on For the last few months, in humanities we have been doing a project called “The Wilderness Must Be Explored”. The project’s 🏎️ Driving Question🏎️ is “How does language inspire adventure?” This is a very special project, as we went on a week long field study to Oregon to learn more about it! We also got… Continue Reading A Breath of the Wilderness
on In the fascinating realm of my grade 8 science class, my recent work has been all about the unseen world of the immune system, vaccines, and pathogens. From examining bacteria’s ability to resist antibiotics to creating new ways to prevent diseases, I’ve been delving deep into these microscopic wonders. In this blog post, I’ll share… Continue Reading Small But Mighty! 🦠💉
on For the last month in humanities, I have been working towards a Keynote presentation. It is about colonization and its consequences. As you can see, this took a lot of time to create. Luckily, I was not doing this alone. I was working on this with two of my incredible classmates: Aidan and Isaac. Here… Continue Reading Consequences of Colonization
on The mPOL Declaration Thank you for coming to my presentation of learning. I am the expert of my own learning. This means that I am responsible, and therefore should also be held accountable, for my own learning. You can expect me to give an honest evaluation of my progress to the best of my ability.… Continue Reading My Midyear Presentation of Learning
on The Age of Exploration The Age of Exploration was, in short, when many European explorers discovered, conquered, and colonized other places. The main areas they travelled to were North America, South America, and Africa. These lands contained different resources that Europeans traded for, bought and sometimes just took for themselves. The age of exploration was… Continue Reading Bon Voyage! ⚓️⛵️🚤
on Destination Imagination Part 1 A big part of PLP is that every year we get to compete in a big competition. This competition is called destination imagination. The first one that you get to compete in is regionals. The next one is provincials. My team and I have not done the provincials yet, so I… Continue Reading Destination Imagination 💭
on The States of Matter Over the last few months in science class, I have been learning about atoms and the KMT, or the Kinetic Molecular Theory. In short, the KMT describes how atoms move and interact in various states of matter. In order to demonstrate my understanding of the KMT, I got to create a… Continue Reading The KMT ⚛️
on Over the last month in my Humanities class, I created art. Now, when I say that, I don’t mean that I painted or drew. I mean that I wrote poetry! If you want to read “My Worldview is a Jungle” My Book As with every project in PLP, we had to present something. What did… Continue Reading My Worldview is a Jungle
on Hi! Today I am going to talk about how the winter exhibition went and the project that I showed at the winter exhibition. Radical Innovations The project I have been working on in Humanities (and sometimes even Maker), was called Radical Innovations. It is all about the Renaissance, its impacts, some of which can still… Continue Reading Winter exhibition
on Do you want to know why I had to draw for over 5 hours last week? Read on to find out! Word Art The first thing that we did was create a word art. This meant taking a word, and then making that word into a piece of art. We did this piece of art… Continue Reading My Drawings