“What challenges did you overcome throughout this action project? How did you go about overcoming these challenges?” Throughout this action project, I encountered, reencountered and overcame many challenges. These challenges came in two categories: communication and time management. I navigated communicational challenges with a professional attitude, not letting personal interactions […]
Reflections on Teaching Kids About the Environment Looking back on my experience teaching young students about recycling and protecting the environment, I realize how meaningful and eye-opening this journey has been. From overcoming obstacles to seeing kids excited to learn, this project has strengthened my passion for environmental education. Here […]
Throughout this action project, I encountered several challenges but successfully overcame each one. One of the first difficulties was engaging with the third-grade students, as they were initially shy and hesitant to talk to someone new. To overcome this, I stayed positive, maintained a warm and welcoming smile, and initiated […]
Not long ago, I had the amazing chance to visit an elementary school and teach young students about the significance of environmental conservation and recycling. Through hands-on activities and lively discussions, I aimed to broaden their understanding and motivate them to adopt more eco-friendly habits. Although there were initial hurdles […]
Hello everyone, and welcome to my last post for this project! In my action my two partners and I collected bottles, recycling them at Return-It Depo and then took that money and donated it to the Wildlife Rescue Association of BC. I recycled my own bottles, one of my partners […]
Hello everyone welcome to my blog post #4. I am excited to share some more updates about my action project, even though it’s coming a little later than I planned. We were waiting for confirmation from local elementary schools to schedule our visits, and I am overjoyed to announce that […]
For my action project, I returned to my elementary school, Ranch Park, to volunteer in Mrs. Menard’s class for the third time. This time, I assisted grade three students with their Daily 3 assignment again, which included reading, writing, and vocabulary activities on their iPads. We also watched an important […]
Teaching Kids About the Environment and Recycling: An Engaging Experience Recently, I had the incredible opportunity to visit an elementary school to teach young students about the importance of environmental conservation and recycling. Through interactive activities and engaging discussions, my goal was to expand their knowledge and inspire them to […]
For those who are new here my action is collecting bottles, then recycling them at return it depo and then taking that money and donating to the Wildlife Rescue Association of BC. So far, I have recycled my own bottles, one of my partners recycled their bottles and the other […]
Since December 13th 2024, here are the tasks and events that have been accomplished by me and the Stagecraft department: I have been involved in all of these tasks, however, did not complete them alone. We have had successes in the past 9 weeks as well as a couple challenges. […]
Taking Action for the Environment: Teaching Kids About Recycling Hi everyone welcome to my blog post #4! I’m excited to share some updates about my action project, even though it’s coming a little later than I planned (sorry about that!). I was waiting for confirmation from local elementary schools to […]
Hello everyone and welcome to my blog post number three. My action overview: for people who have not read my previous blog posts, my action is focused on helping future generations to care for the environment by educating them from a young age about our beautiful planet and the problem’s […]
Since November 21st, 2024, here is the list of events that me and the stagecraft department have accomplished: As previously mentioned, none of these things would have been possible by myself, I am nothing without my crew even if I have knowledge and experience. Running a circus alone ends with […]
for those who are new here this is my action: My two partners and I will run a bottle drive; We will also do a park clean-up to get more bottles, then we will recycle the bottles at Return It Depo. The money we raised will then be donated to […]
I went to my elementary school, Ranch Park, to volunteer in Mrs. Menard’s class again for my action project. This time, I helped the grade three students with their Daily 3 assignment, which consists of reading, writing, and vocabulary on their iPads. I also signed their planners at the end […]
hi everyone, im so sorry for the late post. action overview: for people who have not read my previous blog posts, my action is helping future generation care for the environment by educating them from a young age about our beautiful planet and the problem’s affecting it ( I am […]
As of today, November 21, 2024, I have been involved in running 3 schoolwide assemblies, 1 music concert, orchestrated the haunted house, all while being present and in charge of stagecraft and rehearsals. We have had a successful opening of our MetFest the setup for which included running build-in, tech […]
With my action project so far, I have volunteered at Ranch Park Elementary School. I was supposed to volunteer at my old middle school; however, I decided to help in a different environment to gain new experiences. I helped out in Mrs.Menard’s grade 3 class. I went last week on […]
