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Week 7 (August 10th-14th, 2015): Robotics & Artificial Intelligence
AcadeCoders Presents: Robotics & Artificial Intelligence This week’s AcadeCoders blog will feature all of the contents that the AcadeCoders provide in relation to the tasks given among the topics of robotics and artificial intelligence. Robotics and AI are prominent topics in society from various field of medicine, industry, software, and
Week 6 (August 4th-7th, 2015): App Building
Welcome to the AcadeCoders App Building Blog! This blog will display all of the AcadeCoders hard work in building apps and games via JavaScript throughout the entire week; complemented with an array of photos and descriptions. Various trending apps and games are designed by using JavaScript and the AcadeCoders get
Week 5 (July 27th- July 31st, 2015): MinecraftEDU Viking Theme
Day 1 (July 27th, 2015) The basis of this week’s theme is to introduce campers to Viking themes and challenges. The campers are being split into two teams where they will face various challenges and games to build the best possible Viking Empire before they raid each other! After the
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Week 4: HTML/CSS
This week, the AcadeCoders learn the wonderful coding language of HTML/CSS! HTML/CSS is the standard markup language used to create web pages. It is written in the form of HTML elements consisting of tags enclosed in angle brackets (like <html>). HTML tags most commonly come in pairs like <h1> and</h1>,
Week 3 (July 13th-17th, 2015): JavaScript
This week, the AcadeCoders learn the wonderful coding language of JavaScript! JavaScript is a dynamic programming language. It is most commonly used as part of web browsers, whose implementations allow client-side scripts to interact with the user control the browser, communicate asynchronously, and alter the document content that is displayed.
AcadeCap Teacher and Staff Blogs
Learning Outside
The weather this week has been beautiful, and we decided to take advantage of it. We brought our learning outside. The students worked on their short stories and really enjoyed the change of scenery and fresh air. At the end of class, they asked me if we could go outside
Biographies and Timeline
Students have been exploring biographies of famous Canadians and Americans. They have been looking at how biographies are formatted and why they are important for learning about the past. We are now looking at writing biographies about family members. First we looked at the important information we need to construct
Together, but six feet apart
Over the first couple of weeks of school, building a strong classroom community is an important aspect to create a safe learning environment for the students. This year, more than any other year, students have been working extra hard to build a sense of community as they are sitting apart
What will biology labs look like this year?
The biology teachers are facing an interesting dilemma during the COVID-19 pandemic: how can we maintain a hands-on lab experience when the majority of our students are learning remotely from home online? Some lab procedures, such as DNA extraction, can be designed as kitchen safe experiments that do not involve
Inspiration From the World Around Us
To start the school year, students are warming up their creative writing skills by composing their own short story. We started this project by looking for inspiration from the world around us, and created a list of where good ideas come from. Our list included books, memories, news, history, movies,
First Weeks of School
Coming back to school has been filled with lots of new routines, but also lots of fun activities. The students have adapted quickly and have managed to do some great work. The students created math equations to showcase different facts about themselves. They used creativity to complete this activity, as