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AcadeCoders 2019

Planning your summer? Check out our weekly camp calendar for June, July and August 2019! Registration forms can be downloaded in PDF or Word formats. Multiple Streams for young coders and game developers ages 8 and up! Coding with Python Acadecoders campers will learn a broad variety of concepts in

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AcadeCamp 2019

Planning your summer? Check out our weekly camp calendar for June, July and August 2019! Registration forms can be downloaded in PDF and Word formats. Scroll down to see all weekly topic descriptions. Week # Week of Theme Short Description 1 Jun 24-28 Ladybugs For campers fascinated with ladybugs and ecology! 2

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Pi Day 2019

Pi Day is coming up on March 14 (3/14)! Here are some fun videos about Pi: Raytheon Pi Day Video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TPjRoWm8Ck&app=desktopCalculating Pi Using Pies (3 min)https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=ZNiRzZ66YN0Mile of Pi (6 min)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0r3cEKZiLmg&index=1&list=PL4870492ACBDC2E7CHow Pi was Nearly Changed to 3.2 (5 min)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFNjA9LOPsg&list=PL4870492ACBDC2E7C&index=3Pi and Buffon’s Matches (6 min)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJVivjuMfWA&list=PL4870492ACBDC2E7C&index=6 Source:: Mme Sarah’s Blog

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iSTEAM

Scratch Chaser Game

Choose a new sprite, here it is a balloon. Add these blocks to that new sprite. The other sprite in this program is Cat 2.Add these blocks to the sprite that can move with arrow keys.Add a background to the game.Use this button: Source:: Mme Sarah’s Blog

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AcadeCap Teacher and Staff Blogs

Teachers' Blogs

Happy Diwali!

We had the privilege of being invited to the Ottawa-Carleton Hindu Temple to celebrate Diwali this week. It is so important for children to learn about different cultures so they can gain a sense of awareness and respect for varying ways of being that are different than their own. We

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Teachers' Blogs

Charging into the Middle Ages

For their unit on Eras, the Grade 5-6 students have been exploring the Middle Ages. Divided into three overarching periods, Early, High and Late Middle Ages, the students learned about what events, people and other elements characterized each period. Beginning with the Early Middle Ages, they actively discussed why this

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Teachers' Blogs

Self-Portrait: My Identity

One of the activities the students completed earlier this September was a self-portrait. Since the start of the year they have been exploring the concepts of culture, identity, values, and more through various beliefs (political, religious, philosophical). For this activity, they were prompted to critically reflect upon the EXPO’s unit

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Teachers' Blogs

World Religion Map

There are numerous beliefs in the world. Too many to learn in a year. Therefore, students applied the “divide and conquer” mentality. They learned about the diversity of beliefs and values, and were able to agree on three overarching categories of belief systems: Religious, Political and Philosophical. They recognize that

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Teachers' Blogs

Diving into “Who We Are”

This year the Grade 5-6 students will be doing their PYP Exposition, commonly known at AcadeCap as EXPO, or “The thing that must not be named”. EXPO is a year-long research project which culminates in an interactive and creative presentation open to the AcadeCap community. The topic of research this

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Teachers' Blogs

OUTDOOR ED.

In our outdoor class, students learned the history of Thanksgiving in Canada and why this day became an annual national holiday. Students also made turkeys’ tails out of leaves where they had the opportunity to write down what they were thankful for. Source:: Mme Christine’s SLT Blog

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