Inquiry Post

Research Round 1 – How Does the Educational System Affect Teenagers Mentally?

“How Does the Educational System Affect Teenagers Mentally? Hey everyone, For my first round of research on my new cycle, I will be exploring the basic mental effects of my continuing question “How does the Educational System Affect Teenagers?”. Similar to my previous cycle on the physical effects, school does […]

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Project Inquiry 3.5 – Bees, starting action.

This will sort of be an informal/formal post. I’ve decided to film a 1-2 minute film about a farmers results when they included bees. After looking at many sites from the last post and doing research of my own I think it’s time I start some action. Because although talking […]

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Inquiry Project – First Round of Research – Smartphones, what are they, how do they work and what is their history?

Most of us probably know by now what a smartphone is. The little, surprisingly powerful computer that fits in your pocket. For almost all of us, they are one of our most important possessions. We can do so much with them; search the internet, post media, see what is going […]

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2nd Inquiry Project Plan – Giulia Bianchi

 How can you become an author and what does it take to be one? The reason I chose this as my question is because I am a writer who enjoys making stories. If possible, I’d want to be an author when I’m older since it’s something of interest. I’m not […]

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Inquiry project plan – Why and how we should help restore coral reefs

So for this semester, I decided to go with an inquiry project. I’ve always wanted to look into coral reefs, so I figured it would be a great topic for me! After much thought and consideration, I have decided to focus on the problems facing coral reefs and the potential […]

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Research round 3

Some future trends that may dictate where technology is headed toward and how it impacts us… The last post was all about technology in today’s society and how it helps shape our lives and impact us as a race. But researchers and engineers all around the world continue to spend […]

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How much is too much to forgive?

Sunnie Kim (Grade 9) My inquiry question is: “How much is too much to forgive?” This question is of interest to me for I had gone through relationship problems and people have different points of view as to what is much too hard to forgive. Forgiveness was a hard thing […]

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Second Semester Inquiry Project Plan

My inquiry question for this semester is: Why would someone join a cult? My three steps for research are: How people are introduced to cults and the manipulation tactics used by the leaders to convince people to join The types of people that join them and their explanations why The […]

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Second Semester Inquiry Project

My inquiry question for this semester is: Why would someone join a cult? This is not a question of interest to me because I’ve ever been in a cult or want to start one. Rather, I am interested in this subject because I am interested in the psychology of someone’s […]

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Inquiry Plan

Hi everyone! For semester two of Social Responsibility this year, I have chosen to do another inquiry project. I have chosen not to continue my previous subject though. My new subject will still be one that is strongly related to the overall subject of my last subject; tech. My question […]

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Meditation Project-Inquiry plan

Hello! Welcome to my first blog post for semester 2.   I will be focusing on meditation…  Could people integrate meditation into their lives and what effects would it have on them?  This is a topic of interest for me because I often hear students say how stressed they are. I […]

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Inquiry Question/ Project Plan

Hi everyone!   I’ve decided to do an inquiry project for this cycle, but instead of continuing with my last question “How is one’s personality formed?”, I’ve decided to research yet another psychology related topic. So what I’ve decided on is “How does color affect mental state?”.I personally find this […]

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The Psychology of a Psychopath/Sociopath

Hello, and welcome to my project plan for my new inquiry project. You have probably read the title which means you know that I will be doing my new project about the psychology of a psychopath/sociopath. The reason was I have said “psychopath/sociopath” is because not only do I want […]

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Inquiry Question / Project Plan – How Does the Educational System Affect Teenagers Mentally?

Hey everyone, It’s been awhile since we last posted with our semester break; however, we are back and ready to start a new cycle. As I previously mentioned in my first inquiry question and project post, I am planning to continue the same inquiry question throughout the entire year which […]

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Inquiry Project and Plan

Is there substantial evidence to prove that there have been extraterrestrials on earth? I love conspiracy theories and one of the most popular ones is that there are aliens. Even more so, that they have been/are on earth. Steps: 1: Alien interactions with the military Having information about the alien […]

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Drugs

Hi guys…….it has been for a while since i posted. But now i m back online to the site.i had some issues with my email account but now its good to go. I will still be doing more research on drugs. i will be looking more on how the drugs […]

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Project Inquiry 3 – Bees

What are farmers and people doing to bees and does it affect us as well?  Even though there are many pollinators out there in the world, none of them can compare to the busy bees.  A single bee can pollinate 90 to 100 flowers in one day. “If 20,000 bees […]

