This is a rough outline of how I want my story to look. I hope to include all of these points and aspects into the final story that I will write: Exposition: My story starts off with a fourteen-year-old girl named Charlotte. The main first part of the story will […]
hi, welcome back to my blog. for my inquiry I chose how can we make more sustainable products. I have decides to break the perfect sustainable product down so that it will be easier for us to evaluate and or create sustainable products. affordability, as much as affordability sounds like […]
In this Blog Post, I will dig deeper into my big inquiry question, “How does disease affect the world?” by asking three smaller questions. 1. What is disease? Although this may seem like a broad question, it is the base of my inquiry question and allows us to gain a […]
Blog #2: Project plan 1. Provide three steps for your research with a brief explanation of how this information will lead to addressing your question. For my three steps, I decided to go through not only a visually appealing representation of my topic but also the historical aspect of it […]
Hi everyone! For the second post of my inquiry project, we will be looking at the three next steps towards my question: how do optical illusions help us uncover parts of our personality? 1. How were optical illusions created? This first subquestion will give me some background information on how […]
Big topic inquiry question: how does play affect a child’s mental health? The 3 steps for my research will be: 1.Why is mental health important? I would like to engage the audience on the importance of mental health first to make them more interested in this topic. I need to […]
My inquiry question is “What role(s) do one’s thoughts play in influencing one’s physiological responses?” The purpose of asking and researching this question is to expand my knowledge of the human body and mind and the effects one can have on the other. To advance in my research I have […]
Hi everyone! Thank you for joining me on this second step to my inquiry project! Today I will be explaining what my inquiry project will be focused on and what areas of my question I will be researching in detail! What gave authors the influence they have? (Did they have […]
1.) For my action project this semester I plan to do park clean-ups. The parks I will pick up garbage from are Mundy Park, Stanley Park, and Mariner Park. The goal of my project is to make the environment a better place by picking up as much litter as possible. […]
My research plan: Question 1: What can effect the emotions of a human? This question will explain what external and internal variables can effect a human’s emotions. It will also explain what would have a positive impact and a negative impact on the mental health and emotions of a human […]
For my Inquiry Blog posts, I choose the question “How has fashion changed and developed throughout history and how does that impact us?” This inquiry question intrigued me, however it does not have a straight answer. In order to answer this question, I will be asking and answering a few […]
Blog #2: Project plan 1. Provide three steps for your research with a brief explanation of how this information will lead to addressing your question. step one: OBJECTIVES focus in on 4-5 specific supplements so my first step to answering my question is to focus in on few specific supplements […]
Hello everyone, this is my second blog post for my inquiry project, “How does the acquisition and dissemination of knowledge shape human societies and contribute to progress?” My first step of research is to research about how the acquisition of knowledge shaped our societies, this will provide me with the […]
Hello and welcome back to my blog! 🙂 Today I will be answering a couple questions and telling you a little more about my Action project for this semester. For my action, I am choosing to volunteer as a ‘Reading Buddy’ at the Coquitlam Public Library. Reading Buddies is a […]
Provide three steps for your research with a brief explanation of how this information will lead to addressing your question. How/does philosophy help us in understanding our life, and our world? How does it contribute to our world? To understand how modern philosophers contribute to our world it is first […]
My inquiry question this semester is What is time, and why does its existence make us revolve around its complex concept? I am looking forward to dissecting what it means to centre human livelihoods and societal structure around something much more intricate than we may think. Research Step 1 – […]
Hi everyone and welcome to my second blog post! This semester’s inquiry question is “why/how have cars evolved over time?” To further investigate this subject, I plan to look into three subcategory questions. What materials are used in the manufacture of modern automobiles? What materials were used in the production […]
#2 This topic has many smaller topics that make up this question, so I had to choose the ones that make up a big chunk of this idea. Some elements such as humans, wealth, and evolution would be affected the most, so my points will hit those ideas to hopefully […]
