Hello, and welcome back!
🍓🍌Making a smoothie for math class?🍌🍓
Hello people and welcome back to another blog post. This time I’m going to be talking a project that we just finished in math. So we were learning about polynomials and like terms. And for the project we had to come up with our own driving question that we had to answer. The question could be many things. For example one group in our class coded their own game, another group made a cake, and one group made a bridge. Now what my group decided to make was a strawberry smoothie. Our driving question was “How can we make an equation and use like terms out of ingredients of a fruit smoothie?” So we answered that question. First I’m going to talking a little bit about the curricular competencies.
Understanding and solving
~ Apply multiple strategies to solve problems in both abstract and contextualized situations
We got accomplished in this competency because we used correct mathematical operations involved in combing like term. This was shown in one of our slides that included all of our math and equations.
Communication and representing
~ Represent mathematical ideas in concrete, pictorial, and symbolic forms
For this competency we were given accomplished/extending. We did good on it because our presentation to the class was practiced, enthusiastic, clear, detailed, engaging and interactive. It helped others understand the concept better. This was shown in the presentation part of our project.
Connecting and reflecting
~ Connect mathematical concepts to each other and to other areas and personal interests
We got accomplished/extending on this competency because we used personalized, authentic and original work on our project and presentation. This competency will also be assessed on our blog posts, the one you are reading right now.
Applying and innovating
~ Contribute to care for self, other, community and world through individual or collaboration approaches
We got accomplished on this competency because we used all our class time wisely and got things done on time.
This project was very fun and I really enjoyed it. It was a little hard to come up with an idea in the beginning because there are so many options that we couldn’t decide what to do. We did end up a strawberry smoothie like I said. And how we answered our driving question you ask? Well what we did was take the first letter of each ingredient and use it as a variable and the amount of of that ingredient was the number. So we put it all together and we got our polynomial. After making the smoothie we put together our keynote presentation, practiced and we were ready to present. Over all my group did very well with this project and I’m very proud of our work.
– Emily ✌️
📚mPOL’s📚
So far this is year has been quite eventful. At the start of this year my class went to Alberta where we learnt about how place impacts us. Then before we knew it, it was already the start of the Winter Exhibition. We have learnt many things in many different ways, including the Winter Exhibition, many videos and even TikToks. Yes TikToks I’m not kidding. I have definitely learnt so much from all our projects… so far. I know there is so much more to come. But today I am asking myself how I can improve my learning skills with a goal I would like to accomplish by the end of this year.
Whats my goal you’re wondering. Well with all the projects I’ve done this year the biggest thing I struggled with was my time management skills. Even though I used Things and time blocked it still didn’t give me the motivation to get the work done. This is something I’ve struggled with last year too. There many projects I did well because I felt motivated to get it done on time. But as soon as I fall behind a bit everything starts piling up and it makes it much harder for me to get my work done on time.
I find what helps me most through those stressful homework piles is taking a break every hour to reset my mind in order to finish my work and not have it be rushed and not thought through. So my overall goal is to keep a positive mind set and to stay on top of my work.
A good example of a blog post that I rushed this and didn’t think through what I was doing was Star Wars Review ~ Empire Strikes Back. This blog post I did not do well on. I didn’t plan out anything, I kept losing my focus which made it much harder to concentrate which made the blog post so bad. If i were to go back and do this again, I would first off have a plan on how I was going to complete this on time but also include all the requirements and extra things i wanted to add. Then I would take my time and actually write a good blog post.
But a good example of when I took my time and did the work well, was my Maker 9 Reflection Post . This post I believe I did very well on because before I started any writing I created a bullet point check list of everything that I needed to include. I planned out the amount of time I was going to need for completion. I’m proud of this post because it shows that I put good effort into it.
Now I say everyday that I’m going to be very productive and get all my work done. But lets be honest, that almost never happens. So my question to myself is how am I going to change my work habits so I can be more productive? I do find this a little hard to answer because the couple things I’ve tried to help me so I can stay on top of things but none of them help me as much as I need them to. So this is something that I am going to work on as this year comes to an end. Before its over I want to have accomplished my goal so I can move on to work on my other weaknesses.
