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Every object: New France!

For the past few weeks we have been working on a project called Every Object Tells a Story. This project has been all about life in New France and artifacts! The driving question for this project was: How can artifacts teach us about settlement, peoples, and life in New France? Competencies: The first competency I…

2020 TPOL

This my first TPOL blog post for the transition from grade 8 to grade 9. This post all leads up to 1 driving question: Why do you feel you are ready to advance to the next grade level? But I’ll answer that question at the end. For now, I want to talk about this past…

Argh Matey!!!

For the past few weeks we have been working on a mixed humanities and scimatics project called argh matey. This project has been all about historical significance and cells and diseases. The driving questions were : What is the significance of global exploration? How do cells and diseases interact? It has been a very interesting…

Witnessing History

The project we’ve been working on for the past couple of weeks, has been called: A Witness To History. This project has been all about these times of COVID-19. Throughout the project we’ve done many tasks to end up with a photo essay. I answered this question, with the photo essay I made. I think…

DI tournament-Online!

For the past term, we have been working on a tournament called Destination Imagination. In February we presented our final projects at the Regional Tournament. We were going to be presenting upgraded versions of our projects, on April 4th, at Provincials, but unfortunately, like most things in the time of the coronavirus, it got cancelled….

DI-ing inside: Destination Imagination Regional Tournament

The past term we have been working on a tournament called DESTINATION IMAGINATION. Every second day we have met up with our teams and made our challenges complete. My category was technical, and our challenge was called The Big Fix. We had to build an invention to solve a problem, or problems. Here is that…

It’s the End of the Project As We Know It!

For the past few weeks we have been working on a project called; It’s The End Of The World As We Know It. This project has been about the Renaissance and our transition from elementary school to high school. The driving question for this project was; What challenged your worldview from elementary to high…

The Ultimate Blog Post 💎

For the second and last project of term 2, we have been working on a project called : THE ULTIMATE DESIGN CHALLENGE. In this project, we had to come up with a design to 3D print at the end of the project. We also had to make calculations and measure the design, to find the…

Middle Ages: This Changes Everything ⚔️

What was life like in the Middle Ages? How does it compare to today? That was our driving question for our project on The Middle Ages! We’ve been working on this project for a while now and we just wrapped it up recently. This blog post is going to tell you all about that project…

Chemistry Coding – Scimatics!

This past month or so, we’ve been working on a project called Chemistry Coding! So far we’ve done a lot of work with textbooks and Scratch which is a coding website. In this blog post I will talk about what competencies I used, what I learned, what went well, the project end mind map and how my…