My inquiry question: “How can we maximize our personal abilities to create an impact on the world on a small or large scale?” does not have a fixed answer. However, I will center my research around three more specific subcategories that will greatly help my research. Such subcategories are as […]
Hello everyone and welcome back to my inquiry topic on the most peaceful period in human history. Here I will be posting the outline of my project for the future. The subtopics I will be researching are: Trends in global conflicts, first, I’ll be researching the historical trends in global […]
Hello everyone. In this blog article, I will continue my research into the subject, “What influences human behaviour?” As I indicated in my last post, human and social behaviour is a large and complicated subject that cannot be summarized into a particular issue. So, I will be looking into three […]
Hello everybody! Welcome back to my inquiry. This topic is something I believe most, if not every student faces. For this inquiry, I want to deepen my knowledge into the causes of stress, exploring strategies for managing it, and examining its physical and mental consequences. Three sub topics I will […]
My inquiry question for this semester one project is “when and how do scientific theories change?” To research this question further, I plan to investigate three sub questions: How are scientific theories created? What makes a scientific theory “correct” and accepted? When and what causes a scientific theory to change? […]
As a person with an averagely wide skillset, I often think on how some of these dormant skills can be put to use. Yes, I took one art class in high school purely to fill up my schedule and yes I it came as no surprise that I was quite […]
Comment from Ms. Stuart: The Kenyan students have been working on making presentations about a topic that they were finding a bit difficult in school. They are now busy writing exams and so I’m putting their slide shows up so that students from Charles Best can see where they are […]
Hello everybody, As I was stressing over what question I wanted to answer for this inquiry, it finally hit me. I have been stressing over one of many assignments I had due and could not plan my day effectively. Personally, I believe although it is hard to admit, trying to […]
How many times have you ever been getting ready to present a project in front of your class and felt your heart beating at an abnormal pace or your hands sweating? When you’re watching a horror movie do you ever feel paranoia and stress physically? When you see a puppy […]
Hello everyone, My inquiry question for this semester would be “How does the acquisition and dissemination of knowledge shape human societies and contribute to progress?” This question has interested me because I’ve recently started reading a lot more paper books than I did before, and it has struck me that […]
My inquiry project is how does play affect a child’s mental health? I chose this question because I value child development. Many of our values, personalities, opinions are created from our childhood. I also want to raise awareness for mental health because it is a serious issue that is not […]
Hello, my name is Frederick, and my inquiry question is, “Is social media good or bad for education?”. I chose this question because I throughout my years of education in school and in extracurricular activities, I have always received assignments that have involved researching on social media websites or utilising […]
Hi everyone! Welcome back to my page. I am very excited to share my inquiry project question with you all. The question that I will be answering this semester is: “What is the root cause of gender wage discrepancy in Kenya?”. I have chosen this question because I have always […]
Hey everyone, my inquiry question is “how can we make environmentally sustainable products more accessible and what are the best sustainable options”. The reason i chose this question is, since i was younger, i have always been interested in the environment and doing every thing i can to help it. […]
Hello everyone! Today I will be introducing my project for this semester! I am doing an inquiry question and my question revolves around famous authors we are all familiar with! These authors can range from writers such as Oscar Wilde, Jane Austen, Hemingway and many more, but I am more […]
Hello everyone and welcome back to my Blog. I am so exited to be sharing my inquiry question, which is, “How does disease affect the world?” I picked this inquiry question because it fulfills my interest in health sciences and allows me to broaden my knowledge about the topic through […]
Inquiry Project Hi everyone! My inquiry question is: How do optical illusions uncover parts of our personality? Why this is a question of interest to you? The idea of psychology has always been quite interesting to me. The study of the human mind and functions as well as how it […]
Hello everyone! My name is Dara Casillas Mora and welcome to my first blog post. My inquiry question is “why/how has cars evolved over time”? I hope to learn and teach others more about cars this semester. It is amazing how cars have changed over the years. For many cars […]