Hello, and welcome to the third blog article for my action project. I intend to continue the recycling project I started last year, which involved teaching elementary school students about the importance of recycling.Making recycling enjoyable and engaging by combining a presentation and an activity. This year, however, we intend to teach them about the environment and climate change, as well as recycling. So far, we have compiled a list of suitable schools to which we can deliver our presentation.We have successfully recruited additional persons who are interested in forming an environmental club at our school. This community helps us find other elementary schools that they can contact. However, some challenges are managing the club and keeping it active while trying to contact the schools as scon as possible. So, we can have as many schools as possible. My classmate (savannah) and I who are both working in this project are planning on meeting up […]
In this action so far, I have made a plan, vaguely out lined it, and gotten my friends on board. I would call all of these successes. Like H. Jackson Brown, Jr said “Celebrate even small victories.”(1) One challenge we have yet to tackle is hammering out the details. We need […]
The action I are taking is the process of educating younger children on the importance of recycling. So far we have had two meeting and are looking for more dates people are available to discuss and plan future events. We are looking to have one meeting a month. We are […]
Hello, my name is Eden Geddes and this is my first blog post. After doing the values activity I discovered my three most important values are equality, compassion, and belonging. My three least important values are risk, responsibility, and innovation. Personally, I agree with the results of the most important […]
I plan to return to my previous middle school to assist students in a class. I’ve decided to visit Hillcrest Middle School multiple times this semester. I am going to start this project by emailing my previous teacher and discussing my idea with her. I already did this action project […]
Hi and welcome to my second blog post! For my project, I’m planning to teach young kids about recycling and environmental responsibility in an engaging, hands-on way. I’ll start by visiting a local elementary school, where I’ll hold a short, interactive workshop explaining how recycling works and why it matters […]
What is “Stagecraft” Stagecraft or “Technical Theatre” is the prep work and behind the scenes work that makes a production of a play, show, concert or musical possible. Technical Theatre includes duties such as designing of posters, billboards, t-shirts, tickets or other advertisements, props, costumes, set design, lighting and sound […]
As I stated in my first post my action will address Development Goal 15, life on land. We will run a bottle drive, do a park clean-up and recycle the bottles at Return It Depo. Then we will send the money we raised to the Wildlife Rescue Association of BC, […]
Hi and welcome back to my blog! This is my first blog post of this semester. For this blog I will be looking at values and doing research about united nations 17 sustainable development gaols! And these are my results According to the Values Activity, my top three most important […]
Values I have learnt to value certain ideas over others in my time in the education system and as an adolescent. According to the Values Activity in the Butterfly Effect site, my most important values are equality, courage and recognition. I agreed with the wording of the statements that correlated […]
After completing the values activity, I learnt that my most important values are equality, responsibility and compassion. My least important values are tradition, spiritual growth and power. I agree with these results. I think that equality, responsibility and compassion are very important. I also think that tradition spiritual growth and […]
Hi everyone! this is going to be my last blog post of this semester. i did an action project so that i could teach the new generation about recycling and the importance of it. making sure these kids are aware of climate change and inspire them into do recycling as […]
Hi all! I am so sorry this family incident has taken my attention away from my blog but I needed time with family during these hard times and I thank you all for your understanding. My most recent action was being a big buddy. This was outside of my leadership […]
Hi everyone, as I mentioned I have been dealing with a family emergency that ended up stemming out through the last couple of months here so please bear with me! Recently I have been working on my action project through my leadership class, which allowed me to attend and volunteer […]
Hi everyone, I just want to apologize for the tardyness of my last post quickly, I had a family emergency. Everything is well now and I’m back to posting! As some of you may remember, I am continuing my project from the first semester and carrying it into the second […]
Hi I’m Dara and welcome to my 5th blog post! A quick recap of what me and other classmate are doing for this semester, our plan Is to teach younger kids about recycling and the importance of recycling properly. Going to elementary schools and putting together a short presentation as […]
Hi everyone my name is Dara! this is my fourth action blog post. Me and a couple other classmates teamed up into teaching younger kids the importance of recycling and how its supposed to be done as a little recap of what my project is. As if right now we […]
As mentioned in previous action blog post me and my other classmates are planning on doing a presentation and a fun activity to teach younger kids the importance of recycling and how it is properly done. we are trying to see which elementary schools will let us do our presentation […]
Step Two Blog Post Action Post: Hi all! Welcome back to my blog and today we are talking about my plan of action for my semester 2 continued project. My action project revolves around the topic of education systems and how to ensure the community is involved in them. I […]
