Monthly Archives: January 2018

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Math

Math Project: My main project for Math so far was My Door is a Bore (Surface area an volume).

My evaluation of myself in math is that I seem to understand concepts relatively quickly and beIng good with operations. I forget some things but I seem to remember most times by skipping the question and coming back to it after. I’ve always found an interest in math so I will work better or put more effort into it.

During the project we worked in groups of 4. We divided our work quite well and put our skills in places we had more experience with than the others in our group. I was more of the person who was calculating numbers in my head and drawing and measuring our shapes.

What I should probably improve in this subject will be make a habit of studying before quizzes or tests because soon I’ll be encountering math that will not have such an easy solution as to skip the question and come back to it.

Science

Science Project: My main project for Science so far was Kinetic theory of matter (iMovie video what it is).

Below is the video I made with my partner Caleb. We had a problem were some pictures and audio recordings were deleted and so you’ll have sections with a black screen with audio or a picture/diagram without audio except for background music.

We’ve covered one area in science so far and our project was to make an iMovie about it. You cou draw a diagram or make a little video represention (little act, stop-motion, experiment, etc.) to make an educational video. Ideally you had to pretend whoever was watching it didn’t know anything about the subject so it had to be simple. I mostly enjoy science and that’s a plus for me because it assures I will put effort into it. Besides I’m currently thinking of being a doctor (surgeon) after university so science and chemistry helps.

Science, being so related to math has me constantly developing applying skills that are useful in both subjects like volume calculations and distances.

I could probably improve my researching skills as most of the things we’ve done so far need to find information for worksheets or assembling and organizing information properly.

Humanities

Humanities Projects: Main projects have been our Advertisements, our Worldview videos and our infographics.

I’ll start of saying that’s procrastination has been a big problem because, unless you’re really crazy (at least in my opinion), watching YouTube videos or following your favourite sports team is a lot more fun than homework and school, and doesn’t require work.

I got quite frustrated at times when making our ads because no matter how good or bad your first ad draft, you were going to have to make ten drafts. I actually liked the experience and marketing skills might prove quite useful in the future. The ones we made were poster ads so we had to engage people with images and limit your text because we humans tend to be kind of lazy and don’t want to read an ad full of text.

For the Worldview however we had to make a video that you have to make completely from scratch. Finding kind of a story of your personal worldview, is not to hard but trying to make it relatively short is. The app we used, I din’t like, because no matter the tutorials I watched and the tips from my friends I found the app confusing and hard to use. My other problem is that I have a really bad tendency to leave things for last minute which eventually will cost me dearly.

The infographics had the same steps as the advertisements. For me one of the main differences between the two projects was that the infographics were in a group of 4 and the advertisements were solitary. I had to step up alongside another person in my group because we had little time left to finish it and our group members weren’t helping much as they were away or sick.

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Maker Project: My main project for Maker so far has been Blue Sky (Star Wars themed).

Probably my least favourite subject out of all four, I just don’t enjoy what we do. Maybe because at my age I don’t really understand how it could be helpful as an adult. I’ve been told that I may not understand now, but I might as well take the opportunity. My parents a have told me this several times, and as a result I kind of believe it, except I still just can’t put my full effort into it because I don’t enjoy it. I have learned that adults will tell you bad things that they have experienced so you don’t have to go through them but kids always get into new bad things, and that’s way every adult will teach a different thing.

The Star Wars exhbition, I find, just pushed me to learn more about Star Wars, but the truth is I never found something in it that I have a big interest on. The project being so big pushed me to make sure I can control my time well or you won’t be prepared, or won’t get much rest. It may seem harsh in short terms but will help in the long run.

 

Religion’s Impacts On Worldview

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Religion’s Impacts On Worldview

Back at it again with another blog post. We just finished a unit before the Christmas break called “Worldview and World religions”. Happy New Year’s to everyone, although it’s a little late already.

Anyways we’ve covering this subject for a while now and we had a few field trips and two projects during the span of it. We have studied several religions over the course of the unit. They are: Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Sikhism, Hinduism and Buddhism.

First Project

After having studied the concept of worldview for 1 week and a half we were tasked with using a new app to make a video about 3-5 minutes long. The app was called Explain Everything. In the app you can draw while your talking and it’ll show up on your screen during the video. You can also combine a bunch of other apps into it to make certain sounds or animations. The project was to pick three topics that are important to you and have changed your worldview. These three topics had bigger divisions that were part of the 7 things in worldview (below).

If you’re reading this, my video didn’t upload when I tried. I’ll try again later.

 

Field Trips

We went on 3 excursions during the unit. During the three we went to a Sikh Temple, a Buddhist Temple, a Hindu Temple, a mosque, a synagogue, and a church. At each place somebody was there to help us understand their worldview and how it has been affected by the religion they choose. They also explained to us what they did there, how they prayed and certainly things about the religion we didn’t have in our charts already.

First field trip:

Mosque pictures:

Synagogue pictures:

Second field trip:

We went to Richmond for a day where they have a street that has like 20 religious properties in a row.

Hindu Temple pictures:

Buddhist temple pictures:

Sikh Temple pictures (we had lunch there and it turns out they can only serve vegetarian foods really, but man was it great, with fresh made naan bread):

 

Third field trip:

We went to a church and met up with the father of the church. He explained to us many things and we asked a few questions about things we saw or experienced.

Second Project

Our second project was to make infographics in groups of 4 about a certain religion’s worldview. My group and I got Christianity. I referred to my chart a few times but sometimes it felt like religion is a really interesting and confusing topic.

We started off of with a wireframe (below).

After the wireframe we started off our infographic. Our first draft was horrendous and was just a picture of Jesus with a Fish and a loaf of bread beside him. THis represents that our group didn’t work well at the start. The other groups were way ahead by then. We still managed to hand it in on time.

Our second attempt was this. We’d used another app, added symbols and had decide on making almost like a circle or a square around Jesus.

We our third try was getting somewhere. We put the arrows in to make a cycle and so and order of who to read it.Was really crowded so we had to change it up. The colour coordination had improved. The main colours were white, golden yellow and and blue.

And finally this is what got approved. We changed the text colour so it would pop out a bit more. We spaced things out to make it more organized. We made the chart better with it being a perfect circle and not what we made before which a picture that had been edited 3 or 4 times. We added a box of text at the top so we could have 2 squares instead of one and an unfinished one. We decided on not blurring the clouds into the image but instead put a border around them.

These are some of the other groups’ infographics.

These two groups infographic had the most progress overall according to the teacher. I can see why. And they kept ahead the whole time.

Religions’ Chart

In order to remember better what we learned and have information right there, we had to make a chart with different religions and there similarities, differences, and traditions. For our second project we refferred to the chart often and we had some activities like worksheets that basically required the chart. We had to write things down in our own words so it got engraved in our heads and we could understand it better. While making it, I learned that Christianity, Islam, and Judaism all have the same roots so they actually have a great amount of things in common. For Buddhism and HInduism there is also a great similarity, they believe in reincarnation. You can read more by clicking the link below the pictures.

These are the symbols of the religions we studied.our group didn’t

Here’s a link to my chart.

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Until next time.