I’m Indecisive, I think?!

Hi everyone, welcome back to my blog!

“The world reveals it’s self to those who travel on foot.”- Werner Herzog. If you read my maker post you’ll know that we had a grade 9 PLP field study already, and that we did a lot of walking! If you haven’t already read my maker post here’s a link to it. https://www.blog44.ca/ailieh/2023/10/12/173/. In that post I talked about the maker aspect of our Alberta Field study, and how we made videos to tell a story. 

In humanities, our question was, how is the geography of the west shaped who we are today? How did we answer this? Another one of our field study books! If you haven’t read another one of my posts: We were Ore-gone for a while but now we’re back, then here it is. https://www.blog44.ca/ailieh/2023/06/09/112/. It explains what we did last year on our grade 8 field study in Oregon, and it also has the book that we did last year embedded in it!

The most important thing we learned about on this trip, was the five themes of geography. Location, Place, Geography Human environmental interaction and Movement. Our job in Alberta, was to find examples of each of these elements. We made comic life’s depicting these elements! Mine is included in my book.

This time our book was made up of, after choosing photos from each place, answering the same three questions for each place. What is geography through one or more of the Five Themes of Geography? What is the historical significance of this photo? Your own connection to the photo?

I enjoyed all of the places, but if I had to pick my favourite it would have to be the Sulfure Mountain hike, and the view from the top! Here’s what we saw when we were up there.

I really enjoyed the format of this book and had a lot of fun gathering this information by the experiences I had! My book took quite a lot of editing, but the end product I’m very happy with! I had a cartoon character that I used in my Oregon book and I made an older version of it for this book.

So here it is:

 Thanks for reading, hope you like my book!

-Ailie 💜

Hi

Welcome back to my blog people! 

Filming, filming filming and more filming. The camera, always on. Icloud storage, disappeared. The filming was endless.

Our PLP 9 class went on our annual field study! This time we went to Alberta. The focus was 4 different videos. Our projects driving question for maker was how do we use the image to tell a story? After going on this awesome trip, and making the videos, I now have an answer to this question. The moving image, aka video provokes emotions. What we do or say in the video, our acting or our actions can tell a story.

So here we go! The first video that we did, and probably my favourite video is the silent video. We had to come up with a storyline, and choose what buildings, or where we wanted to film it within three valley gap.

 Our group went with a murder mystery. Our storyline started once upon a time there was a murderer who terrorized a small town. Then it builds from there and gets more dramatic and to be honest just more fun. I had a really great group made up of, Finn, Nate, Maddie, and myself. We quite enjoyed filming and really getting into our characters. I’ll include the video for you guys to watch. And of course every film always has its mishaps, so I’ll also include our absolutely hilarious, blooper reel. For this video, I learned that I love working in a group more than ever, iMovie is very easy to work with and configure, and never to trust your wife, because she might be the murderer!

My silent film:

My silent film bloopers:

The next video is our TikTok inspired video. We could do this in groups or by ourselves. This one was just for fun. I did mine with Neko, and we decided to do the clap trend throughout the places we went in the Rockies. It’s also sort of a fit check from each day. I’ll include it below! From this video, I learned that there are so many places with absolutely stunning views in the Rockies, how to make a YouTube short, and that Neko always has really good outfits, but I already knew that!

My TikTok video:

The next video is the at home video. This was a video that we did before we went to Alberta. The question for that video was what inspires me? Well you’ll see if you watch it! My friends and family are really impactful in what inspires me! I learned that I love using slow motion, that my cat doesn’t love me and I love throwing my work out the window!

Here is my at home video:

What inspires me!

The final video that we did was our investigative video. For this video we had to make a thesis statement, we had to do interviews, and put it all together into one video, cohesively, and sort of make it like a story. This one was probably the toughest video for me, but it was also quite fun, walking up to strangers, and interviewing them it gave me insight on what people thought about my thesis. 

The questions I asked for my interview were, where are you from? What part of Canada do you consider the west? What do you think makes the west of Canada different from the rest of Canada? and how do you think the west has shaped your identity? My thesis was, Canada is a big country made up of different provinces. British Columbia and Alberta, also known as the west, are unique from the rest of Canada, due to their mountainous geography. The Canadian Pacific Railway was built despite the challenging terrain, reflecting the identity of those who still live here.

Here is my investigative video:

Do you know the song “Ain’t no mountain high enough.” By Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell? I do! And I also know that the mountains in Alberta were definitely high enough, or at least the ones we hiked up! Though sore muscles, broken buses and crashing into trees on a ropes course, Alberta was so fun!!

Thank you so much for reading my blog post!

– Ailie 💜

Hi again people!!!

So we’re doing our tPOLs, which are the same as our mPOLs, they are just for the transition into grade 9! So here’s mine:

 

Thanks so much for reading! tPOLs, like mPOLs are an important part of PLP!

-Ailie 💜

Hello!

