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What is a Tessellation?

12/21/2020

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A tessellation is a pattern made of repeating shapes that cover a surface completely without overlapping. Today we made our own M.C. Escher inspired Christmas tree! A great lesson in working together and artist collaboration!
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December 03rd, 2020

12/3/2020

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It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas at Block 8!
​Stay tuned for lots more Christmas, Hanukkah, Pagan, Kwanza, and winter solstice activities! 
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December 03rd, 2020

12/3/2020

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To conclude our diwali learning adventures we made rangoli with coloured salt. Sometimes the messiest activities are the most fun!
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Behind Our Masks

11/25/2020

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Do you ever feel that when you wear a mask you hide some of your personality? Today we talked about some positive self-talk and supportive, kind words that we can use to describe ourselves. We won't let our masks hide who we are inside! Take a look at our art work posted in the main stairwell. 
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Celebrating Diwali

11/25/2020

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Every Friday is Multicultural Day! To celebrate the beginning of Diwali, we learned about diyas and created our own using clay and beads. 
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Winter Treasures at the Port Moody Art Centre

12/11/2019

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​Every year the students at Block 8 Academy create Art Gallery quality gifts to sell at the Port Moody Art Centre Winter Treasures Market. The proceeds are lent, though KIVA,
to low income entrepreneurs and students in over 80 countries! Our students have helped people in 12 countries so far including Rwanda, Nepal and Indonesia.
Students sold their items at the Port Moody Art Centre on November 14.
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Summer Camp 2019

8/27/2019

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Block 8 Academy had a very exciting summer this year! We swam at Sasamat Lake, and had fun doing parkour, bowling, geocaching, exploring the outdoors and even had some exciting afternoons at Science World! The kids learned cooking skills on our pizza day, gymnastics moves, and many new card games and board games that they played with each other throughout the summer! We also learned some small things we can do at home and at camp to help the environment!

The students had many opportunities to work on their leadership and teamwork skills throughout the summer as well! We had a student-led Harry Potter Day organized by some of our older students - jam-packed with exciting activities and Harry Potter trivia that everyone enjoyed! The students also worked together to make some short skits throughout July and August. They were fun to watch and very well executed! 

Although this fun-filled summer is coming to a close, Block 8 Academy is very excited to continue our summer camps again next year, we hope to see you there!
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Summer Fun at the Lake

3/12/2018

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Many summer days were spent at Sasamat Lake. We hiked, swam, played games and saw lots of cool bugs and plants.
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Summertime Shenanigans

3/12/2018

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The kids at Block 8 kicked off the summer with a fantastic afternoon hanging out with an Aboriginal Youth Group at the Port Moody Art Centre. They learned lots of new games and tricks and topped off the day with a kids-against-grown-ups Tug of War!
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What Causes Bridges to Collapse?

4/11/2017

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Learning Which Shapes are Strong

​A lesson in engineering.  Using popsicle sticks and glue, teams designed and built bridges that were entered in the APEG BC (Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of BC) competition at Douglas College over the weekend.  

​The students learned that triangles are stronger than other shapes, and that challenging your design is the way to make advancements in the design.  
Each bridge was loaded with a rig that measured the number of newtons of pressure that could be applied to the bridge deck before collapsing.  Students then had feedback on how their design could have been stronger.  

​Tips included narrowing the width of the bridge, changing the orientation of the sticks on the bridge deck, mounting the bridge decks through the triangle of the truss, and using more glue!!

Sampling of Bridges at the Competition

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  • Engineering is a process, where you build things then see how much they can sustain.  
  • Destroying your creation is part of engineering, as you measure how much it withstands, and learn from it, in the process of destroying it.

  • In general, the sides of our bridges were very strong.  The triangle design was good. The bridge decks were the points of failure.
  • Some factors that break structures are weight, moisture, temperature, wind, gravity ...
  • In this case, we applied direct pressure to the bridges to see each one's 'point of failure'.  This is the spot with the greatest weakness toward the pressure.
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