Julia’s Journey

A guide to my learning

Category: Science

Don’t Worry, BEE Happy! 🐝

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On June 18, 2025

In Science

Don’t worry, BEE happy!!

What did we do this year for our spring exhibition? Read on to find out…

I had an absolute blast this year during spring exhibition prep, and presenting at it as well. We did something that we’ve never done before – Science!! 

Leading into this exhibition, we learned all there is to know about pollinators. Bats, butterflies, bees, hummingbirds, and plants – these all help our environment and impact  our planet in various ways. 

How can we support and protect local pollinators to ensure healthy ecosystems in our community?

Pollinators have a huge impact on our world, and its essential to protect them. Without pollinators, we wouldn’t have the same lives we do right now. One out of three bites we take are because of pollinators. There are many ways to support and protect pollinators, but the biggest thing we can do is to keep planting flowers, plants, etc.. because it’s important that pollinators have thing to pollinate. Things like hummingbird feeders, bee hives, and lots of plants contribute to the pollination population growing. 

All There is to Know About Pollinators

Pollination is the transfer of pollen from the male part of the flower called the anther, to the female part of the flower called the stigma. Pollination is a very important step in the sexual reproduction of plants. The transfer of pollen is crucial for fertilization, where gametes from the pollen come together with the female gametes in the ovule, which eventually leads to the creation of new plants. 

Pamphlet

For our exhibition, we had to create multiple interactive elements. The pamphlet we made had made taught the public more information about pollinators, and what the importance of it was. 

Food web

In addition to creating a pamphlet, we also created a food-web that showed the interconnectedness of our ecosystems, and how each animal operates with the others in nature. 

Call to action

As well as the pamphlet and food web, we also completed a call to action which taught the public a bit more about why pollination is important and what we can do to help in our communities.

Interactive element

For our interactive element, we did a colour by number! You spun our wheel, and the colour you got was the one you painted in on our canvas. If you were lucky and you spun one of the three brownie spaces, you got to enjoy a yummy treat!

How can we help?

There are many ways we can help pollinators in our area. The best way is to add as many native plants as possible to gardens around the neighbourhood. Planting native pants instead of non native plants is best because they support local ecosystems, and usually require less maintenance than non native species.

Conclusion

Pollinators are crucial to our existence. They play a vital role in keeping our ecosystems intact. Pollinators clean the air, stabilize the dirts, and support other animals in the wild. The goal of animals, and plants is to make seeds, eggs, or to become pregnant to bring the next generation into our world. 

I really enjoyed the spring exhibition this year, we learned so much about pollinators, and their job in our lives.

I will be posing a lot in the next week, so keep your eyes peeled!

Thank you so much for reading! 

ChemHistory 🧬

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On May 2, 2025

In Science

What impacts do elements and compounds have on history and modern day society? 

Elements have shaped our world in many different ways, both negative and positive. Fossil fuels and green house gases are some negative ways that elements and compounds effect the environment, which shapes modern day society. Green house gases are gases in the atmosphere that trap heat. Fossil fuels are natural substances left over from plants and animals that had died millions of years ago. The negative impacts of fossil fuels include; a non renewable energy source, which means time will come when it will run out. Pollution is another way Fossil fuels contribute to harming the environment. Pollution gets released into the air and it harms the environment.

Elements and Compounds

We first began the project by beginning to learn about elements and compounds. We handed in a paragraph about the significance on an element. I chose Xenon. This is significant to me not just because I think it’s a cool element, but because my dads company in called xenon! I researched facts about Xenon, the background of it, and how it impacts our world today. This was all very interesting information to take in and it really made me realize that we need to conserve it because it is very scarce and can be found in small amounts of air. We learned about Bohr and Louis diagram which are really interesting. A Bohr diagram shows an atom as the nucleus containing protons and neutrons, with the electrons orbiting at various distances from the nucleus. A lewis diagram is a simple way to show the valence shell electrons in a molecule. 