I did notice that when I was in a group I tend to get work done on time because if I don’t I know I’m letting my group down which is not something enjoy. Looking back at my individual work compared to my group work, I see that my group work is better. But I want to have my individual work be at the same level as my group work. This will help me with many things and it will help me to enjoy doing my work much more.
So far this year I have learnt many many thing. I’m so grateful to be in this wonderful program called PLP. I’m so psyched to continue my learning with PLP.
Thanks for listening
– Emily✌️
💥It’s TikTok Time💥
Yes actually we are making TikTok for a class project. But there’s a reason. In class we are studying nationalism and historical significance. The way we are going to be showing our learning is through current day memes. Right now we are learning about cause and consequence. The third milestone for this project was we had to create TikToks.
Ok I would be very surprised if you didn’t know what TikTok is. But just incase I will give you a little explanation. “TikTok is a video sharing social networking service that is used to create short videos ranging to a minute.” But continuing on in this project we won’t just make a couple TikToks, we will also be making memes.
So what is a meme? A meme is a funny image or video that you would normally see on social media. A meme can also be explained as a picture or video that has a message/idea that is represented by using more then just words.A good way to explain a meme in one word is DNA. Memes are like DNA because They are like DNA because they reproduce and change all the time. As soon as a meme is released the people decide if it is funny or not, and if the rest of world will get to see it. If it’s not popular and no people take it and evolve it and change it to continue o in the world of memes then it will just die, and no one will be able to see it cause it wasn’t worthy enough. Well maybe it’s to that dramatic but thats pretty much the gist.
Richard Darwin said, a meme can also be compared and described with Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. Thought as an idea, behaviour or style that spreads from person to person within a culture. when you think about it memes are all over the place. Sometimes you don’t realize it, but they are there.
Ok I think its time for me to talk about the TikToks I created for this milestone.
TikTok #1: SNOW DAY!!
The first TikTok me and my friends created was about a snow days our school had. This was a great day. We got this idea from… well to be honest why we chose to do this one was because we forgot we had to do TikToks for our project to we hadn’t actually done any yet. So we decided it would be easy and fun to do one about the snow day. It turned out pretty good I think. This TikTok show all the things we did that day. We went sledding, we went to a cafe for a nice hot chocolate break. Well except Holly, Holly got an iced tea instead.
TikTok #2: Yes, I still have stuffed animals
The other TikTok I did was about my stuffed animals. Ha yeah I know sooooo childish. But you know what? I am very childish. I’m practically still a little kid! But anyway back to the TikTok. This one was really fun to make and I really enjoyed making it. Hopefully it makes a little sense and it funny too.
– Emily ✌️
❄️Winter Exhibition 2019❄️
Hello people welcome back to another blog post! If you have read my blog before you might remember me writing a different blog post about last year’s exhibition. Here’s a link to if you would like to check it out —> Winter Exhibition 2018 now let me first say what this year’s exhibition was all about. The 2019 winter exhibition’s focus was STAR WARS!! I really enjoyed the exhibition this year. Probably more then last year. It was really fun getting to work with the grade 8’s this year too.
Before this project started I knew nothing about Star Wars, even when we had to write a paragraph about all the things we knew and were excited for about Star Wars, I didn’t have much to write because I didn’t know anything. But we all got to start somewhere, right. So as I said the first thing we did to start off this project was a littler introduction about our knowledge on Star Wars. Since I don’t have much knowledge about Star Wars mine was pretty short but it still had a couple things I knew about Star Wars from my dad telling me about it.
For this project we spilt it into two parts. Each half we had a didn’t thing to work on and a different curricular competencies. For humanities we made a short story. For maker we created a artifact that represented our part of story.
Humanities: What literacy skills am I using to write, speak, and represent in the text I create?
Another thing we did to start off this project was a short story review chart. We did this so we could learn how to write a good story for the humanities part of this project. What did we have to do for the humanities part you ask. Well each group had to write their own story about a character in Star Wars. They could either make them up or choose an already made character and create their backstory that the movies do not include.
