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Junior students learned some amazing facts about cacao trees with Royal Botanical Gardens today! 🍫 Residents of Switzerland eat more chocolate on average per year than any other country. 🌍 Africa grows about 74% of the world's cacao. 💰 Cacao beans were used as currency in Central America.

An Algonquin Provincial Park educator is virtually joining our students to teach us about wolves! Here's what we'll be learning about: 🐺How the lives of wolves have changed in Ontario ➕➖How human interactions can have positive and negative impacts on wolves 📷Wildlife research techniques

Did you know that animals at the zoo have to go to the doctor just like us?? Students in Grades 1–3 will get to step behind the scenes at the National Zoo to learn all about animal health while watching one of our wild friends get a check-up from a veterinarian! #STEMeducation

Our friends from Kids Code Jeunesse are back with another 3-part series of workshops for VES students! Students in Grades 6–8 will get to learn about micro:bits (a.k.a. mini computers), code basic scripts, and create their own animations this month. #learningathome #STEM

Today, junior students get to participate in a live program with the Manitoba Museum to discover the resourcefulness of the Inuit communities and their use of skin, stone, bone, and snow! #onlinelearning #remotelearning #learningathome #indigenoushistory

Reminder that applications are due February 15th! Visit the Bursary Program page on our website for more information and how to apply. virtualelementaryschool.com/.../bursary-pr… #studentsupport #studentsuccess #bursary

Our students and staff have been busy donating books this year for our EcoSchools Challenge! Want to join in on the fun? Head to the Little Free Library page to find the closest one to you! #onlinelearning #studentlife #savetheplanet #sustainableliving

Students in Grades 4, 5, and 6 are off to discover the art, mythology, and storytelling of the Mediterranean with experts at the J. Paul Getty Museum today! We'll be taking a peek at some of the museum's ancient objects while we hear stories of ⚡️heroes⚡️ and 👿monsters👿.

VES primary students will be joining Fanshawe Pioneer Village for a virtual show-and-tell program today to learn how early settlers prepared for the winter months, kept busy, and survived the cold. PLUS, our museum educator has all kinds of mystery artifacts from the time period to show us.

From cooking meals to paying bills to playing sports, math is needed every day! The pros at the Ontario Science Centre will be showing our students in Grades 1–3 exactly how important math is with exciting specimens, demonstrations, and activities today! #learningathome #STEMeducation

Students in Grades 7 and 8 are tuning in to AgScape's virtual tour of Wheelers Maple today. Here's what we'll get to see! 🌳 A farm with more than 40,000 sugar maple trees 🥞 The maple syrup production process 🍁 The world's largest collection of maple syrup artifacts

Did you know that a Tyrannosaurus rex egg has NEVER been found? Or that some dinosaurs laid their eggs one per day over a period of weeks? We learned these fun facts and more during our latest program from the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology Museum today! #learningathome #paleontology

Abracadabra 🎩 Alakazam 🌟 Hocus Pocus 🐰 We watched the amazing WonderPhil perform his greatest magic tricks on camera with the Toronto Public Library today! #onlinelearning #remotelearning #learningathome

Students in Grades 7–8 travelled back in time with the Museum of Health Care at Kingston to discover what treatments and medical practices were available. We took a peek inside a doctor's bag and then used our knowledge to save a village in a Choose Your Own Adventure game! #learningathome #STEM

Did you know that a total solar eclipse is about to cross over North America soon? The next one won't happen until 2044! We had experts at the Ontario Science Centre show our students how to safely view the solar eclipse so we're ready for this special astronomical phenomenon on April 8.

Did you know that there are approximately 10 QUINTILLION insects on the planet?! Students in Grades 4–6 explored what makes insects so successful at survival by using their scientific skills of observation and illustration with the Smithsonian Smithsonian NMNH today! #onlinelearning

It's springtime in Ontario, and some of our favourite pond creatures are starting to get out and about! Together with Ontario Parks, our primary students got to look at all of the amazing adaptations that beavers and turtles have developed to survive in their shared habitat.

For the month of April, we encourage you to get outside to collect litter in your local area. Be sure to wear gloves, sort out the recycling from the trash, and stay safe! Simply snap a pic of your clean up efforts and send it to us so we can mark your involvement in the project!

Students in Grades 7–8 are joining Let's Talk Science today to learn all about climate change in the ❄️ARCTIC❄️. We'll touch on all of the following topics: Drinking water in Nunavik 💧 Plants in the tundra 🌱 Algal blooms 🤢 Marine animals 🐋 #onlinelearning #climatechange