Ionic Compounds + Polyatomic Ions + Transition metals

We started by learning all about the periodic table, and learned valuable information such as the atomic number, the symbols, and the atomic mass. Ms. Kadi then walked us through how to transfer the charge of an element to make it even with the other one. We did a ton of practice to make sure everyone understood every little thing about these 3 ares, because in our coming years, this is valuable information to know and be confident with.

Final Product

The outcome of learning about all of this was to create a piece of art using cyanotype and using UV rays to then develop the art. To get the feel for cyanotype, we practiced with paper and some things we found outside such as some leafs, plants or flowers. 

I decided to switch my element from Xenon to Helium because it has a more significant role in our world, and is a little bit more interesting. Although a hot air balloon is not made of Helium, my lovely teacher let me make my art with hot air balloons, because it would look more interesting than regular old balloons you can buy from Safeway.

This is the paragraph I worked on and presented at our mini exhibition:

The Highs And Lows Of Helium

By Julia

Helium is quite an interesting element, it has many positive and negative qualities on the world; lets find out some more about it! Helium has qualities that contribute a lot to our modern day society.  Helium can be used in the medical world, manufacturing electronics, diving with a tank, scientific research and more! It’s great helium can help with all these things, but that got me thinking – we only have so much helium right? The answer is yes, we are trying to reduce our helium use because it is a non renewable natural source, but, we can help by exploring new resources, using alternatives, and using the reserves countries have set aside. Helium is an important factor in many places, but if we want to to keep using it, we need to conserve it and use it scarcely. 

Reflection

This project we just completed in Science 9, ChemHistory, was quite valuable, especially because it is some of these elements that are destroying our planet today. I learned so much that I can use in the future, and I appreciate that it was taught to me in a way that I could understand and come back to in future years. Throughout this project, I have really realized how big of an impact Science in general, but really just the little things can have on our world and shaping it to make a modern society. 

Thank you for reading about my ChemHistory journey!

Watt The Heck!? 🧬

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On February 12, 2025

In Science

Throughout the last month or two in Science we were learning about electrical circuits, and sustainability. To demonstrate our learning for this project we created board games! These games displayed our knowledge of electrical circuits as well as our ability to close a circuit so the light brightens up the room!

Driving Question

How does electricity shape our society and how can we generate it more sustainably?

Our society relies on electricity much more than we think. We are constantly turning on lights, running the oven or microwave, or charging our devices. These things we sometimes take advantage of; why wouldn’t we? But when these day to day uses are taken away from us, what do we do? We had a few power outages before winter break, where some houses, including mine didn’t have power for around 2 days. During this time, I really thought about how much we rely on light, power and especially wifi! Everyone just takes it for granted, because its used for day to day things – video calls, school, work, charging electric cars. 

We can reduce electricity use by turning off lights and when our devices are fully charged, unplugging them. Using minimal air conditioning and heating also has a big impact on saving electricity. Solar power (using solar panels), wind mills, and hydropower are the main sources we can use to make energy more sustainable.

Sustainability Infographic

I really enjoyed creating this infographic because I learned more about how I can help save energy not only within my home, but in other places as well! I chose to learn about Hydropower for my Infographic because I felt like it could be interesting to research, and I also didn’t know a lot about Hydropower. But the big question we were answering is, ‘is Hydropower sustainable?’ Here’s my answer to that:

Hydropower is sustainable. Many rivers and streams get fed into the reservoirs and man made lakes, so the water supply is constantly being renewed. A Hydropower plant is not affecting the water from the environment because when the water is done being used for energy it returns downstream and continues its path through rivers, streams, and eventually to the ocean. Hydropower produces no air pollutants and has low greenhouse gas emissions, so Hydropower is sustainable!

Electricity Board Game

I found the learning in this building knowledge was difficult because of the materials we used. We experimented with making little lights light up with batteries. Once we had gotten the basics buckled down, we could move onto the bigger, better things. Our assignment was to create a board game to demonstrate our knowledge of electrical circuits. 

To make this game, we needed to draw an image, tinfoil the inside of our shoebox, and then add the wires and batteries to make the light illuminated. I struggled with lighting mine up, the tinfoil got messy and it fell apart. The good news is I understood the concept, so I could help others with making theirs light up!

