Student Self-Assessment of the Core Competencies Best Copy

Please complete the best copy of your Student Self-Assessment of the Core Competencies on the on-line fillable form when Mr. N has signed off on your draft. 

Don't forget:

• Your Name
• The Date
• All boxes filled 
• COPS and proof-read (from your draft)
• Print to Lab Laser Printer
• Leave on printer.  Mr N will pick it up.

When finished, work on your:

1. Music Presentation
2. Map
3. World Cup Team Poster.

Over and Out!

Your Music Links

Here is where I will post links to your music for your music presentation.  You can come to this page and click the link and play the music.

• Manmeet - Radioactive

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iO_WxYC34eM 

• Peyten - Hello by Hedley

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeZ4vXGU_rI

• Yash - Glorious (clean) by Macklemore

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfWgx5tnYOE

• Alyssa - Brave by Sarah Bareilles 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUQsqBqxoR4

• Patricia - The Nights by Aviici

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtF6Jej8yb4 

• Hirsh: Space Song by Beach House

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBtlPT23PTM

• Mikhail: Hooked on a Feeling by Swede

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrI-UBIB8Jk

• Locklan: Eat it by Weird Al 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcJjMnHoIBI

• Jaeger: Distant Shore by Jennifer Paz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9r6Tz818zI 

• Sehej: Something Big by Shawn Mendez

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mytLRy32Viw

• Isabella: Tell Me You Love Me by Galantis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQLlS4l1UJk

• Sean: It's Time by Imagine Drgions Dragons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOatp-OCw3E

• Rylan: Anything (Clean) Hedley

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkhSuK0w5KY

• Brynn: Lonely Tonight by Blake Shelton featuring Ashley Monroe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuPCwvIyHlM

• Tasha: Donna by Richie Valens

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMcHbh6HBDk 

• Dylan: Twist and Shout by the Beatles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-VAxGJdJeQ

• Anrika: Be My Forever Christina Perri 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ljx9W5Gq6c8

• Evan: Children of the Grave by Black Sabbath

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7UZeHvMYZA 

• Kasayah: Hopeful by Bars and Melody

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wT3RhIJZu4k 

• Brooke: Praying by Kesha

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKLHx2dZRhk

• Celina: Fly by Maddie and Tae

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfDr_7LN-Ew

• Keanu: Wake Me Up by Aviici

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcrbM1l_BoI 

• Bodie: See You Again by Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcrbM1l_BoI 

• Aana: Miranda Cosgrove's Leave it to Me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPM05dQgdig

The Verve - Lucky Man

Miranda Lambert Automatic

Your Music Presentation Due June 4th-11th

You can find the criteria, outline and expectations for your music assignment here.
This is due on Monday, June 4th.  Presentations will begin that week.

Step 1: re read the criteria.
Step 2: pick your piece of music (or I will assign you one...and it'll be OLD ;-)
Step 3: find a source for your music that you can access and share at school (if it's Youtube use an URL http://www etc and check it works).

Step 4: start researching using key words and Google Docs to record your Key word outline in
Step 5: record the websites (title and URL) where you get ANY information from ON your key word Google docs before the key-worded information.

e.g: Supertramp Official Website

http://www.supertramp.co.uk

TS Supertramp English band

DS1 formed Cambridge 1982 students

DS2 etc. etc. etc.

Social Studies: oil sands and pipeline controversy

Social Studies: oil sands and pipeline controversy

Media representation and critical thinking.

• Answers the 5W and H (who, what, when, where, why and how) for the article in question
• Connects article to prior learning about:
• Indigenous connections to the land
• Map of Alberta and BC
• Values and Criteria
• Fossil fuel creation
• Makes a reasoned ranking of criteria