I’m back to post again! This time we had the spring exhibition, and the project surrounding it! It was an amazing exhibition. Our class was much more organized than we had been last time. We didn’t get a lot of days to plan, but we managed it! Our plan at the beginning was to rely heavily on the all providing dollar store. In the end we executed our plan and it actually worked.

All of grade 8 was stationed in the gym. Each of our Oregon groups were given a table. Our group, Kam Meng was stationed in a good spot. We arranged our table and put out the materials. Then we set out our food and drink. We used 7up and called it bamboo extract, we also put out fortune cookies, and cookies decorated with icing.
Here is our draft of what we wanted it to look like:

We basically executed the draft exactly!

The whole project that we featured in this exhibition was the reason we went to Oregon! But first let’s go back to before we went to Oregon. We started off our whole project for the exhibition by defining media: a way to communicate, mostly through technological means, regarded collectively. Evolving from that we defined other things to do with media for example the consumer: They are a big group of people who could be part of the target audience, or not, who have purchased a product. They consume products, in our case, products from companies.

Then we continued with the knowledge of what media is, to learn about the different types of it, specifically advertisements. We did many smaller activities to extend our knowledge about advertising.

Now that we knew all about advertising, we were introduced to our project. First we were assigned a group of about 7 people, my group was Mika Aidan Esther  Izzy Matteo and Seb! Then we were assigned a business in Oregon, and ours was Kam Meng, an American style Chinese restaurant. We planned for the interview, and then we executed it in Oregon to one of the workers. Then we gathered that info from the interview to execute our own ad for our business. We used the info to brainstorm, and then made numerous drafts. In the end we made a final draft! I am so proud of my final draft.

Here it is:

One more thing before I go, we made a journal, called a launch journal going through the steps of what we did for the project.

LAUNCH Portfolio

The spring exhibition went so well!

Thanks for reading my blog post!!

-Ailie 💜

Hello again!!

In this post, I’m going to be telling you about one of PLP‘s main features, one of the funnest parts, and my favourite part. The most recent thing we did with PLP was go on something called a field study. I feel the study is basically a multi day field trip. They are lots of fun and lots of info! This field study, we went to Oregon. Here’s what we did and why we went to Oregon in the first place.

In PLP, there’s a reason why we go on a super awesome trip to another country. This time it was for an advertising project called the medium is the message! This project is a humanities project, focusing on advertising. First in groups, we were assigned a business. All of those businesses were the ones we were going to visit in Oregon. Each day when we visited these businesses assigned to whatever business we were at interviewed them. My group was Kam Meng, an American style, Chinese restaurant.

First day of our Oregon trip, we drove a whole lot. All the way across the border and a few more hours. After a quick stop at Cabelas, our first business and our first food stop was Clark’s restaurant. Then we drove some more, stopped at Dismal Nitch and continued on to our second business group at Astoria Column. Then we had dinner and visited Peter Iredale. And continued onto our cabins where we stayed for the next two days.

The second day we had breakfast and went to the Columbia River. Then we went to Fort Stevens and had our first quest. After lunch at Dairy Queen, we went zip lining at Highlife Adventures where our third group interviewed that business. Then we had dinner and went to bed.

Day three we had breakfast and drove to the Columbia River Maritime Museum, where we checked out the cool displays. Fourth interview group interviewed the museum. Then we drove and had lunch at Pig and Pancake, which was really delicious. Then we went to Cannon Beach and enjoyed the wonderful view. Then one of my favourite stops, the Tillamook Creamery where we learned about how they made cheese and even got to sample it. Then we went back for dinner and a good sleep.

 

On day four we had breakfast and went to arguably one of the coolest natural places I have ever been. Yeah quit now head at least that’s what it sounded like it was spelled Yaquina Head. The fifth group interviewed the people at a lighthouse there. And we went off on our second quest. Then we went to Hatfield Marine Science Center where we would go the next morning as well. And the sixth group interviewed the interviewees. Then we had dinner at a very good buffet.

Day five: by now we were staying at the yurts which were a very fun communal place to stay. We went back to Hatfield Marine Science Center. Yesterday we did an experiment on how fast crabs can run, today we’re doing two experiments. The first experiment was finding shrimp on a mud beach, and recording the number of them, their age, sex etc. The second experiment was building an R.O.V. And getting it to pick up magnetic objects underwater. Then we had lunch and went to a marine discovery tour, where our seventh group interviewed the organization. Then we had our third quest. Then we had dinner at my interview groups’ business Kam Meng, where we interviewed our business.

Next Day 6, we had breakfast and headed to Depoe Bay. Then we drove and our teachers had prepared a surprise for us. We went to BULLWINKLES which is an arcade, pizza place, and theme park! Then we drove for another while where we had dinner at Burger Claim, a burger place with peanut butter burgers! It’s our last night, so we stayed at a hotel! We swam in the pool before bed and then went to sleep.

Our last day we drove to a place called Wolf Haven, which is a sanctuary for wolves and our last interview group. Then we drove to Golden Corral Buffet to have lunch. Then it was the home stretch. I was in the van, because we had the van and the bus! I absolutely loved van shenanigans! We drove for a lot of hours to finally get home!

