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Welcome to the Blog!
Welcome to the new STEM’s Blog. Next exciting posts from the STEM Team will follow soon. Stay tuned!
Défi Mathématique Day
Défi Mathématique Day: On February 25, 2015, Michel Lyons, developer and author of the Défi Mathématique series, will be working alongside students and teachers.
Festive Season Extravaganza
Académie de la Capitale offered a photoshoot to parents during the end-of-the-year 2014 presentation. What a great way to end a great year!
Jiu-Jitsu Demonstration in April
Mark your calendars for Monday, April 27th, for AcadeCap Portfolio student-led conferences and Jiu-jitsu demonstrations. On that day, our balanced learners will present you their eportfolio and their amazing Jiu Jitsu skills.
Swimming the 10k against Pancreatic Cancer
François Jacques, Chairman of the Board of Acadecap Intl School and Carleton Masters teammates swim 10 K for Pancreatic Cancer! By swimming the 10 K, François Jacques also took up the Jack Matthews Challenge, put forth by David Hawley, Headmaster Lester B. Pearson United World College. What a feat! Félicitations!
Paddling For Biodiversity with the UN
World School senior students (grades 9-11)in June 2013. It will consist of a 3 1/2 day Fraser River voyageur canoe trip, as well as a stay at Lester B. Pearson United World College in a marine environment on the southern coast of Vancouver Island. Read the full article here.
AcadeCap Teacher and Staff Blogs
Festive iSTEAM activities
Leading up to the holidays, the students participated in fun, festive iSTEAM activities. The students were tasked with building a structure out of a variety of different shapes of cookies, and made some pretty interesting houses and buildings. They used their problem solving skills and creativity. The students also used
The Virtual Debates Continue…
The HIVE debating continued this week with a rousing game of “Take a Stand.” Students were presented with a topic statement and had to think about whether they strongly agreed or disagreed or somewhat agreed or disagreed and why. They then had to move their sticky note to the correct
Think about it! Question it! Debate it!
Debating is our AcadeCap monthly focus for January. The online tele-learning format did not stop the HIVE students from participating in an engaging first debate. Everyone had some great persuasive arguments and rebuttals. Students are looking forward to the second debate. The high school students did a wonderful job of
Give the Gift of Words
During the SMILE holiday party, students participated in reading games, wrote word and sentence ‘gifts’ to give to each other and decorated the windows with holiday messages. Happy Holidays Everyone! Source:: Mme Christine’s SLT Blog
Mitosis and Meiosis
Biology 10 and 11 students learn about mitosis and meiosis with hands-on microscope work and a virtual lab assignment. Source:: PSSP & OSSD
Making Groups
Early numeration skills, such as spontaneously grouping objects to simplify the count, are part of the Defi-Maths curriculum in Grade 1 and 2. In this activity, students were given a random large amount of manipulatives, and were tasked with organizing them to be easily count and identify how many each