Reflecting back on this project, we handed in a comment to Showbie what electrical concepts we used to make our game, and if it worked or not. I struggled to get Shreks nose to light up, but I learned a lot about electrical circuits, electrons, protons, and neutrons.

Conclusion

Our society relies on electricity, and everybody takes it for granted. If we could lift our heads up and follow an action plan to make energy more sustainable it would make an immense difference in our lives. Turning off lights, short showers, unplugging devices, are all simple things that could make a difference in our lives. I stride to practise these things because with climate change, green house gases and fossil fuels, we need to change the world sooner rather than later. People need to realize that these things are important soon, otherwise things will never change for the better.

Thanks for reading, have a great day!

Julia

Time to tPOL!!!

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On June 18, 2024

In Humanities, Maker, Science

Statement of Learning

“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 listening and for offering feedback that I can use to improve as a learner.”

I have grown and changed so much throughout grade 8, and overall I loved my first year at seycove. PLP was a new program for me. Despite hearing some things from Charlie, I didn’t know too much about how it worked, the learning we were going to be doing, and how I would like it. I am really enjoying my time in High School and PLP, and for now it is a perfect fit for me. 

In my mPOL I set goals for myself and reflected on my learning plan, and in my tPOL post I will be talking about my year in grade 8 as a whole, talking about a few selected success behaviours and setting some goals and things I hope to achieve in grade 9!

RESILIENCE

In the category Agency, I chose Resilience. An example of resilience would be working through DI (destination Imagination). DI was an interesting experience.  I’ve done DI before, where we got first place, but this was nothing like doing it before. When I got my group, I was thinking ok, we can do this, but oh boy was I ever wrong. We did our plans, and got our story sorted out, but we still had a script to write, costumes to make and find, and props to build. We dedicated 2 pro D days to making our props which turned out really well! The only problem was the DI competition was a week away, and we needed to practice and figure out the other small details. We ended up spending long days at school, and the weekend memorizing lines. I think the competition went relatively well, although if we had more time I think our story could’ve evolved and been a little better. Over the course of finishing our performance I got frustrated a couple times. Yes, sometimes I like things to be done my way, but that isn’t always the answer. I think that when I get frustrated I tell myself things that need to get done, rather than making and doing unnecessary things that aren’t very helpful to my group. I need to focus on bouncing back and spreading out the work so that everyone can be successful in my group. For me, showing resilience is being flexible with my peers, listening to their ideas and communicating my thoughts openly. In the end, DI went ok. If my group used our time better and bounced ideas off each other earlier I believe we could have done better. You can read about my first DI experience here.

ENGAGEMENT 

The next success behaviour I am going to talk about is engagement. Compared to the beginning of the year, I have gotten so much better at class discussions and participating. At the beginning of the year, I felt like I knew what to say and that it was at least somewhat right, but I didn’t want to mess up or say the wrong thing, so I didn’t say anything at all. This was a huge mistake because as I spoke up more, and became more confident with my ideas and thoughts, I got more things correct, or it was a good idea. Now when a question is asked, most of the time, I can shoot my hand up and present my idea, and be confident in myself. Of course, my thoughts aren’t always right, and I have gotten better at accepting that. Sometimes I’m thinking along the right lines, but it just doesn’t quite fit, or sometimes I am 100% on the wrong track, and need to rethink everything. Being wrong and correcting your answer to make it right shows learning because you can show what you learned by explaining why your answer is wrong. I can show my engagement through my blog posts and even in my mPOLS and tPOLS! Here are some examples of my blog posts:

Consequences of Colonization

All About AR Maker

All About Atoms

COMMUNICATION AND COLLABORATION 

For my third and final success behaviour I chose communication and collaboration. 

With teachers: I have become so much better at communicating with my teachers openly. As I learned about my teachers, and got to know them, I became aware that I am not wrong to ask questions. Asking questions shows you are engaged and aware of what’s happening around you. I ask my teachers questions in person and on iMessage, whenever I need help because its not wrong to need help.