After we had been assigned our groups, each group got a planet. My group was Malaika, Alex,
Anders, Anthony, Jude and Gabe. Our plant was the Death Star. Now that we were in our groups we started writing the story. The story was divided into seven parts. The story followed the hero’s journeys rules. You ask what that is? Well the hero’s journey is what we used to make our stories.
Maker: How might I use technology to create in new ways?
Below you will see my artifact that I made. At first when we were brainstorming what to make I had absolutely no idea. I wasn’t sure if I wanted to create something in real life or on my iPad. I finally had decided a week and a half before the exhibition which made things pretty stressful but it did all work out in the end.
For the actual creation of my control panel didn’t take long. I had to look all around the house to find enough cardboard and paint but once I had everything it was pretty quick to put together. I first made the base with cardboard and duck tape then I spray painted it all black and finally I put little holes around the edge to put these colourful lights. In the middle you’ll see a big hole. That is there so I can place my iPad in there and on my iPad it has a map of the Death Star. I did this because I thought it would make it a bit more clear that this control panel was from the Death Star.
Before creating our artifact we had to make our LAUNCH journal. A LAUNCH journal is pretty much steps to follow that helps you create something successful. The LANUCH journal was very helpful for me when I was creating my artifact. It was easy to follow and it helped me stay on top of the work so I wouldn’t miss an important step.
After our stories were done and everyone had finished making their artifact. It was time to actually start the Winter Exhibition. This was quite the night. We started setting up right at 3:00 and finished by 5:00. The whole time we were setting up everything was chaos! The one problem we always have is that there’s never enough tape! No matter how much you bring it’s never enough. I brought three full rolls of duck tape and didn’t get any back. Pretty crazy. Anyways, after everything was set up and looking great the teachers had to feed us so we got pizza! I think that put us all in a good mood because the exhibition had started. People started arriving going to check out everyone’s awesome projects.
I think the whole night was a success! This was definitely my favourite PLP project we’ve done so far. It was really fun learning how to write awesome stories and learning all about Star Wars. I feel like I did good with this project. I’m proud of what I created. And I think I met all the companies. I’m really proud of my whole class for pulling off a exhibition to remember!
– Emily✌️
🪐Star Wars Review ~ The Empire Strikes Back🪐
The Empire Strikes Back was a remarkable movie. It included everything you could want in a movie. It had action, comedy, a little romance and at all times I was very interesting in what was going on. I don’t like Star Wars movies. I find them boring and not interesting.
But this one, The Empire Strikes Back was an amazing movie. I loved how in all scenes there was always something that had your attention. You could never get bored watching this. They did a great job with each scene and I can’t say this enough, but it was just such an amazing and interesting movie. It is by far the best out of all Star Wars movies.
– Emily ✌️
🤸♀️Yes I’m a gymnast🤸♀️
Hello welcome back to my blog. Today I’m going to talk about this little project we did. This was called the Live Event Video. So basically we take a bunch of clips and pictures from an event of our choice. I chose my gymnastics practice. So in the video is pretty much what my gymnastics practice looks like.
Ok first step in this project was the action plan. Which is just about what type of shots I wanted to take and details about the video itself.
Next I actually filmed the practice and got everything I needed to create my video. As I’ve said I decided to do my video about my gymnastics practice. My gymnastics team is pretty small compacted to the other teams. But we still have lots of people. In gymnastics there are 5 levels. I am on level 2, at this level we do backhand springs, front/back flips and all sorts of jumps and leaps. There are two girls in level two, one girl in level 3 and everyone else is in level 1. Every gymnastics practice are pretty much the same. We warmup, we stretch and then we do lines. Lines are pretty much just us doing all of our basic skills. We do this so we don’t do a skill and hurt ourselves because we didn’t warm up before.
Here’s how my video turned out!
I am pretty happy with the out come wth my video. I think I got some good shots and angels. It definitely turned out how i wanted it to be, which I’m happy about. The old thing that wasn’t great was the audio in my interview/ but thats ok, next time I know what i need to fix. Thanks to my team mates for letting me film this practice. Hope you liked my video! See you in my next blog post!
