We made it to the end, which means we need to reflect on this semester’s project. This semester I decided to choose an inquiry project with the question of “How does the way a writer uses different writing styles in the same sentence alter the context of a question?” To […]
One challenge I faced was finding reliable information about mental health in young athletes. There was a lot of sources available, but not all of them seemed trustworthy. To overcome this, I used credible sources such as research articles and health organizations. Another challenge was understanding how different factors, such […]
a. What challenges did you overcome throughout this action project? How did you go aboutovercoming these challenges? The main challenge I had throughout this project, which I mentioned before, was that when I sent out my email I did not get as many responses as I expected. I got many […]
Hello everyone! My question this semester was what are the physiological and psychological effects of technology addiction? Today, we will be reflecting on how this project made me overcome challenges, changed the way I thought, impacted my future decisions, and impacted others around me to finish off this semester! Question […]
What challenges did you overcome throughout this inquiry project? How did you go aboutovercoming these challenges? It was difficult to come up with an open-ended question at first, but after some time, I was able to come up with my question after consulting my family. It was also difficult to […]
Hello everyone, and welcome back to my last blog post with my topic of “How does storytelling through movement and performance create a deeper impact than spoken language?” In this blog post, I will be reflecting the journey of my inquiry project, regarding challenges, and impact. One of the biggest […]
Hello everyone, and welcome to my last inquiry post of the year! This past semester, I began understanding whether food is considered healthy based on science or is generally influenced by trends across social media platforms. This inquiry post allows me to reflect on my research journey further; a. What […]
Hi, this is my last blog post, hope you enjoy! 1. Address the following questions: a. What challenges did you overcome throughout this action project? How did you go aboutovercoming these challenges? Throughout this action project, I faced different challenges while organizing and completing my community cleanup. One challenge was […]
This is my final blog post for my short story, The Whispers, They Scream. In this blog post, I will be reflecting on my short story and it’s writing process to hopefully learn and improve form the experience. One challenge I overcame during my story project was finding and understanding […]
Hello everyone and welcome back to my inquiry project. Today I will be writing a reflection about how my inquiry project went. my question. If our imaginations are formed by what we’ve seen and experienced, can anyone truly create something original, and if so who or what defines originality? a. […]
a. What challenges did you overcome throughout this inquiry project? How did you go aboutovercoming these challenges? I think that one of the biggest challenges that I had to overcome throughout my inquiry project was finding reputable sources that answered my specific questions, instead of broad, general answers. I wanted […]
a. One challenge was finding reliable information and understanding the science behind flow state. I overcame this by comparing different sources and focusing on research-based information. b. This inquiry showed me that focus is a skill that can be improved. I learned that the right environment and habits make it […]
Our first major setback was arranging a time where all three of us can meet and complete our project. It was difficult to sort out what time we were all available and what park is most accessible. When we arrived at Lafarge, we were surprised to find that there was […]
As I reach the final stage of my inquiry project, I have come to the conclusion that failure plays an important role in shaping who we are and who we become. Throughout this project, I explored how failure affects people emotionally, mentally, and socially, as well as how it influences […]
a. What challenges did you overcome throughout this inquiry project? How did you go about overcoming these challenges? During this inquiry project, I had one main challenge that made writing my blog posts more difficult: finding reliable resources. The reason for this was that no one knows exactly how AI […]
A. What challenges did you overcome throughout this story project? How did you go about overcoming these challenges? One challenge I faced was balancing historical accuracy with creative storytelling. Since the story takes place on the Titanic, I needed to make sure the events matched real history while still creating […]
Ethan lived an ordinary life in the modern world. One evening, while crossing a busy street, he was hit by a car and lost consciousness. When he woke up, he was no longer in a hospital. Instead, he found himself in a small cabin on a large ship. Confused, he […]
Hello everyone! My question this semester was “How much influence does social environment have on the advancement of women?” Today, we will be reflecting on how this project made me overcome challenges, changed the way I thought, impacted my future decisions, and impacted others around me to finish off this […]
Hello everyone, and welcome to my final blog post for this inquiry project. Over the past several weeks, I have researched how the loss of a parent affects teenagers emotionally, socially, and academically. This topic was very important to me because my dad passed away from cancer in January. I […]
My inquiry question is how the amount of sleep students get impacts their learning and focus. One challenge that I overcame was keeping track of all my work. During this class, I had some times where I would complete all my work on time and other times where I just […]