With peers: In group projects, I feel as if I am a trusted and responsible group member. I will do my part in the project, and accept and give feedback. I think I demonstrated this best at the End Of The World project, where my group was sometimes off task, and needed some reminders to hop back on and stay as engaged as possible. 

With Technology: I believe I am responsible with my iPad in class, and I am always doing what is expected of me. I stay on task, and do my best to get my work done in class. I had some trouble in the earlier stages of the year, when messages would become distracting, but now I can block those out, put on DND (do not disturb) and focus on the task at hand.

SCIENCE

I learned so much in Science this year that was all new. Last year we didn’t get to do fun experiments where we could involve our hands and be creative in new ways. Where as this year we get to balance doing fun experiments with learning cool information to then using that information and making our projects with it. The project we just finished doing was called Small But Mighty, and in this project we were taught all about cells in our bodies which we demonstrated through our immune system character cards. I was really proud of how I took the feedback I got on my field journal and made it better. I struggled the most with making my observations precise and accurate. 

Another project we completed in science was our scratch video game. This game was another example of how I showed resilience. I found it very frustrating that scratch kept glitching and game deleted several times, but I kept at it and eventually I got it. Coding is something I can continue to work on, and the more I do it the better I will get at it.

HUMANITIES

Humanities has been an up and down subject for me all year. Some projects I thoroughly enjoyed, and some I disliked. In life, you can’t choose it all, so I dealt with it! We have done so many projects this year from writing songs to presenting to grade 11s! The most recent project we did, the Spring Exhibition, was the one I chose, because I think it shows my success behaviours I chose the most. The project on the spring exhibition all started with our field study along the Oregon Coast. As we went, little by little we added to our ‘adventure book’ which was a document of the activities and things we did. Other than the book, our project was all about advertising. We were split up into groups for the Spring Exhibition and my group got the theme Discovery and Learning. We were to represent the theme of our group in our advertisements about the Oregon Coast. I love that everyone in my group collaborated and contributed to our dazzling final result. I think our presentation at the exhibition turned out great and it is definitely something to be proud of.

 

 

Over the course of the year, worldview is always something we put into consideration. ‘How does this affect your worldview?’ ‘How does this project influence your worldview?’ These were questions we were peppered with and they will always and forever stick with me. It helps me put myself into other people’s shoes. The Oregon trip influenced my worldview because all the little stops and stores and jobs people do can change a persons mind.

WHAT HAS HELPED ME GROW AS A LEARNER?

2 small things have helped me become a better learner in and out of school.

  1. Attending Tutorial 
  2. Using The Things App

PREPARING FOR GRADE 9

Looking back on my grade 8 year, I have learned so much about how PLP works, how my teachers teach, and how my peers work. Although grade 8 is a difficult year, I love that I now know that getting revisions is ok, and learning from your mistakes is great, because you are a better learner from it. 

A goal I am setting myself for next year is being more efficient with my time. I feel as though I spend more time on my work than I really need to. To make it become good to great takes time, but not so much that I am only adding little things at a time. 

I feel as though I am ready for next year, and I hope that it is just as fun or even more so than this year! I have become more confident in myself as a learner and a leader in the classroom, so I hope this shows through next year, and the following years as well.

Thank you so much for listening to my tPOL!! Have a great summer!!! ☀️⛱️

Small But Mighty 🧪

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On June 10, 2024

In Science

How Does Our Knowledge Of Cell Biology Contribute To Public Health?

The driving question for this blog post is ‘How does our knowledge of cell biology contribute to public health?’ I have learned so much from this project including how to make a Hypothesis and Prediction, testing and checking our experiment, asking a question and then experimenting, and reflecting upon the process! We have also explored the wonders of cells and different varieties of vaccines. Despite all the thoughts about vaccines, vaccines are good for you, and they prove to have worked against multiple diseases. These are all valuable lessons that I can keep in my brain for later!

