Month: October 2025

Looking back: What was the most powerful thing you learned while creating this project?

The most powerful thing I’ve learned was understanding the impact the government in the church really had upon the indigenous groups and understanding how it originally was meant for something good, but it was turned into something bad very fast.

The process: What was the hardest challenge you faced as a team or as an individual, and how did you overcome it? What aspect of the work supported your learning.

The hardest thing I had to understand was having sympathy for the people who were involved on both sides, understanding that the government thought they were doing something good and understanding why the indigenous were so hurt by what happened.

Your growth: What new skills (technical, research, creative, or teamwork) did you develop through this project?

I understand how to make a mind map better than how to make one connect to all the different categories we made my categories were government, churches values, community, and culture. Having all these different categories, important to understand and look back in the research we did to what the indigenous experienced before and after residential schools. Through this, we could understand the atrocities that happened and make sure that you do not happen again to any group of people in Canada.

Beyond the project: How has this changed the way you think about history, community, or our role in reconciliation?

I think the biggest thing that changed in how I think was understanding how recent the residential schools were for the most part I thought residential schools were a thing in the past that happened a long time ago that we were learning about the most part it’s not really true. There is a lot of residential schools that were everywhere. I think our role in reconciliation is understanding what truly happened and trying our best to make sure it does not happen again. Doing our best to make sure that the indigenous communities know that this was wrong and that we are trying to fix what happened even if it can never be fully fixed. 

This project was about the Manhattan Project. If you don’t know what the Manhattan Project was it was a project to make an atomic bomb so they could use it against Japan. In this project, we had to make an animated explainer video that explains what the Manhattan project is in the importance of it. We had to come up with a question my question was specifically “How did the Japanese view Americans in the aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima?” we had to have an expert to confirm that our information was correct on what we were writing about. 

To answer my question I’d understand how Japanese viewed Americans after the bombing of Hiroshima, but to do that I had to explain the lead up to the bombing of Hiroshima in my video.  we had to make a project pitch to explain what we were gonna do for the project and what our main question was. We also talk about a research during this project, so we had to make something called a zettelkasten just to organize all your notes for the project our notes were on lectures that the teacher gave Oppenheimer movie and the book Hiroshima. We had to make notes for all of these and compile it into a Zettlkasten.

For the next thing we had to make  it was a storyboard, explaining how our video will be laid out and how our video will look and what we’re going to describe and make. Then we had to make our first draft of our animated explainer showing what we had so far and what our video will look like at the end. Then we handed in our final animated explainer to show what we’ve completed and to show to the teachers that our video is done.

Here is my video