Inquiry

A Photo A Day- Messing With Our Eyes

May 9, 2012

Is square A the same shade of grey as square B? Spoiler Alert; don’t look down if you don’t want to see the answer. (Do look down if you do want to see the answer, and if you want to see the key concept) The surprising reality is: they are the same shade. This particular [...]

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Personal Inquiries, and (Finally) a NEW Unit!

May 8, 2012

I am extremely glad that it’s over. I mean, the Children’s Rights unit. It has been complete madness over this past month. In fact, April was probably the busiest (and most nervous) month of the year– we had to make a PSA, do our Personal Inquiries, prepare for the French May, and in addition, I [...]

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Face the Waste: Trash Masks

March 23, 2012

To wrap up our unit of inquiry, our class made face masks out of recyclable materials, and learnt about the 5 principles of design to make our masks attractive. This is my mask. I think this used the principle of design contrast, since I used lots of white (such as the large part of the eye), [...]

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Time To Reflect: How the World Has Changed

March 16, 2012

Note: This post will be updated constantly, since there will be more and more things to reflect on. “Once upon a time, there was a planet called earth. Then I was born. The end.” No, it isn’t that simple. As you think about the years, and how they have arrived and gone so fast, you [...]

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A Photo(s) A Day – Flooding and A Spark in the Universe

February 28, 2012

Note: This is for the BBB (challenge #7 and #8) and class 5E a photo a day. Flooding and global warming has been at worse the recent years, and the picture shows it happening in Thailand, but the whole world will be affected soon, not just Thailand. Flooding in Thailand has been at its worse [...]

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Managing Our Waste: Composting

February 9, 2012

One of the ways CDNIS (Our school) manages its waste is by composting. Today, our class visited Ms Daniels’ (Science or biology teacher, I presume?) classroom to learn more about this way of managing our waste. Composting, in a nutshell, is basically the process of taking food scraps, vegetables, and even small scraps of newspaper [...]

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A Photo A Day – Costa Concordia Disaster

January 15, 2012

Photos and news can be found here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2086831/Costa-Concordia-accident-Pictures-cruise-ship-sinking-coast-Italy-Titanic-like-scene.html?ito=feeds-newsxml I bet this made the headlines without even looking at the newspaper. The Costa Concordia, a cruise ship due from Civitavecchia, Italy to Savona, Italy has struck a reef four miles off course and ran aground near Gigilo port. Although the effects were terrifying, almost all of [...]

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Hiroshima Bombing Performance

December 16, 2011

Recently, I’ve been working really hard with a project coming up in January called “Lets Make it Happen Celebration”. The grade 5s are doing a show called “We Are History, We Are Time”, and our group is doing a two minute presentation on the Hiroshima Bombing in 1945. Watch this short 20 second clip to [...]

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We Didn’t Start The Fire

November 26, 2011

“We Didn’t Start The Fire” by Billy Joel. What a great piece of music. Billy Joel wrote this piece of music of the historical events, berths and deaths in his lifetime. I liked this piece of music so much that I decided to make my own slideshow music video on “We Didn’t Start The Fire”. [...]

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The Hong Kong Museum of Costal Defense

November 22, 2011

The Hong Kong Museum Of Coastal Defense, previously known as the Lei Yue Mun Fort, was once a battlefield in 1941 for the British, mainly used for the Battle Of Hong Kong. Today it stands in Hong Kong’s Shau Kei Wan as a symbol of Hong Kong’s 600 year history of Costal Defense. Today, our class [...]

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