When I was little, I used to wonder what my dad actually did when he went to work for the day. Well today I got a chance to find out. Today was take your kid to work day at our school, and I was told to make a video showing what a day in my […]
Action! In class, we watched a short horror film called “Run”, and had to remake our own versions of it in groups. We were trying to get it as close to the original as possible, which includes shots, angles, timing, sound, etc. Original Video: My group’s first try went pretty well. Our sounds matched the […]
Crystal blue lakes, huge Rocky Mountains, cool white glaciers. That’s what I think of when I remember Alberta. In September, we started a new project in humanities on the geography of the west. Our driving question is ‘how does the geography of the west shape who we are?’ To answer this question, we decided to […]
“Action!” I heard that word too many times to count throughout this project. Few minutes of acting and filming turned into hours of editing. “How might I use moving images to tell a story?” That is our driving question that we were trying to answer for Maker. The assignment was for us to make 4 […]
Now that I am going into grade 9 of PLP, I need to prepare. To help me do that, I was assigned summer learning to get me ready for this coming school year. I was told to create a goal keeper on book creator. My teachers provided me a book to download and read to […]
Over the last few weeks in science, we have been studying what is on and under the surface of the ocean floor. We learned about continental drift and lines of evidence for Keystone 1, then we had to make a GIF about continental drift for Keystone 2. The for Keystone 3 we had to film […]
POL Declaration 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 […]
Last semester, we went through a lot of time effort to make the Winter Exhibition happen, and it was very chaotic but still fun. So of course we had to do it all again this semester with the Spring Exhibition! Our driving question for this exhibition was “How does advertising persuade, sell, and influence society?” […]
Recently, I went to Oregon Portland for a field study trip as part of PLP Grade 8. We visited many good restaurants, and significant landmarks such as the Astoria Column and the Yaquina Head Lighthouse. I enjoyed my experiences from everywhere I went, and learned many things while I was at Oregon. One of the […]
Over past few weeks in Humanities, we have been learning about colonization in Canada. To show our learning, as the final product for this unit we had to make an AR Maker video talking about colonization with a group of classmates. In Keystone 1 we chose which group of people to research, and gathered all […]
