination!
Destination imagination, or DI, requires a lot of team work, communication, Confidence and critical thinking. For my first DI, I was given a project which consisted of questions I had to answer and complete with a team. In this DI tournament there were four projects that you could pick from to finish, these were next level technical, in theory scientific, built to last engineering and epic remix fine arts. With these my teachers gave everyone a chance to tell them which project they wanted to do. I picked engineering. I chose that topic because I new I would be building something for the project and thought it would be fun. Before we were told what group we were in, our teachers told us that DI would be fun but hard and stressful. And they were right.
When we started the project it was mostly just looking at the rules of DI and making plans for the project.We learned that the main part of our projected was that we had tomake a building that had to have a purpose and, in the end, be a physical model. We also had to have a story that relates to the building and film it (if you already know about DI, then you know that usually we would have to preform our story live, but because if COVID restrictions this is not allowed). We decided to make a community centre with postmodernism style architecture and renaissance style interior.
Here’s some pictures of our finished model!
Throughout the project we had to do instant challenges, which is basically like a challenge that you have to complete in a very limited time and then present it. Those were hard but fun.
Near the end of DI there was a little more stress to get everything finished but we got it all done and now its over. I probably wouldn’t do DI again, just my personal opinion, but sense this is PLP i probably am going to do it again. its got me wondering what going to happen next time but sense I’ve already done it once I will be more prepared the next time.
here is our finished video. It’s about old people in Oregon that hate all of the community centres there so they decided to make there own, but they run into a few generational problems along the way.
We also did a Q&A video about the project process.
