I want to start off by saying thank you to preschool teachers. I spent my day at Tiddlycove Montessori school, and I don’t know how the teachers do it! They are so patient and understanding, and although the kids are very cute, they are a lot to handle. So thank you, thank you to my … [Read more…]
Alberta was filled with hiking and learning! And yes I did put them in order of what we did more! In total we hiked around 40 kilometres. Now, this post is about what we learned not about the large amount of hiking we did. We went to Alberta to answer the driving question, How has … [Read more…]
Hello and welcome back to my blog! This is my first ever blog in grade 9 and so far it feels the same! This project is all about the videos we made in Alberta, plus one video we did at home! We had one and a half weeks to film and edit 4 videos! Now … [Read more…]
Hello and welcome to my TPOL. “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 … [Read more…]
This years spring exhibition was called pathways. The goal was to show the path that we took to achieve the final product. In this project we were designing an advertisement for a business in Oregon. When we went to Oregon (See more about Oregon here!) I interviewed someone that worked at the Astoria column. The … [Read more…]
Oregon, where to start! Oregon is a truly beautiful place full of amazing things that we got to do! Some things we did went from seeing a gun library, to learning about the war, to learning how to make cheese, and just seeing the natural beauty Oregon has to offer. It’s hard for me … [Read more…]
In this project we learned about colonization. To start the project we learned in general about different people involved in colonization. Then each person was assigned a specific group of people to research. I researched the indigenous people but specifically the Iroquoian people. We had to learn about what really happened, and how people were … [Read more…]
I loved doing this project! This project was all about matter! First we learned about mass, volume, and density. Then we learned about solid liquid gases and plasmas. From there we learned about atoms and the structure of atoms. In our final project we had to create a video game. The video game had to … [Read more…]
Science is a new subject in my timetable this semester and I am very happy about it. Since January I have had science and we just finished our first project. Within this project we have done many 4 keystones. We have been learning about germs, and the driving question was how can our knowledge … [Read more…]
This was an interesting project. Our teacher, Ms. Madsen, got sick at the very begging of this project. We were stuck with a different sub every day for the first week. We didn’t really know what the project was about and all the subs were telling us different things. This was definitely the hardest part … [Read more…]