Tuesday, April 16, 2019

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.

Friday, April 12, 2019

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.

Friday, April 5, 2019

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. .

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?

Thursday, April 4, 2019

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 :-)