Our first major hurdle was that coordinating the schedules of three people proved surprisingly difficult and sorting out the timing took a lot of effort. Once we arrived at Lafarge, we faced an unexpected shift in the project’s scope: there was a lot less general litter than we had anticipated, […]
a. What challenges did you overcome throughout this inquiry project? How did you go about overcoming these challenges? Some challenges that I had to overcome were the lack of resources, websites, statistics and images that I could use for the research aspect of my blog posts. Deindividuation is a fairly […]
Hello and welcome to my final blog post of this year! Unfortunately, this project is coming to a close very quickly, but I look forward to coming back to Butterfly Effect in later years to continue doing research and starting new projects! As I reflect on my final project, I […]
1.) What challenges did you overcome throughout this action project? How did you go aboutovercoming these challenges? Finally, the updates on this project must come to an end for this semester, though I will be continuing to volunteer at the Madison Care Center. Throughout this project my partner, Valeriya and […]
One challenge I faced was finding reliable sources and understanding different viewpoints about progress. Some sources only talked about the positive effects, while others focused on the negative effects. I overcame this by comparing information from multiple sources and taking notes on both the benefits and drawbacks of progress. This […]
Throughout this project, I focused on how the amount of sleep individuals get affect their performance and mental health. I used many different sources to come to the ending result that other factors such as the quality of sleep, stress, and the amount. As this project has taken half of […]
Why I chose this question: Learning more about individuality and originality in this day and age is something I personally find extremely intriguing. With the continuous normalization of trends, it is becoming increasingly more difficult to express oneself in the most authentic fashion. In the media, it almost feels like […]
My inquiry question: “Does society influence fashion or is it the other way around?” A challenge I overcame during this project was coming up with my initial inquiry question. My question is “does society influence fashion or is it the other way around”. I was originally planning on the question […]
Initial question: “When does protecting people begin to limit their freedom?” Throughout this inquiry project, one challenge I had to overcome was learning how to stay balanced (looking at both sides equally) instead of choosing one side right away. At first, I wanted to say that protecting people is always […]
My initial question for this research project was, Why and how do people experience déjà vu? Throughout this inquiry project, one challenge I had to overcome was finding information that was easy to understand but still reliable. Since scientists do not completely agree on why déjà vu happens, I found […]
What challenges did you overcome throughout this inquiry project? How did you go about overcoming these challenges? One challenge that I have faced during this project was finding reliable sources and information, as there was a lot of opinion-based information roaming within the articles. I overcame this challenge by using […]
Hi! welcome to my last blog post for this school year. In the last couple of post I’ve been looking into my inquiry question : why is there conflict in the middle east and how did it get that way? My general conclusion was that many of the same causes […]
Hello there! This is my last and final blog post for this semester on the inquiry question: “How does daily screen time affect the sleep quality of teenagers, and what factors can determine whether its effects are harmful or manageable?” In this blog post, I will reflect on my learning […]
Throughout this inquiry project, I learned that overconsumption is much more complex than simply buying too many things. Before starting my research, I understood that waste and excessive shopping could negatively affect the environment, but I did not realize how big these issues really are. By researching fast fashion and […]
Throughout project number 2, I came across 2 main problems: Procrastination and finding a starting point. ProcrastinationWhile this is a personal issue, it is one that many students fall succumb to, including myself. During the semester, I found myself moving away from writing the blog posts. This was because I […]
What challenges did you overcome throughout this inquiry project? How did you go aboutovercoming these challenges? During this inquiry project, one challenge I overcame was finding trustworthy information because there was a lot of different opinions about social media and teens. I solved this by using reliable sources and comparing […]
To understand what it means for a government to control its economy, a proficient understanding of what an economy itself is also necessary. An economy is the system through which goods and services are produced, distributed, and consumed within a country. Government control over an economy is the amount of […]
The question I chose to try and answer this semester with my inquiry project was “How does stress affect student learning and performance?” What challenges did you overcome throughout this inquiry project? How did you go about overcoming these challenges? A major challenge I faced during this project was that […]
Welcome back to my inquiry project about how the loss of a parent affects teenagers. In my previous post, I researched the social effects of parental loss and how grief can impact relationships with family, friends, and others. For this post, I will focus on how losing a parent can […]
