KIds Boost Immunity Challenge

Today you will be starting an online program where you do 2 things:

1. Learn about immunization and how diseases are spread (disease transmission), while
2. Earning free vaccines for someone in need by answering a quiz question.  

For every quiz you pass, vaccines will be donated to someone in need.  Take a bunch, and you can protect a whole family, or even a village against diseases!  This is funded by the provincial and federal government.

What you will be doing:

After completing a lesson, students use a computer or their own device (e.g. smart phone) to take quizzes to earn vaccines in support of UNICEF Canada. The more quizzes a student completes, the more vaccines they earn for kids in another part of the world through UNICEF. It’s that simple!

How you will do it:

1. Click on this link (https://kidsboostimmunity.com/user/register)
2. Register to join our team "Nixon's Bacteria Busters" using the code room106
3. Select the Student option.
4. Enter your first name and last initial (e.g. Amy F or Evan H)
5. Click the green button "Create a New Account".
6. Write down your 
• username
• password
• the code room106 In your planner on page 106
7. You will then take the introduction quiz - this is just a practice: you are not expected to know the correct answers to this quiz, it is just to familiarize you with how the quiz works.
8. Then click on NEXT QUIZ and go to the first lesson: SCIENCE - The Immune System.  Carefully read and follow the lesson to learn about the immune system.  Then take the quiz and see if you can score more than 80%.  If so, you will have earned vaccines for people in need around the world - it's that's easy!
9. You will be expected to to one lesson and quiz per computer lab; however, if you wish, you may do another lesson and quiz.

Fritz - What would you do?

"There's no future here for me.  I'm leaving East Berlin tonight.  I found a place near the Spree that isn't well guarded.  I can run for the water and swim across before I'm seen.  I wanted you to know so you can explain to Mama.  It's not fair, but it is the best I can do.  I will not join their military.  Eventually I'll think like they do.  And I will not let them ruin my life." Fritz's note to Gerta.

1) In complete sentences, list all the reasons why Fritz is determined to risk his life and escape over the wall and across the dangerous River Spree to West Berlin.  What are the factors pushing him away from East Berlin; what are the factors attracting him to West Berlin?

2)Then, tell what you would do in his place.  Would you stay or would you go?  Why?  If you chose to go, then what about your mother and younger sister?  If you chose to stay, how would you shape your future.

Remember, COPS, complete sentence answers.

Becoming Familiar with Coast Salish, Legend, Design and Art

Watch these videos. Choose one design (easy, medium or hard) and try to produce a piece of art inspired by Coast Salish design. It can be a real animal, or an abstract piece of art just using some of the shapes. The idea is to have fun, learn some new ways of drawing and get an appreciation for Coast Salish cultural and artistic styles beliefs and techniques. ENJOY. .

The Raven Steals the Light

YouTube video   ‪8 minutes‬

Coast Salish design elements

YouTube video   ‪4 minutes‬

Coast Salish 2.0 Design Elements

YouTube video   ‪5 minutes‬

How I Draw a Tribal Whale - Haida Tattoo Inspired Design

YouTube video   ‪4 minutes‬

The most basic elements used in the Northwest Coast formline art.

YouTube video   ‪0 minutes‬

More 3D Perspective/Optical Illusion Artt

Skim watch each of these videos below.  Choose one to copy.  You are going to learn how to draw one or two point perspective "3D like" pictures on a flat surface.  You may try more than one.  Stop/pause and replay the video at your leisure as many times as you like while you are drawing.  You will be required to hand in a finished piece of art by 2:10pm today, so make your choice wisely :-)

1. How to draw using one point perspective - railway to horizon
2. Looking up at skyscrapers
3. Looking down from skyscrapers

Want to try two point perspective?

1. 3D House
2. Street corner part one and  part two

Challenge: 3D City Optical Illusion

The Berlin Wall

We will be reading A Night Divided by Jennifer A Neilsen about the rise of the Berlin Wall.  

With the rise of the Berlin Wall, twelve-year-old Gerta finds her family divided overnight. She, her mother, and her brother Fritz live on the eastern side, controlled by the Soviets. Her father and middle brother, who had gone west in search of work, cannot return home. Gerta knows it is dangerous to watch the wall, to think forbidden thoughts of freedom, yet she can’t help herself. She sees the East German soldiers with their guns trained on their own citizens; she, her family, her neighbors and friends are prisoners in their own city.

Go to the following website and read a little background on the Berlin Wall.  

Watch the following videos: 

video#1 

video#2 

video#3

Write one question you have about the Berlin Wall and post it.  If you can answer someone else's question, go ahead :-)

8 Rules

In Jonas' new work package, one piece of paper outlined the 8 rules he had to live by.  Rule#8 stated "You may lie."

1. Why does Jonas find the instruction about lying so disturbing?  3 Sentences minimum.  (What would you feel/think if you were given this "permission"?)
2. Which rule do you like best?  How would you use it?  (3 sentences minimum). If you can't remember the EXACT wording of the rules, then grab a book to help you (page#68)

Remember: Draft your answers in Google Docs. Edit them for clarity and details; PROOF READ them for COPS before copying them into the blog editor and posting them.

The Giver - Funky Fruit

"But suddenly Jonas had noticed, following the path of the apple through the air with his eyes, that the piece of fruit had-well, this was the part that he couldn't adequately understand-the apple had changed. Just for an instant. It had changed in mid-air...Then it was in his hand, and he looked at it carefully, but it was the same apple. Unchanged. The same size and shape: a perfect sphere."

 If you don't have access to a book, then you can read the chapters here

P:\etexts\Novels\The Giver

Go to My Computer, P:\Drive, click on the "etexts" folder, click on the "Novels" folder and Click on "The Giver".

1)What do you think happened? 

2)If the apple did change, then how, in your opinion did it change? What was different? Why? Explain your thoughts using any evidence from the book (page number) about what you think happened.

Remember:

Draft your answers in Google Docs. Edit them for clarity and details; PROOF READ them for COPS using Google Read and Write before copying them into the blog editor and posting them.

Math CH5: Motion Geometry Review

Review:

Grade 6s go to this page for chapter 5 and work through the quizzes up to, and including, #4.

Make a note of any questions you get wrong and post comments on why you got it wrong and what you understand now...

The Giver: Rules

In Jonas's community there are many rules that the citizens must follow. If you don't have access to a book, then you can read the chapters here

P:\etexts\Novels\The Giver

Go to My Computer, P:\Drive, click on the "etexts" folder, click on the "Novels" folder and Click on "The Giver".  

1. List at least five rules that Jonas and his community must live by and give them your own title or name.
2. Copy an exact quote from the The Giver for each rule in your list which shows where the author has mentioned it. Include the page number for the quote.
3. Explain in one or two complete sentences what the rule means in your own words (Don't tell why you like it/don't like it). 
4. Tell what the advantages of each rule could be in a community.  How could this rule benefit your life or world?

All your answers must be written as complete sentence answers  in Google Docs.  Check them with Google Read and Write.  Use all your COPS skills and include all 6 dressups to make your answers as interesting to read and as descriptive as possible.

Chapter 4 Math Review for Quizzes

Over the next few days, you are going to review your Math from Chapter 4 (collecting/displaying data).  Click here. As you go through the quizzes, record which ones you get incorrect and post after completing each quiz which questions you got wrong.  Tell whether you know why you got the answer wrong and whether you could solve a similar question now.