Articles

1. https://www.nationalobserver.com/2018/05/02/news/chiefs-133-first-nations-join-fight-against-kinder-morgan-pipeline-and-oilsands
2. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/british-columbia/article-is-the-dream-of-a-first-nations-led-pipeline-plan-more-than-a-big/
3. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/british-columbia/article-bcs-pipeline-reference-case-to-argue-science-not-settled-on-diluted/
4. http://www.timescolonist.com/news/local/the-great-pipeline-debate-is-it-good-for-the-economy-1.23284271
5. http://www.timescolonist.com/news/local/the-great-pipeline-debate-why-isn-t-more-oil-refined-in-b-c-1.23284624
6. http://business.financialpost.com/news/a-lot-of-work-in-the-pipeline-higher-oil-prices-infrastructure-spending-could-fuel-canadian-construction-firms
7. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/the-b-c-pipeline-project-you-ve-never-heard-of-and-why-it-may-succeed-1.4646892
8. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/swan-lake-protester-focusing-oil-pipelines-safer-1.4650601
9. https://www.thestar.com/calgary/2018/05/06/a-warrior-by-heart-pilot-project-hopes-to-make-pipelines-safer-through-indigenous-lens.html
10. http://www.660news.com/2018/05/04/greenpeace-highlights-safety-concerns-trans-mountain-pipeline-expansion/
11. https://globalnews.ca/news/4149689/trans-mountain-pipeline-arguments-pro-against/
12. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/faith-leaders-trans-mountain-protest-burnaby-1.4640502
13. https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/b-c-green-party-leader-calls-alberta-and-saskatchewan-oil-bans-a-bluff-1.3895631
14. http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trans-mountain-pipeline-first-nation-consultations-court-1.4640254
15. https://globalnews.ca/news/4165979/first-nation-support-trans-mountain-pipeline/
16. https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/b-c-s-bitumen-dispute-likely-to-end-up-at-supreme-court-lawyers-1.3907115
17. https://globalnews.ca/news/4185517/federal-government-intervene-trans-mountain-pipeline-reference-question/
18. https://globalnews.ca/news/4185868/commentary-this-pipeline-case-could-drastically-alter-canada/
19. http://nationalpost.com/news/politics/b-c-s-dispute-over-bitumen-control-likely-to-end-up-in-supreme-court-lawyers
20. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/british-columbia/article-what-bc-really-wants-out-of-its-trans-mountain-pipeline-fight/
21. https://www.nationalobserver.com/2018/03/05/news/david-suzuki-fires-death-zone-trudeau-weaver-and-broken-system
22. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/oilsands-reclamation-a-failure-says-ecologist-1.3156500
23. https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/mike-hudema/indigenous-peoples-dont-consent-to-pipelines-its-time-we-list_a_23071485/   
24. http://circlesforreconciliation.ca/2016/10/12/meaning-of-land-for-indigenous-peoples/
25. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/alberta-ecology-professor-sides-with-b-c-on-pipeline-1.4542335
26. http://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/384468-canada-cant-have-it-both-ways-on-pipelines-and-climate
27. https://globalnews.ca/video/4183626/most-canadians-think-trans-mountain-pipeline-expansion-project-should-be-built-poll

Track and Field Techniques...

Florence Griffith–Joyner  December 21, 1959 – September 21, 1998), also known as Flo-Jo, was an American track and field athlete. She is considered the fastest woman of all time based on the fact that the world records she set in 1988 for both the 100 m and 200 m still stand.

Watch these videos.  For two of the videos, tell one thing you learned from the video and how you will incorporate it into your event on Monday.

1. 100m and 200m sprints:

How to run a fast 100m

2.  600m-800m race.

Click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5AnRnTYtRo

3. 1200m -1500m race.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdnzLRfbRK8

4. Shot Put

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHVMufMECPo

5. Discus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8R2FqNhApYI

6. Long Jump

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTTz6RXwDcE

7. Triple Jump

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_X7cLnFCYw

Science - Body Systems

All Systems Go

Read this Background Information:

The main point of this lesson is to understand that there are different systems within the human body and that these systems work independently and together to form a functioning human body. Your body’s organs can’t do their jobs on their own. Everything that one organ does directly affects at least some other organs. And every organ depends on other organs to help do its job. 

