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21
Jun
2024

Electric House-Solution Fluency

categories: ADL 10 Assignments, Science 9

Our class has been working on building electric houses. We are working on solving a problem within the house using a process called solution fluency. The process is composed of a few different steps; Define, Dream, Deliver, and Debrief. we will be using these 4 steps to describe the process of our solution fluency. For this project me and Diva have decided to recreate the snoopy house.

Define

The problem Diva and I have chosen to solve is a problem that occurs in many houses on the daily. The problem being that in the summer, it gets very hot and people overheat due to global warming. overheating can lead to illness and should be avoided at all costs. If you are too hot in the summer it also makes it harder to sleep and that greatly impacts your health and mood. One of the worst things is if you are sleeping and do not even notice if your house is at a dangerous temperature.

Dream

We have decided to create a fan that can turn on based on heat sensors. For example, if the temperature goes above a certain number, the fan will automatically turn on with a speed that suits the temperature bringing it back down to a suitable number. With a fan that can turn on without the press of a button means that the house will always be at a safe temperature on hotter days.

Deliver

We decided to code the microbit with a heat sensor. We had a bit of technical difficulty getting it to work, because of flaws in the battery or wires but in the end, we were able to get the fan to work with the heat sensor and be a very affective addition to our house. We went through some rough patches in this project, mainly with time management and how we were going to finish everything on time. With some work at home and school we were able to finish the microbit and the house’s wiring and interior.

Debrief

In the end the circuits and microbit were able to work and make the house functional. From this project I learned that even if things aren’t going your way, with enough work and effort, you can make anything happen. We were worried we would not finish our house on time, but with work at home, we were able to execute it well. We did a good job on the making of our house as a whole but I think something we could improve on is our time management. Since this project was at the end of the year, we did not have a lot of time to complete it. If I were to do this again I would write up a plan of what we would complete each day with an initial goal in mind instead of feeling rushed each day. This project taught me things that will be useful in the future like innovative thinking, problem solving, and solution fluency.

here is a video of the microbit working:

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13
May
2024

Hunger Games Theme Park-District 7

categories: ADL 10 Assignments, English 9

This is our theme park, we based it off of district 7 which is known for lumber.

Reflection:

The district we chose to base our theme park off is district 7. District 7 is well known for their production of lumber and tree-based products. For our theme park we tried to incorporate trees and wood in every aspect of the park because that is their main export. We did our research and incorporated everything we know about district 7 and what it is like there into our theme park. Our rides, foods, shows, and feature characters all tied back into district 7 being known for lumber. The climate at our theme park has rainy and cloudy weather most of the time because district seven spans across British Columbia, Alberta, and Washington area. To generate images of what we wanted the aspects of our park to look like, we used NightCafe. We put together the presentation of our theme park using Microsoft sway. I used to analyze and critiquing to help research and pick out details from the books about district 7, we also used analyzing and critiquing when creating the images of our theme park and ensuring that they look like they would exist in district 7. To generate the images, we found that we needed to include detail, but not too much detail because then some aspects mentioned may be overlooked. For some images it took a good amount of tries to get the picture we envisioned, in the future I think I will come up with a clearer idea of the image I wanted to generate. During the process of using sway to format our ideas, we learned how to use certain functions within the platform.

03
May
2024

ADL 10 Information Fluency

categories: ADL 10 Assignments, Science 9, Uncategorized

My name is Ellen Ottenbreit I attend riverside secondary school and me and my friend Diva have prepared a presentation on the Lyell island conflict, what we were wondering, what we found and our opinions on the subject.

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Ask: What are the questions you are trying to answer?

What were the key factors that led up to the Lyell Island conflict?
Who were the people involved in this conflict and what were their respective views?
What were the environmental concerns related with the development plans on Lyell Island?
How did the Haida nation feel about the development plans?

acquire: how did you try to answer your questions?

to find answers to our questions we used Gale engage, wilderness committee, and coast funds. for the process of making the sway we used citation machine to properly cite our sources. For the photos of Lyell island we used sway’s search feature.

Analyze: Did you find relevant information to answer your questions and cite where you found it?

Yes, we found accurate and relevant information that answered the questions we had. We cited all of our sources for those websites. the citations can be found at the end of our sway presentation.

Asses: how did the process go?

I think the process went quite well, I feel like we were both able to equally contribute to the work given. we were good at managing the time we had to work on this assignment and worked on it as homework in order to have it completed on time. We both learned a lot of new information about the Lyell island conflict and I did not know what it was until Diva and I began researching.