Asking a Question

When you start an experiment, the first thing you do is create a thoughtful question that will get an answer when you finish the experiment. You also think of a prediction and a hypothesis which you then follow up at the end of the experiment. Despite what most people think, a hypothesis and a prediction are 2 different things. A hypothesis is an educated guess, where as a prediction is a more detailed and informative guess.

Cells

Before we started our immune system character cards, we needed to learn about the cells we were going to write about. We used window notes, and a book that Ms. Kadi read to learn about the T-Cells (which have different types of cells called the memory T-Cells, killer T-Cells, and the helper T-Cells.) In addition to these cells we learned about B-Cells

Petri Dish Experiments 🧫 

Previous to this experiment we had learnt all about bacteria so we were all ready. We were told to swab one or 2 surfaces and compare the bacteria. I chose to do the desk in my science classroom. One swab I used hand sanitizer and one I used soap. The idea was to see which product helped kill more germs. My results were surprising because the hand sanitizer pulled ahead and looked like it had less growth on the Petri dish than the soap did.

Field Journal  

This is the field journal I created to keep track of my results, hypothesis, prediction, updates and how much growth was on the Petri dish. I am proud of my layout in this keynote because the theme is consistent and I worked hard to make sure it looked good but also wasn’t too distracting from the information.

Immune System Cell Cards

The next thing we focused on in this project was learning all about the adaptive immune system. I explained some of the cells earlier, but these cards we could make our own! We drew characters and then labeled them as a cell and explained their function in the body. The cell cards were a fun way of showing our knowledge about the cells. I liked how making these cards not only taught me about the cells but also made it fun so I enjoyed doing it!

Vaccine Media Campaign

Why don’t people get vaccinated? This is a well asked question and there are multiple answers our whole class came up with. A few are: The vaccine was released too quickly, can cause side effects, caused autism, religious reasons and micro chips are in them tracking you. Some of these reasons don’t seem real or like they would happen but some people are actually worried and scared about these. Everyone should pay attention to the important articles released by the government or doctors that give real information to make sure people don’t get worked up over nothing. This is why we are learning about this in Science class because its right to be educated! 

In this assignment we were to create 3 media campaigns that showed our research and knowledge about what we had learned. My partner was Ella, and we chose to research the micro chips one. People thought micro chips were being put into us to track and keep an eye on us. Here are our 3 designs:

 

 

 

How Does Our Knowledge Of Cell Biology Contribute To Public Health?

Before learning all about the immune system, and cells I didn’t know anything about these things! That’s the great thing about learning something new, its never boring because you don’t know what’s coming next. With all this new information I know how my body deals with diseases, vaccines and bacterias. When you show symptoms to viruses, it is actually your immune system trying to fight off the virus. Although I am now educated on these things, not everyone is and that results in anti-vaccers. Knowledge can affect people’s views on many things and this is one of them. It is completely your choice if you don’t get vaccinated against Covid-19, but the vaccine certainly helps protect you from the virus. The more you learn and know about vaccines the healthier and more knowledgeable you will be. 

Reflection

I have learned so many things in this unit that I will not forget my whole life. I love that we get to evolve ourselves in learning about topics like this because it helps us stay healthy and share our learning and knowledge with other people to educate themselves. As well as learning in my head, I acquired some life skills in this project such as communicating with my partner and being open to her ideas and not just mine. 

Thanks for reading my post, and keep your eyes peeled for more! 

FIRST MPOL EVER

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On April 8, 2024

In Humanities, Maker, Science

Hello! These are my parents, Katie and Ian Mortimer. 

Statement of Learning

“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 listening and for offering feedback that I can use to improve as a learner.”

Maker

Let’s start with Maker. Maker has been my favourite PLP class so far this year. I love art, and involving myself in creative and unique ways, and having fun while experimenting. I had 3 teachers for Maker this year; Mr. Harris, Ms. McWilliam, and Ms. Kadi.

