9th Grade end of year TPOL 2021

Alexsandra Black - HTHCV

Mars community - humanities perspective
What do we need on our Mars community to make
sure it's thriving?

- No homelessness, housing for everyone

- Freedom of speech, press, and religion
- Jobs for everyone, a steady income for every
person

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 Art Piece Final Draft
Brainstorm
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Mars community - physics perspective
Coding arduinos and Coding for the Future
-used wires, resistors, building circuits, a breadboard, and
other tools
- practiced coding our Arduinos

Planning Full Mission to Mars

- Calculated cost, fuel, weight for a trip to Mars and
back
- Chose what to bring and what rockets and supplies
to use
- Had a budget of 70b and spent 60.5b

Designing Mars Community

-made a fictional community/ world with a theme
- would make it more detailed and less basic
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 Humanities, Physics and Math

Celebrations + struggle
Humanities- celebration
Mars Community essay

- Went through a long process to perfect my essay

- Made sure I completed everything on the rubric checklist
- Shows good details and flows nicely

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Humanities - struggle and change idea
Reading consistently
Struggle-
- Took me way longer than it should have to read
this book
- I wasn't reading consistently, and ended up barely
reading at all this year

Change-
- Set an alarm to read
- Plan on reading daily, to improve reading.

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 Physics - celebration
Sphero
-Did this in person
- It was complicated and it took many tried
to have my sphero ball go where I wanted
it to
- It gave me an experience with coding
Shows that I don’t give up, because I failed
many times, before achieving

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physics - struggle and change idea
Arduino struggles

Struggle-
- I didn't know what to do and I felt like giving
up
- I stopped paying attention for a bit one day
and ended up missing extremely important
information to help me.

Change-
- Ask for more help
- Make sure to always pay attention and don't
slack off
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Math- celebration
Mind map
- A mind map on our geometry
unit
- Had to include 28 concepts
- Everything had to be connected

- Is organized when reading

- Easy to understand
- Proud of end result
- Had fun

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Math- struggle and change idea
Remembering the process

Struggle-
- Forget formulas
- Mix up formulas

Change-
- Take notes
- Take pictures
- -Reference photos

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Team q&a self reflection
- In in person school I worked well with
my group
- Asked questions when needed
- Didn’t really know them at first but still
worked well with them
- Communicated well
- Group rolls

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New school year resolution
Push myself more, and share my thoughts and
ideas more.
Read more.

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 “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies . . .
The man who never reads lives only one.”
- George R.R. Martin

When you push yourself beyond limits, you discover inner

reserves, which you never thought existed earlier.”
- Manoj Arora

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Thank You!
Any Questions?

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