PVU GCE Portfolio

In my first class for Humanities, called Forbidden Books. The unit we are studying is called Politics. We discussed and read Fahrenheit 451. We studied censorship and why the books were banned. While studying politics we took a FE to a bookstore. The bookstore is called Women and Children first. We went here because of the controversial politics with Feminism. For this AP, we were instructed to make a Socratic dialogue. We then were allowed to choose a partner of our choice. My partner was AA , our dialogue was about “When Does Self Defence Become Assault?” We made a video that showed how we used the Socratic method. The most trouble I had with this Action Project was when we were making the questions. Coming up with Socratic questions was very hard for me. The way I overcame the struggles by reading lots of Socrates and then questioning everything. Overall I thought that the Action Project was pretty cool and inspiring. A Socratic method is a form of collaborative discussion. This is ...

In my final unit of my STEAM class Population, we discussed how life expectancy can change over time. We learned about calculating and predicting population growth. Our class learned a lot about survivorship curves, and to showcase our knowledge we went the OakWood Cemetery to collect data.  We then used that data to create our own survivorship graph. We were instructed to come up with an Action Project that compared the human population to a self-chosen animal. I chose the Wood Bison. I thought the would Bison was a cool animal, and with my limited time, I had easily accessible data for Wood Bison. I thought the hardest part of this Action Project was to shoot the video. I have genuinely had a hard time filming anything that I am in. I overcame this by just pushing through my weakness to reach the top. I am overall happy with how it turned out. Ansgar Walk. (February 26, 2006) Wood Bison  Ansgar Walk. (February 26, 2006) Wood Bison Year Bison Pop ...

For my first STEAM course of my sophomore year, I am taking a class called population. In this unit, we learned about central tendencies, standard deviation, and permutation, combinations, factorials, and box & whisker plots. We also learned about genetic and heritable traits of an organism, theories, phenotypes, genotypes, natural selection, the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, and dominant and recessive traits. I thought that this AP is a really cool project, although I had some trouble researching my animals and getting their weight. I then chose three species that I thought would survive best in Russia's harsh weather conditions. The species I chose were the Husky weighing 61 pounds, the German shepherd weighing 46.5 pounds, and a Labradoodle mix weighing 39.06 pounds. I chose these three dogs because all three of them are fairly big dogs, they have long thick fur, and they can survive in cold condition climates. I think all of these animals will pass down thick fur, and big s...

This is my second Action Project for my last term, Food For Thought. In this course we are studying in this unit is to see what a global food system looks like, to understand human and environmental impacts of our world. For this Action Project we had to choose a global issue that is happening in the world. We had to research our issue. We also had to make a fake presentation for the UN. Finally we had to find a way to address and solve the issue we researched. One of the biggest things that I am proud of was coming up with a plan/solution to our water crisis. Something that I struggled with was researching. I had to record my “speech” and in the process I encountered many mistakes, but it all worked out at the end. Watch my video below, and enjoy my speech. Water Crisis in Iraq By PVU Water is something we take for granted in the U.S., while in some countries, people walk many miles to get just half a day's worth of water. Seventy percent of Earth is water but o...