The very first project we did in Maker was Becoming a PLP Learner. I enjoyed this project  because I acquired so much useful information. We learned how to use multiple apps such as Keynote, Notability, Pages, WordPack, and some small details on other apps. I think my favourite app that we learned about would be WordPack. You put text into a box, and then you can choose your shape and colour. The app configures the words to go with the shape and colour which ends up looking really cool. This is mine that I made. We all thought of words to describe ourselves, and then made our own personal WordPack.

Memoji

Making my Memoji was my favourite part of this project. I enjoyed this, because I got to display  myself through an emoji. When I was creating it, I contemplated carefully how well the stickers went together, and the depth and perception of how they looked on my laptop. I acquired skills such as animating my stickers in keynote by making them spin, bounce, drop, burn fire, and more. 

Success and FAILS

I think my design on my final presentation was very me. I included drawing skills I learned from one of our other Maker projects, Finding Fun with Drawing. I decorated the pages, and made sure the patterns and background carried throughout my entire presentation. I think I was proficient in this area, because of my marks, but also because I tried really hard and participated with class discutions. 

One thing I believe I struggled with was time management and productivity. I tend to leave things to do last minute, and when I do finally get to them, I spend lots of time working on it when I really could have done it earlier, and I would be less stressed. My goal for this in the future, is to start right away when the assignment is addressed to us, and then I will have more time over the days to making sure it gets done to the best of my ability. 

Science

I just started science in the second semester. My teacher, Ms. Kadi is awesome. She explains things really well, and is super enthusiastic about teaching us. We have only completed one project so far, Mind over Matter. 

Mind over Matter has been a great experience for me, because we leaped into the deep end,  and involved ourselves with learning about atoms, physical and chemical properties, determining mass, and how to use scratch. We also got to learn how to use microscopes and the different parts of them. We all got to make our own sliders, which fit under the microscope so we can look at them. I used dirty water, and found little critters in the murky water. 

Our final project for science was to create and code your very own video game on scratch. Scratch can be extremely glitchy and finicky. I started by making a plan for my game, and handed it in. When I got the go ahead, I started to explore with scratch and tried to figure out how it all worked.  My game deleted multiple times, which was quite frustrating. In the end, I got scratch to cooperate with me, and I finished my drop game. I showed my knowledge through the game, because you need to collect all the different parts of an atom. Once you get to 50, you move onto a page that explains the different parts of the atom in some detail. 

Play my video game here!

Success and FAILS

I think I succeeded in making my game easy to play, yet still complicated at its core. I spent a ton of time creating my scratch game, Atom Drop, and I think it payed off really well. I am proud of what I have created because it displays how much new information I learned, but also because I really like how my game turned out. I used my coding skills, which were newly learnt, and put them to work by coding an entire game! I think I was proficient in Science because I was intent to learn, and I payed attention to what Ms. Kadi was saying.

One thing I think I could’ve improved on in this project would be my resilience. I got quite frustrated when my game kept deleting my progress, I wanted to make an easier game to code. Instead of thinking ‘I need to make sure I can code an easy game so it doesn’t delete, my mindset should have been, ‘okay, it deleted again. How can I figure out a way to make sure my entire game is saved?’ My goal in the future, would be to persevere and keep going, even if I face some hardships.

Humanities

Humanities has been an interesting block for me. I quite enjoy some of the content we learned about, while other things I couldn’t absorb as well. One of the things that really stood out to me, was the winter exhibition and the lead up to it. Previously to the winter exhibition we learned about the Renaissance and medieval periods in time. Our assignment was to create a triptych representing three time periods; the Renaissance, medieval, and present day. We were to then put these into a tableau, which we would present at the winter exhibition. We were put into groups for this, and I felt as though Ella and I were great leaders in the group. We made sure our group members were on task, everyone was contributing a bit, and practicing! Our props was my favourite part about our entire presentation because we spent hours making them, and to see everyone saying they liked them was quite rewarding. 

Success and FAILS

I enjoyed the journey throughout the winter exhibition. Our group grew together, and we really bonded during the process. I liked how we worked together to make 3 tableaus into 3 amazing works of art. My proudest moment was the very last presentation we did, when my teachers and Mrs. Best were watching. During the contemporary, everyone was like, ‘wow, it looks great’, and ‘all that work turned into something great.’ This was nice to hear after all the hard work we had put in. I think I am proficient in Humanities because I am present in conversations, and I share my ideas openly even if I am not always correct. I also have ✅ in my assignments. 

