Loon Lake Learning Advance

Dinner Time! Nolan, Me, Ava, Ariane, Sabrina, Teva, Faith, Alfie

En Route! Teva, Sabrina, Nolan, Ava, Ariane, Me, Alfie

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In this (rather poorly filmed) video, we were asked to arrange ourselves in a circle in alphabetical order. You can hear people using the Core Competency Communicate while we Collaborated to reach the goal of alphabetical order. Our Communication strategies could have been a lot better considering that there were a lot of people talking and shouting all at once. It would have been more effective to designate a speaker to help everyone find their spot one at a time. I feel that I was fairly quick to find my spot in the circle. I remained silent for the most part so that there would be one less voice yelling. Next time I could be the person that designates someone to help everyone else find their spot.

PLP Loon Lake Learning Advance | February 2022

Gwenyth, Me, Caitlin, Blondie (aka Hannah), Kira Photo: Kira B &amp; Hannah J

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↑ My illustration of the fries from a meal

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Teva B: Brooke W: Ava R: Nolan F: Hannah J: Kira B: Carter C: Mickey B: Alicia H:

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Bed of Clams Advisory Group Photo: Mr. C Harris

We learned about how and where to make shelters, so that in the case of an emergency in the wilderness we could know how to stay sheltered. I’d made shelters before, but it was nice to get a refresher. I had a really good time collaborating with my friends to create our shelter. We learned that

it is good to build your shelter on flat, even and high ground. We created a lean-to/teepee combo.

I think that our Destination Imagination (DI) team, Synical Scientists, had some ups and downs during this Learning Advance. I think that we were able to bounce ideas and help each other with each aspect really well. During the 2 hour workblocks we were able to accomplish a lot. We worked hard and our solution really started to come together. I personally worked on researching and planning scenery. I also did a lot of work organizing our Basecamp. I think our team could have done a lot more to stay positive and unstressed. I think that we started getting stressed when we looked at all the work we still had to do, while forgetting to look at all the work we’d done.

Faith and I working on DI Photo: Nolan F

I think that next time we should remember to focus on one task at a time to reduce stress. We should also remember to lift each other up and stay positive.

Loon Lake is truly beautiful. It is big and clear, the most reflective lake I’ve ever seen, and surrounded by trees and isolated. I love all the colours and beauty it has to offer.

Buildings are green • Fields and Parking lots are orange Blue text is the activities • White text is the location name

Nolan awaits his food in the Bentley Dining Hall

When we arrived at Loon Lake we did a photo walk. I really like how the panorama (bottom left) I took captured the full scenery of the lake. I think the photo with part of the dock (top left) is great because it uses leading lines which guide the eye to the water, rocks and colours. I used Portrait Mode for the photo of the Salal to create a beautiful, blurred background.

Loon Lake | Site Tour | PLP Learning Advance

Here’s a short video tour Nolan, Faith, Carter and I made of the Loon Lake Property.

Sofia and I prepare for battle. Photo: Mr. C Harris

I learned a lot from playing Laser Tag. I quickly discovered that it’s actually very difficult to aim accurately. Upon reflection I realized that the game would have been more fun if we didn’t have the medic right beside the people with Laser Guns reviving them the instant they got tagged. It would have been more fun to hide the medic machine or have a duration to wait before getting revived. We should have used more Critical Thinking so that the game could have had more strategy. Overall though Laser Tag was very fun and I hope to play it again soon!

People in Thunder Inn: Ava R, Ariane C, Sabrina G, Teva B, Fraser W &amp; Alfie H. Mrs. Best also slept in one of the rooms for a night.

Battle Archery is a game in which opposing teams fire foam tipped arrows at each other. I think that Battle Archery was a great way to work on the Core Competency Critical and Reflective Thinking. This is because you have to use

judgment to decide where, when and who to fire your arrow at. Another Competency that this activity helped to develop was Collaborating. Battle Archery requires team members to work together to avoid and share arrows. Team members also have to Communicate to warn each other of flying arrows. They also have to Communicate to strategize. One of my biggest strengths in this activity was getting hit…. So not really a positive strength! Next time I’ll try to stay hidden behind the bubbles and fire arrows while staying covered.

On this Learning Advance I hope to build stronger teamwork and time management skills. These skills will really help me with projects in the future.

I hope that we will get to play Laser Tag on this Learning Advance. I’ve heard of Laser Tag, but never played it. I think that it will be a great way for us to collaborate and communicate with other team members to beat the other team.

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