Kids Boost Immunity-Earn Vaccines for

What you will be doing:

Today you will be starting an online program where you do two 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.


How you will do it:

1. Click on this link (https://kidsboostimmunity.com/user/register)
2. Register to join our team "Nixon's Vaccines" using the code div03rm106
3. Select the Student option.
4. Enter your first name and last initial (e.g. Tasha D)
5. Click the green button "Create a New Account".
6. Write down your 
• username
• password
• the code div03rm106 In your planner on page 106
7. You will then take the introduction quiz - this is just a practise: 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.

Echo - Exclusion vs Inclusion

The Nazis forced Jewish children to display the Star of David on their jackets.  Why would this be considered inappropriate today?  What consequences could these children face in their everyday lives?

Background: In Echo we've read that the Nazis believed that people who didn't have mostly pure German ancestry, Jews, people with disabilities, deformities or even visible birthmarks were not welcome.  They imprisoned, murdered or sterilized many people so they couldn't reproduce.  The Nazis argued that allowing these people to surive weakened the German race and put an unfair burden on taxpayers to look after. 

Questions:

1) Friedrich, Mike and Frankie are all made to feel inadequate and were excluded by other people in their societies. Do you think they would be treated differently in today’s world? Why or why not?

2) What experiences, presentations, education or examples have you received, learned or witnessed in your life that have opened your minds and eyes to how different it is for us compared to 90 years ago?

3) Are we there yet?  Are there still examples of exclusion, bullying and or a lack of tolerance in our society/community today?

Draft your complete sentence answers in Google Docs or MS WORD. Edit them for clarity and details; use Google Read and Write or Word Talk to PROOF READ them for COPS before copying them into the blog editor and posting them. Don't forget your first name on your post. (Minimum 3 Sentences per question).

Echo: Frankie and Mike

1)The three sisters had an prophecy which they spoke for all who used the harmonica:

Your fate is not yet sealed,

Even in the darkest night, a star will shine,

A bell will chime, a path will be revealed.

Tell what you think each line means for Friedric now that he has been caught on the train and is in the custody of the Nazis.

Write each sentence out and underneath, write your interpretation of what you think it means for Friedrich.

2)In part two of Echo, the harmonica has passed to Mike Flannery in Pennsylvania.  The economy is in the depths of the Great Depression, and Mike, 11 years old and almost six feet tall, lives in the Bishop’s Home for Friendless and Destitute Children with his younger brother, Frankie.  How are the lives of Mike and Frankie similar to Friedrich's life? (3 or more sentences).

Math Review for Grade 5 AND 6 - Linear Measurement

Grade five and six will be learning about measurement this term.  Both grades should review what they know by completing these short multiple choice quizzes. Take Quizzes 1 & 2 and make a note of any questions you get wrong in Google Docs.  Pick one from each quiz and post comments on why you got it wrong and what you understand now...

Quiz 1

Quiz 2

Don't forget to comment on the above quizzes...and remember your name...:-)  By the way, many of the spellings in the table above are incorrect.  What is incorrect and why?