– Emily ✌️
🧪Chemistry Stories🧪
Welcome back to another blog post! In this blog post I’m going to be talking a bit about our project that we just finished, chemistry stories. This project we learnt all about Bohr models, polyatomic ions, covalent compounds, and multivalent metals. What we needed to do for our project was create a animated video explaining the bond between your multivalent metal and covalent compound.
There were four curricular competencies. One the big idea. Two communication. Three processing and analyzing. And fourth questioning and predicting.
Big idea: The electron arrangement of atoms impacts their chemical nature. My understanding of this idea is that they do impact the chemical nature of atoms because of how many electrons and what shells their in an atom they will either share or give away electrons.
Communication: Formulate physical or mental theoretical models to describe a phenomenon. I represented this in my video by creating a Bohr models to describe the phenomenon of the bonding of atoms.
Processing and analyzing: Construct, analyze and interpret models and/or diagrams. I had to construct Bohr models for my video, analyze them on a quiz and a test and explain them in my video.
Questioning and predicting: Demonstrate a sustained intellectual curiosity about a scientific topic or problem of personal interest. This competency is demonstrated through use of class time. I used my class time efficiently and tried my hardest to stay on task because of my sustained interest in the topic. Because of this I handed in almost everything on time and created a video that showed my accomplishment.
Heres my final video:
– Emily ✌️
🔎 Let’s Reflect 🔍
Wow, week 8! The student blogging challenge has come to an end. This year was shorter then last year but still just as fun. Here is all the posts I did this year.
Week 1 ~ Let’s Get to Know Eachother
Week 2 ~ Connect Through Commenting
Week 7 ~ Celebrations and Traditions
I have two different looks on the student blogging challenge. One, it a fun way to express your self and share with others. Two, just some more work piled on top of more work. Now I’m not saying I don’t like the blogging challenge, I really do like it and it’s fun, but it does make it a bit difficult to complete the SBC blog post on time with other work due at the same time.
But anyway I do want to continue with blogging. Plus we do a blog post for every project we complete so I don’t think I can get out of it. I’m kidding, blog posts are a great way to tell a story about what you learnt. I’m excited to see what I learnt from the SBC and put it into my school blog posts!
– Emily ✌️
⏳Woah, well that went quick⏳
Hello peoples! Well what do ya know! Term one is officially over. That went by really quickly. Now in this blog post I’m going to talk about all the videos my class has created this term. I’m not sure if I’m relieved that it’s over or stressed that it just means the next term is starting. But anyway I’m going to do a little reflection on each video we created.
4 Shot Film
Empower learner ~ I have leveraged technology to take an active role in choosing, achieving, and demonstrating competency in my learning goals
Now this video was the first one we made this year. I think we actually did pretty good on it. Although the sound quality could be better and I do wish we did a bit better with the transitions, over all it turned out pretty good for our first video of the year. I was pretty surprised as to our angels, shots, time management and communication because since we made this video within the first two weeks of school (before we had learnt much about film making) it had a great out come. My group did well with communication and time management as well as staying organized with the roles. This was definitely a good way to start off the year
Ghost Town Film
Knowledge constructor ~ I can critically curate a variety of resources using digital tools to construct knowledge, produce creative artifacts, and make meaningful experiences for myself and others
In this video we had to create a short film in this little ghost town. I think this video turned out very well. The making if this video was actually very fun. I think we did a good job with this one. We had a good plan for completing it. We worked together, communication and did a good job with time management. So over all this was a great video. Definitely one of my favourite so far in the year.
Drumheller Documentary
Creative communicator ~ I communicated clearly and expressed myself creatively for a variety of purposes using the platforms, tools, styles, formats, and digital media appropriate to my goals.
This video was a little quick documentary on an exhibit that’s e found interesting or important. We didn’t have time to plan this video because our teachers assigned it to us that day, right after lunch. So we had to quickly find an exhibit we liked and plan, film and edit in just one hour. Yes creating a video in one hour is pretty difficult but I think I managed to pull it off. If I were to do it again I would definitely try and fix the audio and maybe think of a script before so I’m not confused on what I should say. Other then that I would have liked to add some music and maybe a better title. In conclusion I enjoyed making this video, it was a good way to learn the ways of film.
