For the past couple of weeks I’ve been reading a book called Atomic Habits, written by James Clear. This book is based around the four laws of behaviour change: cue, craving, response, reward. Each section of the book focuses on these four laws, in the result of replacing your bad habits with good ones. The main message in the book is that, the little steps … Continue reading “A Long Series of Small Wins and Tiny Break Throughs”
Why 1950? After learning all about the fall of WWII in our last unit, as a class, we jumped right into the raging rise of the Beat Generation. As we walked along side the white picket fences of the suburbs, we noticed the prominent dividing line between the house wives, and husbands out on their perfect green lawns, and the beat niks. From here, … Continue reading Cantina Bands, and 50’s Demands
Introduction to Tribalism This unit was launched by the exploration of the meaning of the term tribalism, and what connections it has to our society today, and in the past. Here formed our driving question: “What is the role of tribalism in society” Before we worked towards creating a definition of tribalism for ourselves, and an answer to its role in society, we … Continue reading “Man Produces Evil as Bee Produces Honey”
It’s been quite a while since I’ve posted on my blog, and I’m here now to write all about my opportunity I had to travel to New Mexico early this October. I was slightly confused why we were traveling to New Mexico before we started our trips unit, sure maybe the green chile and breakfast burritos were apart of the appeal, but as my class … Continue reading Balloons, Bombs, and Burritos
The Workplace Risks The first piece of information that we were faced with was, WorkSafe BC’s Lost Youth Video, this is a short documentary featuring four different teenagers telling their stories of their workplace injuries. Some of the statistics that the video started out with were the most eye opening part of the video. Stats such as: “In British Columbia, one young worker is injured … Continue reading How to WorkSafe
Why do you feel you are ready to advance into the next grade level? Why did I choose to write about the projects below? The projects I am about to mention, are all examples of my work shown by category. One of the categories being a subject (Science, Math, Humanites, and Maker), the other being the importance of PLP student characteristics. There were … Continue reading TPOL 2019
No, PGP is not a typo of PLP, it’s a part of it! The Personal Growth Plan means a lot of different things to me, mental and digital organization, planning for the future, if it’s tomorrow or two years from now, or looking at the problems in life through a different lens. Throughout this course I learned how to make my life easier, how to … Continue reading The Cranium Boxes
The mission was to create a machine that turned a hand held generator, to produce energy. Luca and I decided to use the power of wind to our advantage, by building a small windmill. This is my mind map for my the beginning of this project, and the one below is my mind map I made after this project. This is our design for the product. … Continue reading Welcome to the WinderWow!
Who Am I To start off our section of Career Life Education within maker class, we all signed into My Blueprint. My Blueprint is a website that guides you as you figure out your high school, post secondary, and career plans. But before I dove into that topic, I learnt a little bit about myself. But what could a website full of surveys possibly tell … Continue reading So…What Are You Gonna Do When You’re Older?
Introduction of Project + Minorities in Canada We began with the idea of what minorities are in general; then we evolved to brainstorming, what kinds of minorities we know of in Canada. This was the definition that we came up with: a relatively small group of people commonly with a small amount of power or representation. After we had a definition for this word, minority, … Continue reading Canadian Minority Podcast