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The Danger of a Single Story

Hi, my essential question is: How similar and different Canadian students and Kenyan students are in our daily life. For my essential question, I am planning to make a short film that shows the students’s daily life in Canada and Kenya. For my essential question, I’ve got inspired by a […]

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Blog #3: Round 1 of research

How have the World Wars moulded the society we live in today? Could they have been avoided? Further, what would be the effect on our society if another world war was to take place in the future? What were the origins of World War I and World War II? World […]

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Blog Post #2: Project Plan

My research will consist of 3 rounds of research: In this first round of research, I will try to find the origins of these Wars and what lead them to become a worldwide conflict. How were the World Wars labelled as such? What kind of people were involved and what […]

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Blog Post #1: Inquiry Project

1. How have the World Wars moulded the society we live in today? Could they have been avoided? Further, what would be the effect on our society if another world war was to take place in the future? 2. These series of questions I found to be interesting after reflecting […]

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Long term set up, and should we really go to mars?

Hi, and welcome to my final post of 2019. In this post I will be wrapping up this project (at least for now) by talking about long term set up and addressing the question “should we really go to mars?” You may have noticed that this post is late, this […]

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Research round 2

The effects of computers and automated machines on today’s world and the public view of these machines… In the last research round, I looked at innovations and some of the many brilliant minds that have helped the computer get to where it is currently. In this research round, I’ll look […]

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3rd round of research

In the future, how will languages converge and influence each other, and will the world one day end up with one single global language? For my third and final round of research, I will look into the history of language interactions (how they have historically merged and changed), how languages […]

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2nd Round of Research

In the future, how will languages converge and influence each other, and will the world one day end up with one single global language? For my second round of research, I will continue to search for an answer to my question by researching which languages are currently “going out of […]

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Inquiry – 3rd Research Round

Hello! Today is my third round of research for my question “where does personality come from”. In my last round of research, I started to look deeper into the nature vs. nurture theory. The nature vs. nurture theory looks at two different ways as to how our personality may be formed. […]

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Research round #3- How is one’s personality formed?

Hi everyone,  For my third round of research I wanted to look into personality disorders- How/why are they formed? What effects do they have on the individual?  How do they affect one’s personality change and development over time? However, once I started researching, I quickly learned that there is a […]

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What will the next art movement be?- Third research round

  My question is: What will the next art movement be? Hello! In my third round of research I will be asking “Are there pieces that match up with the struggles/tech/past movements? Based on the information gathered (struggles, new technology, and past movements) what/ where will the next art movement […]

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Short term set up and priorities for living on mars

Hello and welcome to my new post about mars, today I am going to go over the priorities of short term set up on mars. But first, I will be talking about the evolution of mars colonization technology. Thank you to Rhea Manhas for this awesome suggestion. So a lot […]

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Research Round 3 – Evolution of Veterinary Care

Hi everyone!  Last week, I looked into some breakthroughs in the history of veterinary medicine and technology and how these technologies work. I did research on stem cell therapy, anesthesia and anesthetic monitoring, and 3D printing. This week, I want to continue on the same topic, looking into more breakthroughs such as laser surgery and […]

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Research Round 3 – How Does The Educational System Affect Teenagers Physically?

Hey everyone, In my previous rounds, I covered the basic information retaining to physical activity as well as positive aspects the education system has provided teenagers. Sadly, it has come to the end for this cycle so for my last round of research, I will be investigating the negative impacts […]

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Round #2 of research

In my last blog post, I did research about how the school starting time affects students. Now, it’s important that there are examples from other countries who have changed their school starting times. School in Finland is very different than schools in Canada. In Finland, students can choose to graduate […]

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Research Round 3 – Giulia Bianchi

How does music effect us psychologically, and why do some producers get more recognition than others? Since I’ve found it difficult to word my posts properly, I’m going to change the way it is formatted. Hopefully, this makes it easier for the audience as well. Production of Music: (Record Labels […]

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Research round 1

A brief history on computers and robotics and their evolution over time… Electronic computers weren’t a thing until the year 1943 when two people named John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert, with the help of colleagues from the moore school of engineering at the University of Pennsylvania received government funding […]

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Inquiry – Third Round of Research – Victor Tenea