You might not give much thought to how your body operates throughout the day. For instance, 206 bones make up the skeletal system that holds us up. Tendons, ligaments, and muscles are part of the muscular system that helps us move around. Body systems, including the digestive, skeletal, respiratory, circulatory, and nervous systems work together. For instance, your stomach, part of the digestive system, sends messages to your brain, part of the nervous system, when your body is hungry. Respiratory and circulatory systems work together to deliver oxygen and nutrients to the entire body. There are different systems within the human body and these systems work independently and together to form a functioning human body.

DIRECTIONS

By doing this online activity, you can learn more about how your organs work together to make up different systems in your body.

The goal of this activity is to drag the correct organs of the body system (that appear in the box on the right) into Arnold's body. If an incorrect organ is placed into the body, all of the organs will move out of Arnold and you will have to start over for that system. 

The Activity You may need to click to enable Adobe Flash.  That's ok, do it...I wonder who won't have read the instructions and will ask me whether they should click the OK...? 

QUESTIONS

When you have finished the activity please answer these questions using CSAs and COPS on the blog.  If you cant' figure out the answer, use the search engine KIDDLE. Remember to use key words from the question.

1. What body system helps humans turn the food they eat into energy?
2. What body system helps humans breathe?
3. What body system controls other body systems?
4. What body system provides structure for the body?
5. What body system allows us to move?
6. What body system includes a transport system (blood) and a pump (the heart) that keeps the transport system moving?
7. Can you think of two body systems that work together?
8. What part of the nervous system is essential for it to work properly?
9. What event could disrupt one or more body systems?
10. What parts of the respiratory system would need to be blocked to not allow any air into this system?

Math - Area, Perimeter, Volume

G6 Students you will do three quick multiple choice quizzes to review perimeter, area and volume.  .

Quiz#8 - Area

Quiz#9 - Perimeter

Quiz#10 - Volume

When you have finished, please post your score on each quiz and record the one question/idea that you struggled the most with and post as a comment.  COPS/CSA please.

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?

EchoYour Personal Bringer of Beauty...

1. The harmonica brings beauty to the lives of all who play it, even during difficult times in their lives. Can you think of something in your life that brought you beauty during a difficult time? Explain. 
2. Next year some of you will be taking band.  After watching the Dover Bay Band perform at Randerson the other day, what sorts of instruments did you imagine that you would like to play, and why?

Echo Post#1

Do questions 1, 2, and either 3 or 4.

1.  “Once, long before enchantment was eclipsed by doubt, an anxious and desperate king awaited the birth of his first child.”  Explain why you think the king was anxious...(Hint: what do all kings want?)
2. The sisters say to Otto, “Your fate is not yet sealed. Even in the darkest night, a star will shine, a bell will chime, a path will be revealed.” What do you think this means to Otto or Friedrich? 
3. Look up information about the town of Trossingen in Germany. Why is this place referred to as a “music town”? Compare what you know about Trossingen (where Friedrich works in a harmonica factory) from the story to what you can learn from information sources.
4. I'm going to ask you to something tough!  Elisabeth has joined the League of German Girls.  In Chapter 7 she gives many reasons as to why this will be an advantage to her.  Defend Elisabeth's point of view.  You may use the book for reference. 

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.

Perspective Art (One and Two Point - 3D Looking).

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

G6 Fractions Practice

Grade 6s try these practice exercises for the Math we have been working on in Chapter 7: Quiz 1 and 2. Post details on one concept that you had difficulty with and whether you have worked it out.

Create A Habitable Planet for Humans

PART 1

As a practice for your upcoming assignment on creating a planet that is habitable by human-like life forms, you are going to experiment with NASA's extreme planet makeover.  You will balance 5 factors to create an earth-like habitable world. 

1) The size of the planet (more gravity, atmosphere...)

2) The type of planet

3) The distance relative to the largest and nearest star (the Goldilocks Zone)

4) What type of star it is close to

5) The planet's age

By adjusting the distance from its star, the star type, the planet’s age and size, you can determine if your planet is habitable [by human-like creatures] or not. When you’re done playing around with the sliders, click on the little camera icon to take a snapshot of your very own planet.  If your planet is too small or too far from a star, then you create a cold icy planet that may not be able to sustain life.  If your planet is too close...singe.