Hi everyone and welcome back to my blog post page! this is my second blog post for the second semester. in this post i will explain a little more on my action project i will be doing and my reflection on the TED talk video i watched! My action project […]
Hey guys welcome back to my blog, today I am going to discuss my action project that I worked on all throughout semester 1. I worked with the company children believe (1). I created posters that I put up in person and online to create awareness about this company. They were […]
Hello everyone and welcome to my blog post #7 and as this is my last blog post for this project, I felt like this was the perfect time to look back on what I’ve done so far across my last few months of work and see what I’ve achieved and […]
Hi After working on my little script for over a few months I got it to a point where I am happy with it and am excited to show it to the world. So I turned it into a quick executable file which can take the Youtube link of a […]
Welcome back everyone, When completing the values activity at the beginning of the first semester, I learned that 3 of my most important values are helping, reliability and family. As well as my 3 least important values are belonging, equality and innovation. I am satisfied with these results as I […]
Hi all! Throughout my action project, with the mission of bettering the community through volunteering with elementary schools, I overcame the challenge of lack of challenge. I know that may have looked like a word salad, so to clarify, there were times when there weren’t any opportunities to volunteer with […]
Hi everybody! this is my first blog post for the second semester. i decided to do an action project for the last semester. the website was suspended but bases of what i read form other blog posts the top 3 would be spiritual growth, helping and family and my least […]
A challenge I faced throughout this project was dealing with having a new reading buddy each week. The idea of the program was to have the same buddy for the entire thing. That way, you would get to know them well, and you’d learn their reading strengths and weaknesses over […]
Hi all, and welcome back to my blog. As you know, my action project surrounds the idea of school systems and how putting effort back into the community through younger schools has an impact. If you’ve been following along, you know I haven’t had the opportunity to do much lately […]
1.) Where are you with your action? Hello everyone! To recap once again, my action project is volunteering at my local library as a reading buddy. As a volunteer reading buddy, I help kids in elementary school practice their reading skills and help them enjoy reading! In my last blog […]
Hello, all! Welcome back to my blog. I have previously shared my experience of volunteering at a local elementary school and my challenges within it. Unfortunately, I still have yet to hear from the PAC about future opportunities, but I recently volunteered with a local medical center and was able […]
Hi everyone! I’m so sorry I haven’t been posting lately, but my action project is still underway, as I’ve said in the past, I have volunteered with the elementary school multiple times and have been assured I have made a difference in their community. Recently, in October of this year, […]
Hello, and welcome back to my blog post! In terms of where I am with my action, all the reading buddy sessions have now been completed, which means the program has come to an end. To recap, the Reading Buddies Program, run by the Coquitlam Public Library, is a program […]
I’ve worked on the script to a point where I’m ready to release it. But Now that I am happy with it I’m not really sure about where to go. Its apparently really helped out a friend who was working on a school assignment on online economics and he told […]
1.) Where are you with your action? Hello everyone! To recap once again, my action project is volunteering at my local library as a reading buddy. As a volunteer reading buddy, I help kids in elementary school practice their reading skills and help them enjoy reading! There have been seven […]
Hello everyone and welcome back to my blog, today I am going to be updating you on my progress with my action. My action is helping kids in any way through education. Now this is something that I became very interested in, but I had no idea how I would […]
After working on my little script for over a few months I got it to a point where I am happy with it and am excited to show it to the world. So I turned it into a quick executable file which can take the Youtube link of a creator […]
1.) Where are you with your action? Hello everyone! To recap, my action project is volunteering at my local library as a reading buddy. As a volunteer reading buddy, I help kids in elementary school practice their reading skills and help them enjoy reading! So far there have been three […]
Hi everyone! My action project revolves around the topic of education systems and how to ensure the community is involved in them. I would also like to look into how the education systems around the world work and if they were the same, where would we be today? If we […]
Hey guys, today I am going to discuss my action in more detail. There are two main topics I feel are the root of my action: the power of information, and global differences in education. I still don’t know exactly how I want to approach this. The educational system, in […]
Hello everyone! This semester, my action project will be volunteering at my local library as a reading buddy. As a volunteer reading buddy, I will help kids in elementary school practice their reading skills and help them enjoy reading! I have already started as the first session was last week, […]
