Social media has taken over our world. Almost everyone I know uses social media one way or another. The ones who don’t…major FOMO. This single activity was ruining my focus, my time, my attention span, my productivity, and my mental health. So, I took responsibility for my actions and used James Clear’s Atomic Habits theory to make a change. The Project Habits are so important in shaping the kind of person you want to become. In this project, I selected…
What if everything you think you know about the past isn’t based on facts, but stories that have been carefully chosen to be told? This project we looked deep into the driving question, how do stories, media, and propaganda shape how we remember WW2?, by learning about World War 2 in many different ways through many different perspectives, ultimately leading us to the finished product when we created a booth to go in the 2025 PLP winter exhibition. My Answer…
Sometimes the biggest lessons you learn in life don’t happen inside a classroom. Sometimes they happen in the middle of the forest, surrounded by people who slowly become your community. Field Studies The PLP program focuses on three main ways of learning, one of which is learning beyond the classroom. We go on field studies to gain real-life experiences and explore what the world outside of school is like. Loon Lake Recently, my class and I went to Loon Lake…
Every weekday, I attend school and listen to my teachers teach. For this assignment, my listening skills were put to the test. I was questioned, “How well do I really know how to teach?” because the roles were reversed, and it was my turn to teach the teachers. The Assignment I’ve had this blog for 3 years, and while I’ve changed and grown as a person, my blog’s format and content haven’t, and neither have my skills for updating…
A habit is defined as “an automatic behaviour that is repeated frequently, becoming so routine that it is performed with little or no conscious thought”. This dictionary description makes habits seem small and unimportant, like they’re just things we do without thinking. In reality, habits shape everything about who we are and how our lives turn out. They can lift us up; however, they also have the capability to hold us down. Atomic Habits the Project We are starting a…
Have you ever wondered how a story of the past can be remembered completely differently depending on who is telling it? The Project The events of World War II still shape the world we live in today, influencing our society. How do stories media, and propaganda shape how we remember World War II? This is the question we aspire to answer at the end of our new project. Throughout this project, we will be learning about the key events, figures…
What if I told you that a butterfly is the reason our ecosystem is thriving? That’s right, butterflies my be tiny but they have a huge impact on our environment. I, with the help of my group (Sven, Daniel, Liann, Emilia, Madeline), just finished a project where we strived to answer the driving question, how can we support and protect local pollinators to ensure healthy ecosystems in our community? This was not any old project, it was very important because…
Here we are, 2 more days of grade 9, at the beginning of grade 8, this seemed like a century away. Back then I expected to be a completely different person by now, all of my hardships fixed, a perfect student and person. And although I have picked up skills that have helped me better myself, I still have a lot to learn. My Learning Statement Thank you for coming to my presentation of learning. I am the expert on…
Canada. We live in it. Play in it. Learn in it. Grow in it. But have you ever wondered when all of that happened? Have you ever wondered how and when Canada got its name? It all started with a man and an Idea, and the rest was HISTORY. I, with the help of 2 other peers, created a video called A New Nation. Creating and finishing this video signified the end of a several month long project called ‘In…
If we keep living how we are now, the world may not have a future. Not because of aliens, artificial intelligence, or an evil super villain, but from something far more subtle. Something that is slowly creeping in, quietly but relentlessly. Something that we are responsible for… Carbon Dioxide. We recently finished a project called ChemHistory where we spent many classes reserching, learning, and creating, all while trying to answer the driving question, what impacts do elements and compounds have…