PART 2

After reading the directions below: go to this website.

Your goal is to make a habitable planet by adding enough water, atmosphere and clouds to reach a global average temperature of about 15°C (59°F). You can mix and match, add or remove water, atmosphere or clouds.

• Click an item from the right side (red panel) to add that element
• Click an item in the left to remove that element
• HINT You must put at least 3 clouds by the planet!!

After each click, it will take a few seconds for the planet to reach a stable, balanced temperature.

Post how many years it took you to make the planet livable.  Use a complete sentence and remember your name.

Mortal Engines - Casting The Movie

Please watch the following trailer.  While you watch it, cling on to your seats.  Think about all the characters we have come across in the book so far...

Here is the link if the above video doesn't work: https://youtu.be/fupYIggOq38

Imagine you are Peter Jackson, the director of the this movie, and you are having to do the casting of the characters.

Pick a character from Mortal Engines.
Tom Natsworthy
Hester Shaw
Katherine Valentine
Magnus Crome
Thaddeus Valentine
Anna Fang
Captain Khora
Sythia
Chudleigh Pomeroy

In 2 paragraphs (4-6 complete sentences per paragraph) you are to describe what your character looks like (their physical appearance) and what their personality is like (character traits).

In paragraph one, concentrate on their physical appearance and focus on the following:

1. Height.
2. Colour of hair, eyes, skin.
3. Build (slim, medium, heavy, muscular?).
4. Eyes - intelligent, hawkish, angry, frightening etc...
5. Face - does it have a naturally happy look, sad, angry, alert, closed (hard to read).
6. How do they move - awkwardly, athletically, gracefully...

In paragraph two, focus on their personality and character traits. Think about the following:

1. Personality: would you like to be friends with them? Why? Why not?
2. Humour: Do they have sense of humour?  What is it like?  Would they think you were funny?  Why or why not?
3. Temperament: are they upbeat, lighthearted, or serious and easily offended?

Check out the character traits link above for ideas about personality.

 You must use the COPS and complete sentences...Don't answer this in question format; do write it in paragraph format.

Finally: who would you cast as your character based on your previous description of them? Why do they fit the bill?

Escher Art

We are going to work on some 3D trick art.  MC Escher was an artist who specialized in trick "3D" art.

Here are 4 links we will watch.  You will then be responsible for turning in one piece of art based on your choice from of the 4 videos listed below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZW0evffIxEM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnZQYXPJnXU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAq2X-0FbGM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TRGkdB_Xf8

Review for Next Week's Quiz

You have a test on Thursday.  As review, take Quizzes 1 to 4, 6 and 7, 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...

• Grade 6's go to this page for Chapter 6 (Ratio and Percent) and work through quizzes that cover all of the main subjects in the recent unit in Math that we are currently working through.

M.E.D.U.S.A.

What does the MEDUSA weapon do?

How does it work in your opinion?

Where did it come from? (What is its history?)

What, in your opinion, does the acronym M.E.D.U.S.A, stand for?

2 Sentences per question.  Use descriptive language and your own personal opinion.

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.

IF you need a copy of the book to answer the questions, then go here

MEDUSA

1. MEDUSA is a weapon left over from the 60 Minute War (WW3).  It appears Magnus Crome has the only MEDUSA weapon available.  Why is Magnus Crome, the Lord Mayor of London, using the rediscovered weapon?  What are the dangers of using this weapon.  In your opinion, what should we do about our 60 Minute War weapons?  
2. If you had a choice, would you want to live on a giant Traction City? Or would you prefer the life of an airship captain?

4 Sentences per question.  Use descriptive language and your own personal opinion.

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.

IF you need a copy of the book to answer the questions, then go here

Grade 6 Motion Geometry Part 2...

You have a test tomorrow.  As review, take Quizzes 4, 5 & 6 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...

• Grade 6's go to this page for Chapter 5 (Motion Geometry) and work through quizzes 4, 5 & 6 that cover all of the main subjects in the recent unit in Math that we are currently working through.