“Why can’t AI currently experience true feelings? What is holding it back and will it ever be able to?” To be quite honest, this question is quite complex and quite simple at the same time. Humans, other animals, and even some bacteria, and therefore their consensuses, are very intricate, with […]

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Inquiry – 2nd research round

Hello and welcome to my second research round for my question “where does personality come from”. In my 1st research round, I covered some of the various theories as to how personality is formed and I talked about where in the brain controls our personality. One of the main theories […]

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What we need to bring with us and how will we get to mars

Hello, this is my first round of research. In this post I will be talking about what we need to bring to mars to survive while we set up longer term solutions as well as how we would get to mars. How do we get there? If you want to […]

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Research Round 2 – How Does The Educational System Affect Teenagers Physically?

Hey everyone, For the second post of my inquiry topic, I will be focusing on the positive physical impacts the education system provides teenagers. In my last post, I mentioned some benefits school has on improving the physical aspect of children’s lives such as making physical education classes mandatory until […]

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Research round 2 – How is one’s personality formed?

Hi everyone! This is my second round of research with my question “How is one’s personality formed?” For this round, I am going to be researching about how genetics(nature) and the environment (nurture) can have an influence on personality and how the two differ. ————————————————————————————————————————————————————- (7) Nature vs Nurture (4) […]

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Research Round 2 – Evolution of Veterinary Care

Hi everyone!   In my last round of research, I looked into the history of veterinary studies, discovering when formal (and “informal”) veterinary education began and for what reasons. In this round, I will be researching what the most innovative breakthroughs and advances in veterinary medicine have been over the years, going into as […]

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Research Round 2 – Giulia Bianchi

How does music effect us psychologically, and why do some producers get more recognition than others? So, in the last round we looked at how the music effects us psychologically, and a brief message as to how producers get recognition. Now, I’d like to start branching off from those topics, […]

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What will the next art movement be?- Second round of research

My question is: What will the next art movement be? Hello! In my second round of research I will be asking “What information could help find where the next art movement will start?” I must look to see where it would be most likely to have an art movement. I […]

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Project Inquiry 2- Bees

1. Provide three steps for your research with a brief explanation of how this information will lead to addressing your question. Pesticides/Insecticides – Research and Learn about these incredibly toxic chemicals. Buying Produce/Agriculture – Knowing where to buy food, and where it comes from/how bees affect it. Diseases/Bacteria – Learning […]

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Project Inquiry 1 – Bees

Question: What are simple steps to help the bees that everyone can do? I’m interested in saving the bees and habitat because they are such an important part of our lives. Even though there are many pollinators in the world, bees do the brunt of the work. I would like […]

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Inquiry – Second Round of Research – Victor Tenea

What is the History of Modern Artificial Intelligence? While there are many recorded instances of very basic AI well before modern times, the true field of Artificial Intelligence wasn’t founded until 1956, at a conference hosted by John McCarthy and Marvin Minsky, at Dartmouth College, in Hanover, New Hampshire. [3] […]

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Round #1 of Research

What starting time for school will benefit students the most academically, mentally and physically? How the starting time for schools impacts students: A study done by Science Advances shows that school starting later lets teenagers sleep more which improves student’s physical and mental health, attendance and academic performance. Teenagers should be […]

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Inquiry – 1st Research Round

Hello again! This is my first research round for my inquiry question “where does personality come from“. Today I hope to be looking into where in the brain personality is controlled and some of the theories as to how we gained our own individual and unique personalities in the first […]

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Inquiry

  I switched to an inquiry project because the action project wasn’t really working and it was going to mess with my schedule a lot, so this is my plan not my first round of research. My inquiry question is “What do we need to survive and sustain ourselves on […]

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1st Round of Research

My inquiry question is: In the future, how will languages converge and influence each other, and will the world one day end up with one single global language? In order to find an answer to this question, I will start — for my first round of research — to look […]

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Research Round 1 – Giulia Bianchi

How does music effect us psychologically, and why do some producers get more recognition than others? Since we are currently still in 2019, what we need to get out of the way is what music genre our peers listen to. Using a recent chart, we’ll address the current statistics. By […]

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Research Round 1- How is one’s personality formed?

