Category: School

Did you know that if different elements bond they can create a compound?

Today I will be talking about our latest chemistry unit in scimatics. We started of by learning about chemical bonding with this we started our first experiment where we had to follow these instructions:

After following these steps we had to observe and reflect on some questions and reflect on the reaction and changes.

After this we learnt more about chemical bonding, formulas, covalent compounds and many more things to help us with our project.

We eventually heard about our project and how we have to create a short story on chemical bonding. for the longest time I couldn’t figure out what to focus the short story on. I eventually sat down and thought through “what is bonding? What is a form of bonding we see daily?” Then it hit me. Friendship, that’s what I’ll focus my story on. So I started out by drawing my borh models.

I had a bit of trouble understanding how to draw a borh model but after some time I figured it out and got that accomplished. ✅ the next step in this process was the story board, I new I wanted it to be focused on the bonding of friendship but it took me a while to figure out the foundation of the story.

Then we started animating on explain everything, it took longer than I thought on creating this. First I animated, then edited, then added music and voice over, and finally I handed it in. I thought I completed it and was proud. But then I was told to revise it and better show how the chemicals bonded and that I did not represent it enough. I took this as good advice and worked on it quite a bit to animate that extra part. Once I submitted it for the second time I got the mark back and realized that I could have done better.

In conclusion I wish that I could have worked harder to better understand the core competencies on this project and to better represent the bonding of chemicals. I hope to do better on our next unit.

One of the curricular competencies that I can work on is

communicating:

formulate physical or mental theoretical models to describe a phenomenon 

I think that to work on this competency I have to go over my work and try my best to better understand the demands and expectations of a project outline to communicate the message though the next project.

Hey there do you like movies, Star Wars or more specifically the Star Wars prequels? If so then this opinion piece is for you.

Recently my class has been working on a Star Wars unit where we have to create a story on a side character and create something to represent our story. While working on this my mind has recently been filled with Star Wars. So I decided to re-watch some or if I have time all of the movies.

I decided to watch the prequels since I’ve enjoyed those most in the past times I’ve watched this trilogy. I don’t know what it is about the prequels that I like more than the original movies.

The movie I will be discussing is episode 2: the clone wars which happens to be my favourite.

Ok so let’s get started. This movie starts when someone tries to assassinate Senator Amidala but fails by not noticing that there is a decoy. From this event Anakin and Obi One Kenobi are assigned to protect the Senator and catch who is trying to kill her. The second attempt in this assassination is that the 2 Jedi can sense what happens in the room Padmé is in. They sense that something is in there and rush to the rescue and see two slug things which are highly poisonous. Anakin immediately kills the creatures right before they poison the Senator. They follow the assassin who gets killed with a poisonous dart before she can say anything.

Amidala is at a huge risk on her life right now and so they secretly transport her to Naboo with the aid of young Anakin Skywalker once arrived he confesses his love to her by saying the best meme ever “ I hate sand” that iconic moment is now one of the biggest jokes in my class. After confessing this love he is friend zoned by the Senator and is now becoming a closer and better friend to Padmé.

As this is happening Obi One is on an adventure of his own. Chasing a bounty hunter, planets that are wiped from the archives and discovering a secret clone army. On this journey he discovers that the trade federation are trying to side with the new Sith.

Anakin is becoming distressed with visions of his mother, he and Padmé go on an adventure round Tatooine to find her. But once Anakin finds her she dies in his arms. His mother was taken by sand people. Anakin gets furious and enraged so he kills all of these demons that take his mother.

After this has past there is quite a big battle between the trade federation and the Jedi with their new clone army.

In the end Padmé and Anakin get married in secret.

In conclusion the reason that this is my favourite Star Wars movie is that I just like the story, the characters and everything about it. Especially that it show more of Padmé’s personality.

This post is about our recent scimatics project about correlation vs. Causation. What does correlation and causation mean you might ask, well causation means the action of causing something, and correlation means connection between two or more things.

For this project I had to create some questions that could show correlation or causation and ask the class PLP 9 through a survey.

Before we started this project we had to make some project plan graphs.

