Grade 5 Brainpop - Force and Work

Grade 5 - You will be using Brainpop today.

1. Click on this link.
2. Click on "Log in"
3. Log into Brainpop by using the Username and Password written on the whiteboard.
4. Go to the SEARCH box and type in "Work".  
5. Review the video on Work.
6. Click on ACTIVITIES and fill in the definitions from the movie.  COPS/CSA!
7. After you've completed the definitions - type your NAME at the bottom.
8. PRINT the ACTIVITY.
9. Click the BACK button
10. Click on QUIZ & choose the Graded Quiz.
11. Take the Quiz
12. When finished choose EMAIL your Quiz.
13. TYPE your name. Copy and Paste this Email Address: pnixon@sd68.bc.ca
14. SEND to me.  (No need to fill out your class).
15. Move on to this BLOG ENTRY.

Grade 6 Brainpop - Extreme Environments: Deserts

Grade 6 - You will be using Brainpop today.

1. Click on this link.
2. Click on "Log in"
3. Log into Brainpop by using the Username and Password written on the whiteboard.
4. Go to the SEARCH box and type in "Deserts" (Not desserts!).  
5. Review the video on deserts.
6. Click on ACTIVITIES and fill in the definitions from the movie.  COPS/CSA!
7. After you've completed the definitions - type your NAME at the bottom.
8. PRINT the ACTIVITY.
9. Click the BACK button
10. Click on QUIZ & choose the Graded Quiz.
11. Take the Quiz
12. When finished choose EMAIL your Quiz.
13. TYPE your name. Copy and Paste this Email Address: pnixon@sd68.bc.ca
14. SEND to me.  (No need to fill out your class).
15. Move on to this BLOG ENTRY.

Motion Geometry

Grade 5s: please click here for your review quizzes.

Grade 6s: please click here for your review quizzes.

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.

Grade 6: Find Your Fit: Occupations of Interest

Grade 6s: you will be going to a presentation at the old Mount Benson School next week called hosted by WORK BC called Find Your Fit.  It is about finding out what sorts of careers are out there, and perhaps finding an occupation that might interest you.  This is part of the new curriculum.  Many students leave school and don't have a clue what they want to do in life.  Not you! Let's get started.

1. Write your name on your handout in pencil.
2. Read your Occupations of Interest handout cover to cover.
3. Fill in Page 2.
4. Click on this link and enter the occupation you are most interested in into the JOB TITLE search engine.
5. Answer the questions on page 4 of your handout.

THEN: Post the details that you recorded on Page 4 of your handout.  Copy and Paste the questions in italics from below and add your answers as you wrote them in your handout.  COPS!!!  Don't forget to check out other students' answers when you've posted.

Select one in-demand occupation from the list and write it the space below.

What are the general responsibilities of a person working in this occupation.

What are the essential skills required for this occupation?

What is the median salary in B.C. for this occupation?

What are the top regions in BC where the outlook for this occupation is promising?

Science Review Quizzes

Grade five and six students:below are two links to a Science review quiz for you to do to help you study for your upcoming quiz in class on Friday.

You don't need to type your name into the box, or print the quiz.  Just click check your work, when you are done.  Then make a note of any answers you got wrong.

1) Post below and tell which question(s) you answered incorrectly.
2) Tell what you think the correct answer is, and
3) Tell why you think it is the correct answer (don't say that you know it is, tell why it is).

Grade 5 Quiz on Forces

Grade 6 Quiz (only answer qustions 3, 4, 5, and 9).

A Night Divided by Jennifer A Neilsen

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 :-)