Hello! Within this blog post I will be reflecting on a new scimatics project that I finished called Meiosis Models. In this project we learnt about the process of both mitosis and meiosis and were tasked with showing these processes throughout accurate 3D models. The driving question for this project is “How is other reproduction […]
Videos, They’re Very Vibrant!
Hello! Have you ever wonder how vibrant your personality is? Your about to find out in this post! (Just kidding, anyways continuing…) This blog post is about a short, Maker 9, project I’ve completed called Vibrant Video. The goal of this project was a to develop skills to become an effective movie maker. As I […]
A War To End All Wars (I think not)
Hello! I’ve completed another project in my Humanities 9 year. This project is called “A War To End All Wars: Graphically Told”. We got to learn about events that happened throughout WW1 and turn this knowledge into a story. With this concept I strove to answer the driving question: “How might we use graphic novels […]
Become Effective Not Subjective
Hello! This blog post will be about a new Maker 9 project called ‘Believe in Good’. Within this project we were tasked with reading a book called The 7 habits By Stephen Covey or a connecting book targeted towards teens called 7 Habits of a Highly Effective Teen by Sean Covey. I read the teen […]
Metaphor Machines!!
Hello world, I’ve started a new scimatics project called ‘Metaphor Machines’. Throughout this project I was tasked to make a Rube Goldberg Machine that displayed the scientific method and and electric circuits. This project also had two driving questions which were “How can we represent the scientific method?” and “What factors affect the function […]
“Shifting Into Grouchy Gear!!!”
Hello! This blog post is going to be quite the reflection. I’ve completed a project/challenge called Destination Imagination. If you’ve read my blog before you may remember this from my grade 8 year. But, this experience was very different then the last (and I’m about to show you why in this blog post). As […]
Nationalism: Man… It’s A Destiny!
Hello! I’ve started a new Humanities project called “A Case For a Nation”. This project was about researching a topic of the past that relates to nationalism and how content within that historical topic can symbolically be represented through an image/post. The driving question that I strove to answer throughout this project is “How […]
We Don’t Retreat, We Advance!
Hello! This is probably my most important/intriguing reflections throughout this year. For my first time ever I went on a field study! Now, what’s a field study you may ask. In short answer, It’s is a trip where learners go out of the school environment and build on different skills in unique places. Which leads […]
Alicia’s mPOL Post!
Declaration of Learning: “Thank you for coming to my presentation of learning. I am the expert on my own learning. I am also responsible and accountable for my own learning. You can expect me to give an honest evaluation of my progress. We will discuss my strengths and opportunities for growth. Thank you in advance for listening and […]
An Awesome Assonance Alliteration! (A Poetry Post)
Hello and welcome to this short reflective blog post. I’m very excited to announce that I’ve came to the end of a new Humanities project to work on. This project was called Working With Words and it was about poetry! (Yes I’m writing that with excitement). I really enjoyed this project because it was about […]