The way I thought of my questions was thinking of things that some teenagers do and because we wanted to have most of the questions correlated to other questions.

the questions were

In conclusion we learned though this project that somethings could have a correlation but might not directly cause that and that somethings might directly effect something but might not have a correlation.

The reason I chose this as my avatar is because I’m very artistic and I love drawing stuff about ballet or dance.

Did you know that identity can be impacted by the places around you?

Today I will be taking about our latest humanities unit of identity and how place impacts who you are.

It all started with reading a book through the summer, it was called Rescue in the Rockies by Rita Feutl. It was about a girl that went back in time to witness different historical events.

After reading this book we moved on through the the unit and started our research on the CPR. We started with simple research questions like who drove in the last spike, how were the conditions of working and what is a snow shed.

Then we started to plan for our amazing trip to Alberta where we headed on an experience into Canada’s history. We went to multiple different locations that held amazing pieces of history. For example Craigallachie, studio bell, Glenbow museum, Three Valley Gap, Lake Louise and many more.

I learned so much on this trip about identity and the CPR history.

After arriving back home we had to create our first draft of our identity videos.

draft 1:

these are some of the things my teacher told me to revise

”Cool hook! Nice introduction as well, you speak very clearly and explain well your goal in the video! I am hoping we can look through your camera roll and find some more clips that pertain to your script (for example, you could even put a picture of your dance studio when you talk about that!). I also think the Interviews you have included need more context, explain why they are included in the video. The wolf one for example was a good question, but does not pertain to our driving question. When you ask the boat guy as well about the “experience”, what experience are you referring to. Both these interviews need more explanation. If they don’t support your topic – you may have to take them out! That’s ok, I want this video to have more flow than include things that don’t help your point. Some music would really add too! Good work Rhiann!”

so I spent a lot of time and consideration and here is the final video.

I really learnt a great deal of identity and how easily one little place can impact who you are, you decisions and your worldview. I hope that you liked this post. Au revoir 🌈

Hi, this blog post is going to be kind of similar o my M-pol post but this one is at the end of the year and has a different driving question.

Before I started to work on my T-Pols I decided to look back at my goal moving forward from my M-Pols, “to procrastinate less and to continue to be open to learning.” I said I was going to achieve this by “committing time to getting things done and take my time doing it and not rushing through it. I’ve learned a lot about time blocking and I find it very helpful. I made this goal in December and I haven’t achieved it yet but I will continue working on it.” I have found that I have succeeded in becoming more open to learning and having more of a growth mindset but I need to keep working on procrastinating less. I will accomplish that by looking ahead to when things are due and then working backwards to see when I can work on it and how much time I have to work on it.

I have learned many new things this year. Colonization, Shakespeare, light, dissection, algebra and linear equations and blue sky. I have learned through all of this that I struggle with writing paragraphs and putting my thoughts on paper, or in this case an iPad. My family and I have learned this together and are trying to work together to find the best way to help me with this. After many conversations we have decided to try tutoring and LAC. A good thing about LAC is that if you take it in high school it can be offered to you in post secondary if you need more help.

Way back in grades 6 and 7 I thought that high school was going to be scary. I thought about people being shoved in lockers, being the shortest, being pushed around in the halls and trampled. But after doing the 7 11 program I found that useful to connect with those students that have been through high school and how they could tell us their experiences. I found that took off a lot of stress. Then once I got to high school and figured out my schedule I found it smooth sailing and all the things I was scared of never happened other than common traffic in the halls. Now I actually prefer high school compared to elementary school.

I think that the biggest that I have discovered this year is my work ethic. In DI we had to work in teams, at the beginning I found it really hard with everyone figuring out what to do and figuring out ideas. But once I got every one to sit and listen, figure out who does what and what to do we got it under control. Another example of me working well in a team is just recently with blue sky. Sadly we didn’t get to know or meet with our groups until around 3 days before the exhibition, so our group was kind of panicking about getting our mural done and all the decorations. But in the end our group was one of the best.

Thank you so much for listening and I would love to hear your feedback and thoughts.