Question: Are supplements and supplementation necessary for our health and performance in the gym? My question for my inquiry project is “Are supplements and supplementation necessary for our health and performance in the Gym?”, I had many reasons to why I choose this question. My reason for choosing this question […]
Blog #1: This semester, I will be doing an Inquiry project on the concept of time, subjectivity, and what it means to be a certain age. The concept of time and how it affects the brain is a topic that has been studied for decades. We are surrounded by time, […]
Hi everyone! For my inquiry project, I will be doing “How has the integration of celebrity figures taking in roles as creative directors of high fashion houses affected the growth and trajectory of the fashion industry?” a question revolving around the fashion industry, specifically the integration of high fashion and […]
My 3 most important values are risk, reliability, and equality. My 3 least important values are tradition, leadership, and power. I somewhat agree with my results. I believe all of my important values were correct. This is because I believe it is crucial to take risks to become a better […]
Hello everyone! My name is Ishani and for this semester’s topic, I picked the inquiry question “How has fashion changed and developed throughout history and how does that impact us?”. As I’ve grown older, I have realized how substantially the way we dress and act impacts our daily lives. Whether […]
One of the reasons I chose this question is because I’ve been researching how billionaires became rich, and the internet played an important role in their success. Two people in 1989 created the guidelines for data transfer for data to go to another computer, and today it plays a gigantic […]
Blog #1: Inquiry project 1. State your inquiry question. (Please refer to the Essential Questions page for examples) To what extent do modern philosophers contribute to the advancement of human knowledge and understanding, and how does their work compare to the contributions of philosophers from the past? 2. Explain why […]
For my inquiry project this year, I plan to research the question “When and how do scientific theories change?” To research this, I plan to separate this question into three sub questions that I will research in their own individual blog post. In my next post, I’ll introduce these questions […]
Things that can influence or form a human What can influence or form a human? What will effect their emotions and actions? What I believe influences and forms human behavior the most is the people around them. For example, if someone looks happy, you will follow their lead and feel […]
What influences/forms human behaviour? This is an inquiry I’ll be looking into this semester. My name is Lily, and I’m very excited to investigate this topic because it has always piqued my curiosity. In addition, I want to look at the difference between a value and a belief, as […]
This semester, I am doing a story project. I had no idea what I wanted my story to be about before I did the brainstorming. I set a timer for five minutes with a blank piece of paper in front of me and started to brainstorm what my story could […]
Hello everyone, my name is James and I’m excited to be part of Social Responsibility and to do this project My inquiry question is “Are We Living In the Most Peaceful Period”. I’m interested in this question because it reflects our progress as a society. Despite the war in Ukraine […]
Hi! Everyone, I am excited to do this project and to be part of butterfly effect students. We are finishing on our project by the end of October and therefore we do not have enough time to do a full inquiry project. I am going to teach on democracy and […]
We are finishing this term at the end of October so we don’t have enouth time do a full inquary project. Instead we are going to teach about a topic in one of our courses that we find difficult. My topic is Farm Structures. Under farm structures, we have many […]
Hello ! I am Najma Ibrahim and I’m so happy to start a new inquiry project. Last term I was able to do a project about organ transplants. This because I love biology and I will do an inquiry project from a biology topic next time, but I’m finishing […]
We are finishing this term at the end of October,so we don’t have enough time to do a full inqiry project instead we are going to teach about a tpoic one of our courses that we find difficult. My topic is communication (mordern means) in history grade 9. Why some […]
Hello guys am Elsa last time my research topic was How computers are programmed to perform their functions but this time am planning to do a topic in agriculture on Selection and breeding. The reason I chose an agriculture topic is because it is my favorite subject. The reason for choosing […]
Hi! We are finishing this term at the end of October, so we don’t have enough time to do full inquiry project. Instead we are going to teach about a topic in one of our courses that we find difficult. My topic is on rocks and minerals, this topic is […]