Welcome back to my inquiry project about how the loss of a parent affects teenagers. In my last post, I focused on the emotional and mental health effects of grief, including feelings such as sadness, anxiety, depression, and stress. For this blog post, I will focus on the social effects […]
ROUND 2 OF RESEARCH This is my round two of research and in this stage I am focusing on how habitat separation influence animals access to seasonal resources ,over years human activities like building roads, expanding farms and urban development have broken large continuous habitats into smaller isolated patches .These […]
Hi everyone, this is my blog post #5. Hope you enjoy! 🙂 1.) Where are you with your action? (e.g. what involvement have you had so far? Describe with examples) This past weekend, I have done my community cleanup activity with my friends. We went to two parks (Blue Mountain and Good Neighborhood Park) because I thought that […]
Hello! Thank you for taking the time to read my blog post again! For my semester 2 project, I am continuing to explore my inquiry question, “How does storytelling through movement and performance create a deeper impact than spoken language?” In this post, I will be focusing on the third […]
Protection from harmful UV radiation: This project would shield organisms from harmful UV radiation especially the body organs such as the skin and eyes. To much exposure to UV radiation can lead to sun burns, skin aging, eye problems and mainly skin cancer. So an artificial ozone layer would ensure […]
As I conclude we notice that animals are extinct due to a combination of factors including habitat loss, climate change pollution. Human activities contribute to this extinction crisis. Animals go extinct when they can no longer survive or reproduce fast enough to maintain their population. The single biggest reason species […]
Pollution is a big problem now. A lot of people thinks that they don`t pollute because they don`t throw trash on the floor, but this is just one little part of pollution. Pollution is any damage that we cause to the environment and nobody can live without polluting our planet. […]
In the first question you notice that dogs and human cannot really make to have same type of soul. We find that a human comprised a soul spirit and body while a dog comprised a body and a soul, whereby humans used the soul to guide on ways as the […]
Without authors the World could face one of the deadliest blows ever to occur. Everything could advance very slowly, and technology would vanish forever since there could be no trace of the already invented products. Books do not only help authors have money but also help a country grow and […]
The air combination in other planet may cause life to be very risky. The hotness, coldness and climate change of another planet may cause extinct of some species of plants and animals for example the hotness of other planets may cause some plants and animal like tea coffee and animal […]
Global warming has become an indisputable reality accelerating atmospheric circulation patterns . Against this backdrop , the arid humid climate patterns in many regions worldwide have undergone notable adjustments particulary in the spatial configuration of climate transition zone . These zones typically located at the margins between drylands , over […]
INTRODUCTION It has been estimated that up to 40% of the planets , lands is degraded , directly affecting the global population and contribution to on going biodiversity losses In response substantial effort have been invested to half and reverse this trend , through ecological restoration spurred on by large […]
INTRODUCTION We can discuss the need to improve how carbon sequestration and green house gas removals are defined and accounted for in climate policy . A major challenge in these systems is accounting for how long removed carbon remains stored outside the atmosphere. Tradition accounting methods often focus only in […]
Pollution significantly impacts wildlife in several ways:
Cancer cells adapt their new environment through various mechanism Metastasis; cancer escape the primary tumor site and travel through the lymphatic system to form new tumor. The process involves change in cell motility and invention capabilities, allowing them to survive in new environments. Evolvability; cancer can evolve and adopt to […]
Extinction is a natural part of evolution. According to earth’s history more than 99% of all species that have ever lived are now extinct. The main reason of extinction is because of human driven activities such as cutting trees that causes global warming. The other reason is climate change this […]
Welcome guys for my fourth round of research. Today we are discussing two major questions that most of you may be asking yourselves. of it may be; First of all, teachers could mainly teach concepts they had not well understood leading to a destroyed generation with poor skills and experience. […]
Welcome to my conclusion of my research, hereby I divide conclusion into three as follows : 1.why is it that in in space there is cold temperature 2.How could the atmospheres be affected 3. How could it affect the world in general Space is cold because it is a vacuum. […]
Hi everyone! Welcome to my fifth and final blog post for my research. If you have not read any of my other posts, I am doing an inquiry project with the question “Has instant access to information made society less informed?” In this post, I am going to be doing […]
Hi there! Welcome to my fourth blog post. If you have not read any of my earlier posts, I am doing an inquiry project with the question “Has instant access to information made society less informed?” In this post, I am going to be doing my second round of research. […]
