When a creation doesn’t work, just call it modern art
Comic Cells! Welcome to the last project of grade 8! This project was all about how cells and diseases interact with each other at a cellular level. To show off our learning we created a comic book that goes through some of the things that happen when a disease enters your body. As always you…
For this project, the goal was to create an object in a design software that was maximized for either Surface area or Volume. For example, you could create a solar panel for maximum surface area so it could absorb more sunlight, or create a water bottle for maximum volume so it can hold more water.…
Chemistry Coding! As you might have been able to guess from the name, this project was all about atoms, matter and coding with the driving question being “How can the behaviour of matter be explained by the Kinetic Molecular theory and Atomic theory”. The final product of this project was a Scratch coded game or…
Welcome to the last project of quarter 3. This project was called “The More Things Change” and was all about European Settlement, and the Fur Trade. As always, the project had a driving question, this one being “What did European Settlement mean for all the people involved” To answer this question, we did a lot…
Destination Imagination! Destination Imagination, also know as DI, is an international tournament in which groups of students try to solve challenges using communication, collaboration, critical thinking and creative skills. This was my very first year doing DI, but because of the Covid 19 pandemic, it looked a lot different then what it was in previous…
Ahoy matey We have finished another project! This project is called Argh Matey. It was a fairly short project that lasted only around two weeks, and I’m here to tell you all about it. Argh Matey was all about the Age of Exploration, and of course pirates. We started off the project by watching the…
It’s finally the end of the student blogging challenge, and it really bugs me that we are ending on week 11. Not week 10, not week 12, but week 11. WHYY? This week, we are reflecting on the past ten blogging challenges, and talking about how this blog is going to look in the…
Hello! It’s Week 10, of the Student Blogging Challenge, and I’ve just realized that it’s not actually week 10, but actually week five because we do two blogs per week so I should really stop calling them week 10. Anyways, spring break is right around the corner, and this week I get to talk about…
Welcome back to day 9 of the Student Blogging Challenge. Can you believe we are nearly done? This week’s challenge is all about celebrations and holidays. Holidays are amazing. For a lot of us, they hold some of the greatest memories that we have, and they are always something to look forward to. So I’m…
Hello, and welcome back to the blog of the Nolan. We have finally finished our first big project of quarter 3. This project was called “How it started, How it’s going,” after the meme that was popularized during the summer of 2020. If you have never heard of this meme, it’s basically a meme that…