Hi everyone, This is my first round of research with my question “How is one’s personality formed?”. For this round, I will be looking into different parts of a personality. This includes different personality traits, personality types, etc.  (10) What is personality? A personality is all the characteristics/qualities that combine […]

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Research Round 1 – Evolution of Veterinary Care

Hi everyone!  My inquiry question is “How has veterinary medicine, technology and education evolved and what has been its impact?“  To start off my research, I will be looking a bit into the history of veterinary medicine, all the way back to the very beginnings of veterinary medicine. I will be delving into […]

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Research Round 1 – How Does The Educational System Affect Teenagers Physically?

Hey everyone, For my first round of research I will be giving a general introduction on the physical aspects for the first cycle of “How does the Educational System Affect Teenagers?” Without recognizing it, sometimes we overlook the impacts school has on teens because an education is a stepping stone […]

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What will the next art movement be?- First round of research

My question is: What will the next art movement be? Hello! In my first round of research I will be asking, “What has affected movements in the past?” Here are 5 art movements of the past and what has mainly affected them. (was it society, politics, religion, societal norms, technology, […]

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Inquiry – First Round of Research – Victor Tenea

What is AI? When defined at a superficial level, AI, or Artificial Intelligence, is quite a basic concept. It is the concept of getting machines to complete actions or jobs that when completed by a human, would force them to use their “human intelligence”. AI will normally show or attempt […]

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How computers and robots affect us and our future (Inquiry project)

How do improvements in computers and robotics affect us in both positive and negative ways and what does this mean for the future? By: Josh Vas From an early age, robots and computers have always fascinated me. This invention is relatively new and has had a profound impact on the […]

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Poverty by Martin

Poverty SOCIOLOGY WRITTEN BY MARTIN Poverty, the state of one who lacks a usual or socially acceptable amount of money or material possessions. Poverty is said to exist when people lack the means to satisfy their basic needs. In this context, the identification of poor people first requires a determination of […]

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The Effect of Music – Giulia Bianchi

By Giulia Bianchi How does music effect us psychologically, and why do some producers get more recognition than others? The reason I chose this question, is because I’m generally curious as to how music works. There are several different genres of music, yet the ones that are most played, by […]

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Inquiry Plan

Inquiry Plan. Question: Should the use of Physical/Written material continue to be used when there is the option of Digital/Electronic material? Why I chose this question: I got the idea of this question sometime in the last week when I was reading a book, and I remarked on the fact that […]

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Project Plan – Ellen

Written by Ellen Piasentin My three steps for research are: Research dead languages, how they are preserved and how languages die Research what languages are currently going out of style and what people are doing about it Research how languages are currently influencing each other, terminology in one language from […]

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Inquiry Project – Ellen

Written by Ellen Piasentin My inquiry question is: In the future, how will languages converge and influence each other, and will the world one day end up with one single global language? As a bilingual person growing up in a multi-cultural family, I have always been conscious of all the […]

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Inquiry Project and Plan

What starting time for school will benefit students the most academically, mentally and physically? This question interests me because school takes up most of my time. I get home from school around 4:30 but school work doesn’t end there. Depending on the amount of homework I get, I usually go […]

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Project plan

Hi everyone, This is my project plan for my first research cycle of the year and I’m happy to start researching about my question. The anatomy and physiology of the brain is a topic that I have always been interested in. That being said, psychology is definitely a part of […]

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Inquiry Project Plan

Hi everyone,  As some of you may know, I’ve had my heart set on becoming a veterinarian for a long time now. Seeing as this year is my last year of high school, I figured that it would be wise if I were to do research that is relevant to […]

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What will the next art movement be?-Inquiry plan

My question is: What will the next art movement be? This question is of interest to me because to find the next movement you need to know what factors affect popular art. I thought that it would be interesting to look back throughout art movements to see the different environmental […]

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Inquiry Question / Project Plan – How Does The Educational System Affect Teenagers Physically?

Hey everyone. For my final year in Butterfly Effect, I wanted to continue my theme of teenagers but, take a different approach towards my topic. Throughout the whole semester (or even the year) I will be researching “How Does The Educational System Affect Teenagers?” With a question this broad, I’m […]

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Inquiry Plan

For this semester of Butterfly Effect, I have chosen to do an inquiry project. My question for this inquiry project will be “Will Artificial Intelligence ever be able to experience authentic feelings?”. I decided to go with this question because I find artificial intelligence is currently a very interesting and […]

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Inquiry plan

I have decided for my inquiry question, I am going to ask “where does personality come from?” I decided to do this question because I find learning about different personalities very interesting. Everyone is different but still, we have our similarities. I wan to discover where personality is derived from. […]

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