Hi everyone! Welcome to my third blog post. For those who do not know, I am doing an inquiry project. My question being “Has instant access to information made society less informed?” In my last post, I mentioned three questions that I would start off with my research. Here is […]
Welcome to my blog post two. If you have not seen my first blog post, I am doing an inquiry project with the question “Has instant access to information made society less informed?” Here are topics I will be using for the start of my research. In my first round, […]
Hi everyone! Welcome to my first blog post for my second project. I am going to be doing an inquiry project, with my question being “Has instant access to information made society less informed?” For this project, I am going to talk about whether having unlimited and instant access to […]
THROUGH THE COLD WAR TECHNOLOGY IN THE U.S DEVELOPED INTO A HIGH RATE .SCIENTIFIC INVENTIONS THROUGH PEOPLE INCREASED AT A HIGH RATE BEACOUSE THEY THOUGHT OF GOING TO REACH TO OTHER PLANNETS .PLA LIKE REACHING THE MASS PLANNET AND CREATING A WORLD THE WAS ONE OF THE PLANS THEY HAD […]
Specie’s can go extinct because primarily their ability to adopt their populations in the world. New species arise and other disappearing because of human activities thus disrupting ecosystems. Some several enviromental factors of causes of extinction is: 1.Habitat loss; this may include destroying their habitats and urbanization. 2.Climate change;this are […]
Dogs are indeed capable of experiencing emotions, including joy, fear, anxiety, and love. Dogs communicate their feelings through body language .When you look at a dogs body you will be able to know its emotions at a particular time through how it expresses them.While in human beings they would tend […]
Welcome to my second blog post. Here, am going to divide my question into two that is; 1.Overconsumption, how is it causing pollution and damaging our planet? People consume a lot, and the risk of consumption is growing. In this chapter, we will look at why current levels of consumption […]
I once welcome you to my third round of research, here I divided my question into three they were as follows: 1.Why could understanding concepts be hard? 2.How could the business sector be affected? 3.why could people have to find alternative methods of listening to stories? First of all learning […]
The earth rotate from west to east which is commonly called eastward rotation. If you view the rotation from above the north pole , the direction of rotation is counterclockwise. However if you view the rotation from below the south pole this rotation appears Not all planet rotate the same […]
The Chain of Command (Hierarchical Processing): Think of your brain like a business. The Big Boss (the top layer) tells the Staff (the eyes and ears) what to expect. The Staff only sends a message back up to the Boss if something unexpected happens. If everything is normal, the Staff stays quiet, and […]
Bayesian inference is a statistical framework where the brain combines prior belief which incoming sensory evidence the most probable of sensation.Prior represent expectation based on past experience, while sensory data new evidence.Predictive coding is a neural implementation of Bayesian inference. How do they work: 1.Hierarchical processing: Predictive coding organizes the […]
Bayesian Inference is a way to combine what we already know (prior knowledge) with new information to make prediction and decision. Here is a simple breakdown on how it relates with the brain: 1.Prior knowledge: The brain keep tracks of what it has already learned about the world. For example: […]
What would happen if a medicine that regenerates body cells were discovered today. If the medicine was discovered today it could potentially treat diseases that has no cure and repair damaged cells. The medicine could also increase lifespan which causes are gradual damage and loss of cells. Second, human life […]
Engineering limitations :The ozone exists50-100yrs from the earths surface and it covers the whole earth at large. This means that the artificial ozone would have to cover the entire earth .A lot of labor and raw materials would be required to make this project prosperous .Extreme weather would make this […]
Effects of ozone depleting chemicals: Chemicals such as CFCs breaker down molecule’s in the stratosphere . Although control measures are being taken ,some chemical’s are still lingering in the atmosphere leading to further depletion of the zone. this chemicals radiate UV radiation in the stratosphere. Reduction in the ozone leads […]
Welcome to my second part of question where i would like to cover cancer spread in human body Metastasis is the process by which cancer cells migrate throughout the body. Exactly why cancer cells leave an initial site of growth and begin to move is not clear. Conditions inside a […]
Robots are transforming the world in various ways, impacting society and the economy in significant ways. Here are some of the effects of robots on earth: INCREASED PRODUCTIVITY Robots are capable of performing tasks more quickly and accurately than humans, leading to increased productivity in various sectors. JOB CREATION The […]
Hi everyone, welcome to my post #4! Where is your initiative at? (For example, what level of participation have you had so far? Describe with examples.) Right now, I have been busy preparing a map for the locations of garbage bins that can be used by members of the community […]
Hello everyone, welcome back to my blog. Today, we will be delving into round 3 of research for my inquiry question; what are the physiological and psychological effects of technology addiction? Social Media Addiction: Control or Chaos? To define an addiction to social media, it is simply a rush of […]
Are there any consequences, or long lasting effects after a poor nights rest? For the final step, I will talk about what follows a poor nights rest, not just in the next day, but in the following days. It will include the different consequences/ effects that you will feel, and […]
