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Fractal Tree Scratch Project

Fractal Tree Scratch Project Choose the Ball Make these variables: Add the Pen Extension. Find: then Add this code on the ball sprite: Run the program: Source:: Mme Sarah’s Blog

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Bonus Computer Program Challenges

Need an extra challenge when programming in class? Try these! 1) Write a program called “LeapYear” in which the user is asked to enter a value – a year to be tested to see if it is a leap year. Have the program say either, yes, the entered year is

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Scratch 3.0 is here!

Scratch 3.0, the latest version of the popular block-based programming language, it now available for all users!ScratchScratch 3.0 will work on both desktops and tablets alike, and has some exciting new blocks: you can make your characters speak out loud, and there is built in support for Makey Makeys! Scratch

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Hexaflexagons – back by popular demand!

We seem to have a holiday tradition of making hexaflexagons! Here is a link to my favourite template for making tri-hexaflexagons: Aunt Annie’s Tri-HexaflexagonsVi Hart’s video about Hexaflexagons:Intro to hexaflexagons Source:: Mme Sarah’s Blog

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AcadeCap Teacher and Staff Blogs

Teachers' Blogs

AcadeCap Career Fair 2023

The AcadeCap Career Fair on May 24th provided an excellent opportunity for students in Grades 5 through 12 to practice their interviewing and networking skills and to learn about possible career fields. Our Career Studies class planned, organized, and hosted the event, which involved students completing research and preparing a

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Teachers' Blogs

Do Words Matter?

​Do words matter? During a discussion about living things and their needs, the dialogue turned into an interesting question being posed. Are plants affected by our words and the tone in which we speak to them? ( They are living things after all. ) We have decided to do an

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Teachers' Blogs

Inquiry-Driven Labs

In a problem-based learning challenge, the Science 9 students used their knowledge of electrostatics and the scientific method to determine how the amount of charge on the rod and the mass of foil in an electroscope affect how far apart the pieces of foil will separate from each other. In

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Congratulations for a job well done!

​AcadeCap School has won the Safe Drinking Water Foundation’s 2022-2023 Student Action on Canadian Water Attitudes Competition and one of the two $3000 grand prize packages consisting of several water quality testing kits and a water bottle filling station! Congratulations to all the PSSP and OSSD students, the Science classes,

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Teachers' Blogs

The Wonderful Earthworm

As part of our unit of inquiry this week, we are investigating all about earthworms and how they are beneficial to the growing process of plants. We constructed our own class worm habitat so we can observe and document everything that we notice about our fascinating worms. Did you know

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Teachers' Blogs

Results of the Recycling Incentive Pilot Programme

This Term, a civic action project has been underway, with the Civics students engaging the whole school in a recycling incentive pilot programme to reduce the amount of food waste and recyclables that enter our garbage cans at the school. During the 3 weeks of the programme, parents packed litterless

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