21st CENTURY LEARNING

We believe that today’s students need significantly more than lectures and tests to be able to change the world tomorrow. That’s why we utilize a number of 21st Century learning styles including inquiry-based, project-based, and multi-disciplinary. And with those tools, we believe our students will help to Shape God’s World. Take a closer look at some of our best projects completed by ACS students. 

Small Business Design

DRIVING QUESTION:

How can I design a small business that has the potential for financial success in 2023 and beyond?

Project Overview:

In this project, students in Entrepreneurship 11/12 will be designing a small business that provides a service, creates a product, or plans an event. We will be meeting with many local entrepreneurs throughout the project. Students will work through designing a business plan over the course of many weeks and will learn the competencies in the course through the context of their project.

After approximately 2-3 months (in a linear course) of developing their business, they will […]

Pop-Up Shop

DRIVING QUESTION:

Why do people buy stuff?

Project Overview:

In this project, students learned about the marketing mix (4P’s) and then applied it by planning and running an ACS merch store at the Auction in November. Students considered what PRODUCTS to sell, what PRICE to sell them at, how the PLACE should be set up, and how they would PROMOTE their store. Through planning and running their store, they learned and made decisions about market research, target audiences, pricing strategies, product value vs. cost, product display strategies, visual brand, and promotion strategies. Our driving question forced them to […]

Give Bees A Chance

DRIVING QUESTION:

What would the world be like without bees? What can we do to help the declining bee population?

Project Overview:

BACKGROUND: Students will have previously learned about the classification of animals and basic research & presenting skills. *Presenting: (‘speed dating’ protocol)

PROJECT: After enjoying the exploration of animals and learning to research/present an animal of choice, students will be presented with the question: What would the world be like without animals? Allow for student ideas!

ENTRY EVENT: Visit the Bee Centre in Surrey. *Protocol: KWL (4-square protocol) What do you know? What do you […]

Everyone Can Play

DRIVING QUESTION:

How can sport be adapted to include more people of varying abilities?

Project Overview:

Adapted Sport Unit
We began looking at “adapted sport” and how the rules or equipment used in sports or activities can be changed to enable people with varying abilities to participate physically, socially, and mentally in those games.

As the final presentation of the “Adapted Sport Unit” students are randomly given an activity or game (basketball, volleyball, capture the flag, cooperative games (dodgeball, solo, etc.), along with a specific population (paraplegics, amputees, elderly, visually impaired) that would benefit from some […]

Abbotsford Christian School Storywalk

DRIVING QUESTION:

How will we design and install a Storywalk® that encourages children to read in our school’s neighbourhood?

Project Overview:

A Storywalk®, as the name implies, allows you to walk around a path while reading a story along the way. The pages of a picture book are separated and each page is placed in a glass case or structure (protected from the weather) around a walking path. As you walk along, you read each page of the story every hundred feet or so. The story changes every month.
Initially this project was to be done in collaboration […]

Honouring Stories

DRIVING QUESTION:

How can we amplify and celebrate the voices of marginalized communities in Canada?

Project Overview:

In this project, students will learn about social justice, prejudice, and different cultures by listening to the stories of people who are a part of a marginalized community. Students will engage with guests and listen to stories of marginalized communities and create a product to represent their guest’s story in a meaningful way to honour them and their cultures. Students will have the opportunity to be creative in how they represent aspects of these stories.

Throughout the course of this project, students […]

Kindness Gardens of Remembrance

DRIVING QUESTION:

How do we transform the garden boxes as an act of school kindness and ongoing act of stewardship while inspiring our school community to respect them for remembrance?

Project Overview:

A gift of tulip bulbs in remembrance of the Dutch liberation by Canadian soldiers during the Second World War was given to our grade 3A class in November 2020. The act of planting and use one of the school’s garden box to plant this gift spurred the grade 3A students to investigate a problem and find a solution.
Students engaged in caretaking, research, site analysis, […]

ACCESS Foods

DRIVING QUESTION: How can we support our school community families to be able to afford healthy, nutritious meals?

Logo Design

DRIVING QUESTION: How can I create a logo that adheres to principles of good design while also representing our school, our class, our faith or our theme for the year?