If you haven’t read this years Regionals Post, then in order to understand this post, you should probably read that one first. If you have read my post linked above, then here is my experience with Destination Imagination Provincials 2019. My Groups Revisions To anyone who saw my group’s Regionals presentation, it was obvious that our main, and biggest revision, would be our aircraft. Because … Continue reading DI Provincials 2019
How can we figure out which provider is best? Does one plan end up being more expensive than the other? In this project, we will be figuring this all out, as you saw in the title, we will be ussing examples from Telus, Bell, and Virgin Mobile. This is our driving question for the project: Constant rate of change is an esssential attribute of linear … Continue reading Telus, Bell, or Virgin Mobile?
My Final Video Unit End Mind Map Solve problems with persistence and a positive disposition + Apply flexible and strategic approaches to solve problems: While learning this unit, I took notes based on Mr. Gross’s lessons, as well as asking for support from my classmates. By educating myself with different strategies, I was able to find a system to solve the equations that worked best … Continue reading Flow Like Water
What’s DI? As this is my second year in a row of taking part in this tournament, I’ve become a bit more familiar with what it’s all about. Briefly, Destination Imagination is a project in a sense, a project in which you are given a challenge from a category, my team was assigned the technical challenge. Within this challenge, you have a problem to solve, … Continue reading DI Regionals 2019
What is a chemical reaction? Well, that question will be answered within this post, supported by a video and in class labs. To begin with the basics, we made sure that we knew all 6 of the chemical reactions. Acid base neutralization Combustion Single replacement Double replacement Synthesis Decomposition With this small amount of prior knowledge, we created a list of questions around this topic … Continue reading Very Reactive ‘Round the World
The Basis What is the legacy of World War Two in Canada? A loaded question, a question that can only be answered with knowledge of the war and knowledge from someone who has experienced the war in their lifetime. Luckily, I had access to both of these sources during this project. Before the process of creating our answer to this question, we discussed and studied … Continue reading The PLPodcast
Each time I leave for a plp trip, I’m don’t have a solid idea of why we are going to these certain places, like Calgary or Ottawa. It’s only when I return home and reflect, that I realize how much information I took in during the time I was away. Field studies show us that you are learning constantly, wherever you go theres something to … Continue reading Over the Boarder to Find Crazy
How Have I Improved Since My Last MPOL? A couple of the goals I made for myself in ninth grade, one being time management and not letting school takeover. I believe recently with the help of time blocking, I’ve almost completely achieved my goal. For the past couple of years in school, I have been struggling to find a way to keep track of my time, making sure I … Continue reading MPOL 2019
An Introduction Crazy, a word I’ve ought to have said about ten thousand times by now but here I am saying it again. From the very beginning of this unit I thought that the word crazy had many different meanings in different contexts, some of those contexts not being too cheerful. But over the duration of this unit, I realized that it wasn’t a … Continue reading Is it a Label or a Mindset?
Why picnic? Well, it had a nice ring to it, but this title also connects to Maggie and I’s new math game. During the time we had to complete this project we covered many topics and curricular competencies. Here is my unit mind map to show a couple of the topics. The basics of this project was based around the mathematical concept of using physical … Continue reading The Polynomial Picnic
