We have reached the end… The end of this project that is. It’s been a while since my last Humanities post, but here we are wrapping up our last Humanities project of the year. This project was a deep dive into the contrasting narratives of World War 1. The driving question was, “How can we […]
🍁Canadian Nationalism and Building Board Games!
Hey, world! Today I’m going to be talking to you about Canada, more specifically, Canadian Nationalism. So what is Nationalism? And how can we make Canadian nationalism board games? Well, you’re about to find out. Keep reading! We launched into this project with a quick research task about a Canadian symbol- whichever one you like […]
We Are The Moth: Slam Poetry And The Industrial Revolution
Hey y’all! Welcome back to G’s blog! It’s been a couple weeks since I finished my Industrial Revolution project with a slam! A slam poem that is. Our more recent humanities project, Full Steam Ahead, was a fun combination of the Industrial Revolution and exploring different types of writing. I’m really proud of the work […]
MPOL 2023🎯
Already halfway through grade 9! You know what that means! It’s time to reflect on my growth as a learner in the first half of the year! Yep, you guessed it: time for another Mpol (Midyear Presentation of Learning). Let’s begin! Declaration of learning: “Thank you for coming to my presentation of learning. I am […]
🎢The Rizzard Of Oz
A new rollercoaster for Screamorama Amusement Park just got approved for further engineering, development and construction!! This is exciting. My creative design team designed and created a working prototype of this rollercoaster, to pitch it to the CEO’s of Screamorama (aka the teachers). There was about a dozen rollercoaster pitches, and ours was the first […]
Avatar, Old-Growth Forests and Winter Exhibition 2022
Wow! I made a documentary film! And, we had an avatar themed exhibition. How do the two relate? Well, you’re about to find out! We started this project with a movie. The movie was Avatar (2009), which was apparently the second highest grossing film of all time behind Gone with the Wind (1939), and I […]
Storm The Barricades
How did revolutions bring down empires and change societies around the world? Welcome back! For this project we dove into revolutions of the past, specifically The Russian Revolution, the French Revolution, the American Revolution and the Haitian revolution. The original plan was to put your chosen historical revolution on trial, to determine if the revolution […]
Life As We Know It!!
What is life on Earth? How do living things sustain life? How do we achieve genetic diversity in living things? Well, lucky you, we pondered all of these question in our latest science project, about biology. This post isn’t like a regular summative project post, because to sum up most of my learnings, I made […]
Let’s Start a Revolution!!
Once upon a time I lived in a kingdom far far away. In this nation, the society was divided into 4 social classes; including the king and royals, the law enforcement (Nobility), the merchants (Store Owners) and the peasants. Each had a different hierarchy status, living conditions and wages. The rules and laws were imposed […]
Vibrant Goals and Vibrant Videos!
Hold up! Let me just get my videographer glasses on. Ok, all good. Now I can see like a videographer! This helped me create 4 vibrant videos through the course of my most recent project. This maker project took me about 1 month to complete, from early October to early November. To kill two birds […]