Hi everyone! I am exited to start a new project. This round I’m doing a school topic that challenges me a bit . This is because we have a very short school term so we could not finish a whole butterfly cycle, instead we chose and also helpful approach to […]
hey, my name is savannah. I’m in 9th grade and I go to dr. Charles best and I’m in French immersion. this is my first time taking social responsibility. I love sports like soccer gymnastics, rock climbing and more. my favourite subject in school is either math or English because […]
Hi everyone! My name is Penelope Zaitsoff-Choy. I am currently 14 years old. I am a grade 9 student at Dr. Charles Best Secondary in Coquitlam, British Columbia. I am super excited to start this course. When I found out about this opportunity back in January of last year at […]
Hi there my name is Sanam Moazed and I am a grade 12 at Dr. Charles Best Secondary. I’ve been in this class since grade 10 and have been interested in the inquiry process ever since. I’ve done topics ranging from economics, art history, auto-immune diseases, and more! My passion […]
Hi, my name is Frederick Han, and I am a ninth grade French immersion student and École Charles Best Secondary School. It is my first year in sicial responsibility, and I am looking forward to this program. I amm a sporty person, and I play many sports such as hockey, […]
Hey everyone! My name is Mahdiya Adnan, and I am currently a grade eleven student at Dr. Charles Best Secondary. This is my third year taking this Social Responsibility class. The reason I keep taking this class is because I want to keep making a difference in my community. Also, I want […]
My name is James Zhang, I’m in grade 9 and I go to Dr. Charles Best Secondary School in Coquitlam. This is my first year taking Social Responsibility. Some things to know about are that I love soccer, programming, technology-related, and listening to music. I started trying coding with Scratch […]
Hello everyone! My name is Marisa Ciulla, I am currently 16 years old but will be turning 17 in less than a week. I am a grade 12 student at Dr. Ecole Charles Best Secondary school, and look forward to graduating this year, and I live in Coquitlam BC Canada. […]
Hi and thank you for visiting my “About Me” page!! My name is Sarah Gamar and I’m an eleventh-grade student at Dr. Charles Best. Currently, I am a part of the French Immersion program and along with my continuous learning of this language and, of course, English, I have recently […]
Hello everyone, My name is Po Yiu, and I am 13 years old, in Grade 9 French Immersion. I go to Dr. Charles Best Secondary, which is in Coquitlam, B.C., Canada. This is my first year in taking this course, and I am hoping to learn a lot, as others […]
Hello everyone, I’m Sammie and I am a 15-year-old French emersion grade 11 student at Dr. Charles Best secondary school which is in Coquitlam BC. This is my third year in social responsibility which means I’ve been doing it since 19th grade. One of my favorite subjects in school is […]
My name is Lily Phan, thirteen years old and attend Charles Best Secondary School. My favourite subjects are English and French. This is my first year in this program, and looking forward to researching and writing about issues that interest me. Some information about myself, I was born in Vietnam […]
Hello! My name is Ava Vukovic and I am a grade 11 student at Charles Best; this is my second year taking Social Responsibility. This class taught me about abstract topics hardly touched on in core classes, all within independent research. Therefore, I am extremely excited to come back to […]
My name is Julie Wang, I am seventeen years old, and I am a twelfth grader at Dr. Charles Best Secondary School. My favourite subject is English. I took this course when I was in Grade 10 and I quite enjoyed it, so I am taking it again in Grade 12. […]
Religion with wars has been going hand in hand for a very long time. Warriors or enemies, prayers and offers sacrifices before wars hoping to defeat their opponents having God by their side. Religious causes of war include: the spread of faith, bringing back or rescuing believers that were once […]
a. What challenges did you overcome throughout this inquiry project? How did you go about overcoming these challenges? Some challenges that I was faced with was that almost all of the websites that I could find seemed to have very biased opinions about AI, some extremely positive, and some extremely […]
Blog #7 metamorphosis: why is Impressionism important in art history? What challenges did you overcome throughout this inquiry project and how did you overcome them? When researching for this inquiry project I struggled with choosing what information to use etc. Due to the large popularity of the impressionist […]
As I mentioned in all of my previous blogs, our main challenge throughout this action project, was being able to meet up. As we both have our own individual schedules, meeting up was very difficult for us. Our solution for that was to constantly communicate. Although we did communicate at […]