So after some time working on my program I finished the collection portion of the code that writes down all the donation messages from a stream and that was the main focus of the project and I am happy its doneso now I will shift my focus on the Log […]
When completing the values activity, I learned that 3 of my most important values are helping, reliability and family. As well as my 3 least important values are belonging, equality and innovation. I am satisfied with these results as I think they represent my true values in life. I think […]
While doing the values activity, I read through the different definitions and compared them to a part of my life. I thought about my life experiences, and the things I cared about in certain situations, like if I cared about getting recognition on a project or felt like others needed more compassion. […]
Based on the values activity, my 3 most important values were Equality,Compassion, and Community. My 3 least important values were Tradition, Spiritual Growth, and Power. I agree with my results for the most part, but it was difficult to only pick 3 values that mattered the most to me. For […]
1 – 3) Overall, I believe it is important to find new and creative ways of doing things because forcing an individual to do things in a certain way could subtract a method of doing a job in a more efficient, undiscovered way from the individual (Innovation.) And I believe […]
What challenges did you overcome throughout this action project? How did you go about overcoming these challenges? Some challenges came with my action, the rain is a constant factor in Vancouver of course. I overcame this was I stopped using my hands with the gloves and instead using the tongs. […]
Where are you with your action? (e.g. what involvement have you had so far? Describe with examples) I am very happy with the progress I have made with my action. Since it snowed these past few weeks, instead of going to the beach I did two pickup days in Mundy […]
Where are you with your action? (e.g. what involvement have you had so far? Describe with examples) So far in my journey with coastal cleanup, I have done two more beach clean-ups and have had more focus on local areas. I dedicated two days over the weekend, for a duration […]
The action I am going to be doing is coastal clean-up. We live along the coast and it is a big part of our everyday lives. Taking care and insuring it is clean is equally as important. I am going to start by finding the materials I need to do […]
Step One Blog Post – Action Post: Values Activity & Aligning this with Global Millennium Goals 1.Three most important values: 1.Integrity Integrity Competence Personal Growth 2. Three least important values: Tradition Spiritual Growth Risk 3.) Do you agree with the results? What do these values mean to you? I do agree […]
My partner and I faced many challenges during our project from safety, to making time, to finding rides. We overcame all these challenges by talking to one another and trying to work the problems out. After time we started to realize that finding a time that works for my […]
Step 7 Blog Post- Metamorphosis (Reflection) 1. Address the following questions: a. What challenges did you overcome throughout this action project? How did you go about overcoming these challenges? . The main issues I had were time management and feeling burnt out. I was slightly worried about how long I […]
My partner and are well into our action. Recently we went alone to downtown Port Coquitlam after we made care packages and we handed them out. We met many people during our journey and heard their experiences. Some successes we have had have been going out and preparing […]
Hello everyone! My project is a fundraiser for an art center called My Artist’s Corner (MAC). 1. ) Where are you with your action? (e.g. what involvement have you had so far? Describe with examples) My mentor and I discussed my current progress with the orders I still must finish. […]
Right now, my partner and I have made lots of progress from our last blog post. We have gone out to make care packages. After doing some research about what we should put in the care packages, my partner and I headed out to Walmart to get the supplies. We […]
Where are you with your action? (e.g. what involvement have you had so far? Describe with examples) Currently in my action, I have raised $250 from painting commissions and donations. After the last post I put up the flyers I planned to put up in places like Starbucks, No Frills, […]
My partner and I will be continuing our journey of going and helping the homeless like we did last semester. We will have the opportunity to go downtown with Kristi Blakeway and look at what homelessness is really like. Last semester we did a lot of planning, and it was […]
Hello everyone! My action is raising money through art commissions for mental health organizations, such as “My Art Corner” (an art center for people with mental health issues and people seeking wellbeing). 1.) Where are you with your action? (e.g. what involvement have you had so far? Describe with examples) […]
For my action project my partner and I will be continuing our action project from the last semester. We will be helping the homeless! We will be doing things like going downtown and handing out care packages. We will continue to see Kristi Blakeway and go downtown with her. We […]
Hello again! Here is my second action post. Do some research on your possible action areas (or your specific action you have already chosen) that you listed in your Action Post #1. I have researched the cost of supplies (canvases, paints, and brushes) first. By doing this I knew how […]