Alberta Video
Innovative designer ~ I use a variety of technologies within a design process to identify and solve problems by creating new, useful, or imaginative solutions
If you have read my other post Alberta 2019 you would know that my class went on a filed study to the Rockies. This was an amazing trip and I had so much fun. The reason we went on that trip was to answer our driving question. How does place impact ______? That blank would be filled in with different people group depending on which group you were in. Mine was wildlife. This made it a bit easier because I love wildlife so much. Through out this whole trip we needed to get lots of videos, pictures, information and interviews so we could create this video. This was an individual assignment that we needed to create. I think I did good with my time management skills and making sure I was on top of my work. It was hard at some points because all my classmates are my friends we got distracted a couple times, but it all worked out great. I think my video had a great turn out. And I’m glad to say I’m proud of it.
Run a Remake Video
Computational thinker ~ I developed and employed strategies for understanding and solving problems in ways that leverage the power of technological methods to develop and test solutions
Now this video was definitely a fun one. If you would want to know more about this project here’s the post so you can check it out yourself. This video took a lot of planning. I think my group did a good job with this video. We needed to work a bit harder on our time management skills and our communication skills, but other then that we accomplished this video on time and got a pretty good mark. I’m excited to do another video similar style to this one in the future.
French Revolution ~ Rap Video
Knowledge constructor ~ I can critically curate a variety of resources using digital tools to construct knowledge, produce creative artifacts, and make meaningful experiences for myself and others
This video was the first of four Revolution videos. Since it was our first it was prefect but it did give a chance to work on the skills we are not great at so we can nail them for future videos. For this particular video we needed to write song lyrics about the French Revolution. This was not very difficult because we had learnt quite a lot about it in class plus my class was reading a book about the French Revolution. After the script was done we needed to film. But you can’t film without a plan. With my group it was a little hard to find time to film because everyone was busy in different days. In the end it all worked out and we got it all finished. And I must say the end result was pretty good, for our time making a rap video that is.
American Revolution ~ Act It Out Video
Innovative designer ~ I use a variety of technologies within a design process to identify and solve problems by creating new, useful, or imaginative solutions
This video was the second one we did about revolutions. Except instead of French Revolution it’s about the American Revolution. After we had completed the other revolution video we kinda had an idea on how to plan. We did much better with our time management and did a great job on our planning. Once we had that all figured out we moved on to filming. We picked a day the worked out for everyone and got it all done. After this video me and my group learned that being on top of things and having a good plan really helps with the video.
Russian Revolution ~ Explain Everything Video
Computational thinker ~ I developed and employed strategies for understanding and solving problems in ways that leverage the power of technological methods to develop and test solutions
Second to last video! Now this video I can’t lie, my group got a little lazy for this one. We didn’t do great on timing and it took us a long time to decide which animation we wanted to do. It did all work out in the end but it was definitely a bumpy ride. It was hard because my whole group didn’t know much about animations and didn’t know how to make them. That definitely made it harder, not Impossible, just hard. But we worked together to learn how to make them and in the ended the video turned out pretty good.
Final French Revolution ~ Act It Out Video
Empowered learner ~ I have leveraged technology to take an active role in choosing, achieving, and demonstrating competency in my learning goals
Final video! This video was once again about the French Revolution. For the last videos of the revolution, we were able to pick any revolution we wanted. My group picked French because we knew the most about it and had the perfect idea on what to do. My group really wanted to up our game with this last video, so we took our time planning out the script, we decided a destination for filming and we talked about costumes because we decided to do the Act It Out! style video. This was definitely one of my favourites because we were very proud of the out come.
I really enjoyed creating all of these videos. Even though it took a lot of good communication, time management, critical thinking and team work without all of those the out come would not be as good. So I’ve learnt that using all these techniques and skills you can create an amazing video. I’m excited to see what I can do with the skills I learnt this term! Can’t wait to see what our teachers have in mind for us next term!
– Emily ✌️