The biggest struggle for me was getting everything done in time. Time management can sometimes be hard for me. We had our ideas, but we didn’t start getting together costumes and building props until the last couple weeks. We were even still building a prop on the morning of the event. My goal for the future is to start as soon as possible after the project has been assigned, because it will cause less stress for me leading up to the due date. 

Learning Plan

At the beginning of the year, I completed a learning plan, which shows what I am good at, what I can grow in, and how I can get support in these areas. 

           

How Can I Grow as a Learner?

I have talked about some things from multiple areas, but I think the ones I need work in are preparation, self-regulation, and communication and collaboration. Some areas I have shown improvement in are attending to tutorial more often, and asking for help when I need it. I like things done my way, there is no other way of saying it. I can grow by using other peoples ideas, and making sure everyone gets a turn to talk. Another one of my goals for the future, is to know when enough is enough. Sometimes I spend too much time working, when it’s good enough. I really want to do well and achieve extending, so I need to put quality work in instead of just work. Making good use of time is a big thing for me, because I am a very busy person, and I need to use my time well. I have one big goal that I am setting for the rest of the year, that I will reflect on in my TPOL. I want to achieve extending is some, if not all of my PLP subjects. This is really important to me because it sets my standards for next year, and to keep pushing myself as a learner.

Thank you!

Thank you so much for reading my script for my very first MPOL! I spent lots of time working on this, and so thank you for listening to my yap!

All About Atoms!

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On March 11, 2024

In Science

Have you run out of games to play? Try my game, I made it myself!

These past few weeks, my science class has taken on the project of using Scratch to make our very own games about atoms.

Try my game

Atom Drop

Atoms

Before we started this project, we had learned all about atoms. We focused on the structure, and then the background of atoms. We talked about who discovered them, and what different scientists theories were. We did lab experiments, and took notes on what we discovered. We used math to figure out the mass of objects, and we even got to use iodine!

Project

Our big project for this section of Science was making a video game in Scratch that displayed our knowledge about atoms. We handed in a plan for our game on Showbie, and then got the  go-ahead to start coding. The first couple days we got to play around with the site, and figure out things on our own. I then started to code my game. Scratch was very frustrating because my game I started deleted a few times. I had to start again, which cost me even more time, digging into time I like to spend playing sports, friends, and family.

Scratch

 At first when I started I didn’t really understand how Scratch worked. After 20 minutes of trying to figure out my very complicated game, I realized it wasn’t going to happen. A game might seem simple, but as soon as you try and code it yourself you will realize that, nope, it is super hard. It was all okay though, because I quickly adjusted to making a simple atom drop game, and my life suddenly seemed good again! I used a YouTube video to help me, because this is the first time I have ever used Scratch, and it was hard. The video explained the different steps really well, and it helped me a lot.

Making My Game

My game is a drop game. You need to collect all the different parts of an atom; the protons and  neutrons inside the nucleus, the electron orbits, and the electrons. My game is coded, so when you collect 50 parts of the atoms, you go onto another screen that explains all of the parts in detail, and tells you a but about the parts. In an atom, the various parts are neutrons, protons, electrons, nucleus, and the electron orbits.  

Definitely go play my game! It is fun, I made it myself, and it’s fun! Go enjoy yourself!

Reflection

Reflecting back on this project, I felt many different emotions. I was angry because my game deleted a few times, happy because it’s done, and excited for other to try it! I am glad I got to experience this project, because I think it was a good area for me to grow in. I always like things to go my way, but that doesn’t always happen. I loved playing all my friends games, and I hope they like mine. I worked very hard on my game, and assignments, so I really look forward to hearing my critique in this project. I am proud of what I have accomplished, and I am grateful for all of those who have helped me make my game! Thanks for reading my blog post All About Atoms!

Keep your eyes peeled for the next one! 

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