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Hello, my name is Sarang Jacob, and I’m from Canada. I’m 14 years old. My favorite subject at Dr. Charles Best Secondary School is math. Because I am partly Korean, I observe Lunar New Year rather than Chinese New Year. I dress up in a Hanbok, a traditional Korean garment, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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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 […]

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. […]

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, […]

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 […]

Hello everyone, for this semester I decided to research on bonds with pets. I would be specifically researching on how we bond, what kinds of bonds, and how long it takes to bond with pets. It took a while to think of an inquiry question, so I started to think […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, 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, […]

Hello everyone, I’m Ishani, a 14-year-old, grade 9 student at Dr. Charles Best Secondary. A little bit about me is that I was born in New Delhi, India but moved to Canada five years ago in 2018. Moving to a new country and school was a massive change for me, […]

Hi everyone! My name is Vea Locsin and I am a grade 12 student attending Charles Best Secondary. I am also turning 17 on September 26 in the following week. I am the youngest of three with two older sisters. My favourite subjects in school are sciences because they challenge […]

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 […]

Hello, my name is Kiara and I am in grade 11. This is my third year at Dr. Charles Best Secondary. My favourite school subject is English. This is my third year of being part of Social Responsibility. About me- I am Korean, but I was born and raised in […]

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. […]

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 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Hi everyone!  For this last round of research I looked into environmentalism to answer inquiry my question: “What’s the role of the media in current social movements?” First, I’d like to explain what environmentalism is, as some of you might not know this movement.  Environmentalism: A “political and ethical movement” […]