It was so much fun, and I learned so much!

Here’s my journal about our travels:

Thank you so much for reading my blog post!
– Ailie 💜

Hello again!!

Our most recent project along side https://www.blog44.ca/ailieh/2023/05/04/science-the-game-or-maybe-its-a-subject/ in science is our humanities project on colonization.

To start this project off we were randomly assigned a group of people who came to New France when it was colonized. I was assigned les filles du roi the king’s daughters, you can read more about them here: Research Questions – Colonization .

Next we wrote a paragraph for a script we were saying for a video, but before we officially wrote the script, we were put in groups. We had one person from each category of people travelling to and/or living in New France. My group members were Finn who studied the indigenous peoples, Hazel poor people, Sidney rich people, and Danica missionaries.

As our final project, we all wrote paragraphs and answered the two questions: how did colonization affect all involved, and what were the consequences of colonization. We then put our paragraphs and answers together in a script. Next we drew symbols to represent our group of people, then we recorded ourselves in Armaker using our symbols as a visual. Finally using iMovie we put together our recordings to explain the perspective of all of the participants in the colonization of New France!

Now we have finished our most recent PLP projects, but I’m sure I’ll be back because there are certainly more to come soon!!!

Thanks for reading for now!!

-Ailie 💜

Hellooo!

Welcome back to my blog! This time I’m back because we have finished a new project in science! We have learned so many things in so little time, whether it is what we’re made out of, what happens to ice when it melts, and why or why not gummy bears get bloated in different water temps and types. But first, lets talk about what we did to learn the info for this project. 

During the month of April we learned many things. We learned about matter, and how it makes up all objects, including living things. To add a little bit of math we learned how to calculate an object’s volume using its mass and density, or vice versa. Then we learned how to make qualitative and quantitative observations. 

Next we touched up on the states of matter, focusing on how the temperatures put them through changes (kinetic molecular theory).  

Using an experiment to help make it fun and interactive, the next thing we learned about was diffusion. The steps for the experiment were, multiple bags of gummy bears and a whole lot of sugar loving teens. So, now you have your sugar loaded teens and less gummy bears than expected, just kidding we didn’t have tooooo manyyy. You basically take the gummy bears and put them in water of different temperature or carbonation, and leave them in the water for a day and observe the results! 

Finally to sum up all of the things we learned, we created a video game. We could pick anything we learned to be our theme, for example I picked a game inspired by t-rex run. First you start with an ice cube and it has to jump over objects to go to round 2 which is liquid. Then same thing with liquid to gas. If you make it through the gas level you win the game. It relates to the states of matter, and the acceleration of the particles compared to the heat they are exposed to. 

Thanks for reading my blog post!!

-Ailie 💜

Hello!

We just finished our science unit on cells. The driving question was: How can our knowledge of cell biology contribute to public health?

Our first keystone was an experiment. We swabbed a surface of our choice and watched the bacteria grow! I did the wall and floor in the girls bathroom. There was so much bacteria. There was more on the floor than the wall, therefor my hypothesis was right!

Here’s my field journal:

Field Journal

For keystone two we made character cards for all of the different types of cells. The white blood cell, the b-cell, the killer, memory and help t-cells, the macrophage, and the antibodies.

Immune Cell Character – B-cell

Immune Cell Character – White blood cell

Immune Cell Character – Macrophage

Immune Cell Character- T-cells

Immune Cell Character – Antibodies

Keystone three was making an infographic about why someone might not want to get vaccinated. I worked with Tate Me, Myself, and I and Syd Syddy giddy insta graham crackers blog! We made an infographic on canva with the theme: why did people not get it?

To finish up this unit we made a poster promoting getting rid of pathogens! Students from Eastview Elementary drew pictures of what they thought cells and pathogens looked like. Then we had to incorporate their drawings into our posters, then our posters will be put up around Eastview, and the students there will be able to see their drawings in our posters!

Here’s my poster:

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Thank you so much for reading my blog post!

Remember there are friends in your body, protect them!

-Ailie 💜

Hi! 

I haven’t posted in so long. The project I’m writing about is the most recent project we did for PLP Humanities. We were learning about vikings, and their travels. Then we moved forward in time a little more, but we still stuck with the explorers. 

The project we did to summarize our work before we start spring break was writing a book about an explorer or a perspective to do with an explorer. I did mine on Jacques Cartier, the French explorer that helped colonize Canada. My story is written from the perspective of an imaginary maid that worked on his ship as a cleaner. 

Here’s the link to my story:

 https://read.bookcreator.com/0GbF6KWuIUaBAsWSKgkj21LeHq83/smjev0gOTnyO3c6kZ2hm0w

This project has helped me understand why the explorers were motivated to explore!

Thanks for reading my blog post!

-Ailie 💜

Hello again everyone!

For the semester turnaround we had to present something called an mPOL. It is our declaration of learning for PLP! Here’s what I have planned.

Thank you so much for reading my post!
-Ailie💜