Overview: The brain’s ability to process, store, and retain knowledge is greatly influenced by sleep, which is essential for learning and cognitive function. Different brain systems enable the transfer and reinforcement of learned information, and different sleep stages enhance memory creation and storage. Lack of sleep affects cognitive function in […]
In my final round of research I will look at how we can evaluate whether progress is good or bad. Progress can be judged as good or bad based on the impact it has on people, society, and the world around us. One important way to evaluate progress is by […]
Hi everyone, welcome back to my blog! As a reminder my inquiry question for this semester is: How does grief change a person’s sense of identity after the loss of a parent? In this final round of research, I am focusing on the long-term effects of grief on identity and […]
Round one of research This is my round one research focusing on how habitat separation impacts animal ability to reach seasonal resources. Human activities like building roads, expanding farm and developing cities break large habitats into smaller , isolate patches this changes make it harder for animals to move freely […]
Hi everyone, this is my blog post #3. Unfortunately, due to my age I am not allow yet to volunteer in senior care centres. Instead, I have decided to do a trash pick up project. Even though some people also have decided to do a similar project I think it […]
POLITICAL IMPACTS FEAR OF COMMUNISM-WIDESPREAD WORRY ABOUT CUMMUNIST SUPPORTERS LED TTO INVESTIGATIONS LOYALTY AND LOWS THE MCCARRAN INTERNAL SECURITY ACT AND CREATED MCCARTHYSM. POLITICS LEANED HEAVILY ANTI-COMMUNIST MESSAGES STRONGER PRESIDENTIAL POWER-PRESIDENTHAD MORE CONTROL OVER FOREING PRIVACY CREATING AGENCIES LIKE THE CIA AND NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL TO HANDLE SECURITY THREATS SPENDING […]
The main part of our action is now complete! My peers and I were finally able to settle on a date and go around, helping our local community. On Thursday, we spent a good chunk of our evening in Lafarge lake park picking up pieces of garbage from various areas […]
This is my fifth blog post for my short story ‘The Whispers, The Scream’. In this blog post, I’ve finally written out my whole story. Fair warning though, it is very much a draft, and there are some parts that need tweaking. Also, apologies, it is quite long. The Whispers, […]
Hello everyone, and welcome to my fourth blog post, where I plan on comparing scientific evidence about healthy eating with information commonly promoted across social media. Platforms such as TikTok, Instagram, and Youtube are all major sources of nutritional advice, exposing individuals to trends, influencer reccomendations, and “healthy” content. While […]
Welcome back! To summarise what we have done so far is we planned to collect our supplies and finalised a date to do our group picking up garbage. we have gone to Lafarge lake and we were surprised to see how clean the place was overall, however there was some […]
After doing our research and collecting the proper supplies needed for our project, we met at Lafarge lake to pick up garbage. To our surprise, we noticed way less garbage than we expected. Many places were already clean; however, in more populated areas, garbage was present. We wore gloves and […]
For the last round of research, I will be exploring how pressure can be lifted off of athletes and finding strategies that athletes, coachs, and parents can use to be better support. One important strategy is having open and judge free communication between athletes, parents, and coaches. Adults should listen […]
Welcome back! In my last post I said I was possibly going to pick up more litter. I was able to go out today and get a few more smaller bags of garbage. I expanded my search to burnaby because my mom was visiting a friend. I got a ride […]
Hi, welcome back to my blog! I’m making a timeline of conflicts in the Middle East to answer the question: Why is there conflict in the Middle East, and how did it get that way? By looking at major historical events and what’s happening now, I hope to understand the […]
1. Demographic and Population Dynamics These are some of the consequences of having most of the population being women. 2. Economic and Labor Impacts 3. Political and Social Structures 4. Health and Well-Being Outcomes
Why do some species go extinct and others don’t? The reason for this research is because I want to understand those that lack the necessary genetic diversity for survival and the calamities that do not favor them. What causes extinction? This is particular question that iam entrusted with is because […]
Earth’s rotation is slowing down, but it will never fully stop on its own. The planet loses about 1.4 milliseconds of day length every century due to the gravitational tug of the Moon. At that rate, billions of years would need to pass before rotation ceased, and the Sun will […]
In this post I will be able to divide my questions into three categories: 1.HOW WOULD LIFE BE WITHOUT BOOKS. In this part I will be able to know the advantages of having a book in this life. Also, I will discuss the effects of not having books. 2.HOW WOULD […]
. To understand more about a soul, let us first define what a soul is. A soul can be described as the essence or spirit that animates a living being, giving it life, consciousness, and individuality. This is often linked on how the soul functions in the life of a […]
Welcome to my blog post #5. Today I will be discussing how society may prevent artificial intelligence from becoming too powerful, the dangers of advanced AI systems, and what governments, companies, and individuals can do to keep AI under human control. Artificial intelligence is becoming more advanced every year, and […]