Hello everyone! Thank you so much for reading all of my blog posts about my inquiry this semester! I really enjoyed being able to research a thought that was always in the back of my head, and am glad I was able to reflect on all the possible options […]
Hello and welcome to my last blog post of this semester. This semester I researched the inquiry question, “How are values and beliefs developed?” If you have been following my research, you would know that I did end up going very in depth about it which is something I was […]
Blog #7: Reflection What challenges did you overcome throughout this inquiry project? How did you go about overcoming these challenges? My inquiry question: Why do we try to fit in society’s standards? Some challenge I overcame through my inquiry project was coming up with 3 smaller questions to lead up to […]
1.) a.) I have faced and overcome multiple challenges during my action project of volunteering at different schools. One obstacle I faced was walking around Hillcrest Middle School to help in various classes because I had a sprained knee. I overcame this by doing stretches for my leg and taking […]
Hi everyone! In this last blog post, I will reflect on my research and its process What challenges did you overcome throughout this inquiry project? How did you go about overcoming these challenges? There are many current social movements and I struggled to decide which ones to research about, and […]
My inquiry question this semester was, “How fears and phobias evolve from childhood to adulthood?” What challenges did you overcome throughout this inquiry project? I struggled to find specific information or websites about the evolution of fears and phobias from childhood to adulthood. Most websites I found would talked about […]
Blog #7: Reflection My question was What are the key principles of Marxism as a social, economic, and political theory/how it has influenced various societies and movements throughout history? 1. Address the following questions: a. What challenges did you overcome throughout this inquiry project? How did you go about overcoming […]
Hello and welcome to my semester 1 inquiry wrap-up reflection post for my question – Does Pretty Privilege Exist and If It Does, How Does It Affect Life Outcomes and Possible Opportunities? This question taught me a ton about Pretty Privilege as a whole, how it pertains to celebrities and […]
a. What challenges did you overcome throughout this inquiry project? How did you go about overcoming these challenges? I researched how childhood trauma impacts child development. This is a topic that is very personal and important to me, and researching the effects of childhood trauma could be emotionally challenging at […]
1. What challenges did you overcome during this inquiry project? How did you go about overcoming these challenges? During this inquiry project I feel like I struggled with finding information because some things that you search up can be a little too specific for websites to answer. I also had […]
Reflection a) What challenges did you overcome throughout this inquiry project? How did you go about overcoming these challenges? As I mentioned in my last project’s reflection post, the main challenge I encountered while completing this inquiry project was biased information. The topic I chose to research is incredibly polarizing […]
Throughout the course of this inquiry project on the positive impact of technology on the sports industry, I encountered various challenges that required adaptability to overcome. Firstly, one significant challenge was navigating through the vast amount of available information and ensuring that the sources I utilized were reputable and reliable. […]
Like mentioned in many of my previous blogs, Mai and I’s major challenge in this project was coordinating our times so we can go out to pick up garbage. At first we were stuck in a loop where we tried to text each other all the time, but there never […]
What challenges did you overcome throughout this action project? How did you go about overcoming these challenges? Finding solid evidence about abuse instances that went beyond allegations was difficult for me to find when conducting my research on abuse in sports. It became clear that gathering verifiable accounts and actual […]
a. What challenges did you overcome throughout this inquiry project? How did you go about overcoming these challenges? During this inquiry project, I struggled to find a variety of different sources to derive my research from. To overcome this, I worked to change the questions I asked. This helped me […]
Hello everyone, this is going to be the last blog post of the school year here in Canada and I will be reflecting upon my work throughout the semester. I have had lot’s of fun learning about new topics alongside many wonderful students and reading their Blog Posts. Thanks for […]
As I was doing research on symbiotic relationships, so far I am done with mutualism and parasitism. Now I want to know more on commensalism. What does it involve? This a relationship between individuals of two species in which one species benefits without harming or benefiting the other [1]. The […]