2a) The 3 most important values in my opinion are… I believe that everyone should have the same opportunities and rights. (Equality) I believe people should be noticed for their efforts and contributions. (Recognition) I believe it is important to experience close, ongoing, relationships with others. (Friendship) […]
a. Throughout my partner and I’s action project there were many challenges that we faced. One main one was defiantly finding time for both Kristi Blakeway, my partner and me. We did the best we could to work around this problem and we found our ways. We would normally […]
Hello everyone! Here is my first action post. What are your 3 most important values and your 3 least important values? My 3 most important values are compassion, opportunity, and helping. My 3 least important values were tradition, courage, and competence. 2. Do you agree with the results? Do you […]
So far, my partner and I have done everything we have needed to do up to this point possible. All we have to do left is actually going out and help the homeless. We have done as much planning that we can but unfortunately for us it is hard to […]
1a) Although I have many important values, my top 3 would have to be courage, integrity, and friendship. After going through all the different values and seeing the results I obtained, I am happy with the values that I chose. I think courage, integrity, and friendship are very strong […]
“To what extend does gender discrimination influence the world and the people in our society?” Lokshana Groodoyal social responsibility Research topic: “The impacts on males (morally, personally, professionally, etc…) ” – November 20, 2020 ———//———//———//——-//———//———//———//———//———//——— Firstly, the question that most people ask: “are tougher men also affected by gender […]
“To what extend does gender discrimination influence the world and the people in our society?” Lokshana Groodoyal social responsibility Research topic: “How & where does gender discrimination occurs.” – November 11, 2020 ———//———//———//——-//———//———//———//———//———//——— Gender discrimination has been a very popular and active problem, not only in our society but […]
Hi everyone! I have been volunteering at an animal hospital over the last several months, and I have been able to help out with a variety of things in the clinic and have got to experience and learn a lot about different tasks and procedures. I won’t go over everything I […]
Hello everyone! As the year is starting to come to an end, this will be my final post on the Butterfly Effect Website! Rejoining the Social Responsibility course for my final year of high school is one of the best decisions I’ve ever made. Not only did I have the […]
Hey again everyone! I’m back for my final post for my action cycle and possibly my last post ever for Social Responsibility. Wow…crazy to think about…anyway, let’s get started! As a reminder for those who might not know what my action project is about, I wrote about my work as […]
Hello again! I’m back for step #5 of my action! The last one before my metamorphosis! My last cycle ever! Can you believe it? Wow…alright, let’s get started! Description of process Well, starting from the very beginning I had to apply to each volunteer location (BCSPCA and Eagle Ridge Hospital […]
Hello everyone! I hope you are all doing well! I ended up falling a bit behind with my posts, so you’re going to see my name a lot on the site for the next little bit as I publish the ends of my action post! In this post, I’m going […]
Hi everyone! In my last post, I showed you how I have planted some seeds, and I wanted to show you the plant’s progress so far! Since my last post I have been watering the plants everyday and caring for them, and I have even had some sprouts since my […]
Hello everyone! Hope you are all doing well! This is my fourth post for my action project — Project One with Nature. We weren’t actually required to post today, but I wanted to anyway because I have so much to share with you all about what I’ve been up to […]
Hi everyone! In case some of you didn’t already know, for my action project, I have been volunteering at an animal hospital for the last couple of months. In this post, I will share with you what I have been doing, some of my successes and challenges I have had, […]
Hey everyone! Hope you are all well social distancing and staying at home! This is my third action post for the second cycle of my action. Due to the current pandemic, my action has been slightly tweaked, but I will still be carrying along with everything I had planned originally, […]
Hey everyone! I hope you are all doing well and are safe at home! For those of you who need a reminder, my action cycle is about my volunteer work at the BCSPCA and Eagle Ridge Hospital and Manor (ERH). I am not currently an active volunteer at these locations […]
Hi everyone! In my last post I shared photos of the greenhouse that I put together. Since then I have collected some seeds, planted them in cardboard egg cartons and peat pots, and have been watering them. I labelled them all and have them staying within my greenhouse. I planted […]
Hello everyone, To recap what my action project is about, I am making a garden for myself in my backyard. This is in relation to the Global Goals of Climate and Life on Land. By growing my own garden I won’t be contributing to the long fuel processes used to […]
Hello everyone this is my third action post! I am basing my action project on the #13 global goal climate action. For my project I am making, and decorating, reusable, recyclable and compostable bags and donating them to a local store currently using plastic bags. I hope my action will […]
For my Action plan, as I briefly talked about in my first post, I have decided to make a garden for myself in my backyard. This is in relation to the Global Goals of Climate and Life on Land. I really wanted to dedicate my action project geared towards the […]
