Language / Reading Comprehension - Elon Musk - American Entrepreneur

 

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Sesame Street Celebrates 50 years

Sesame Street is turning 50.

The first episode of the beloved children’s television show aired on November 10, 1969.

The show takes place on a fictional (not real) street called Sesame Street. A diverse group of Muppets (puppet characters and adorable fabric monsters) and humans “live” on Sesame Street.

One of the show’s main goals was to bring “all children early and equal access to education, regardless of their financial circumstances.”

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Language / Reading Comprehension - Warren Buffett - Biography

 

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Language - Guide Dogs for the Visually Impaired in Canada

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Social Studies - Communities in the Past and Present - What Was Life Like in the Colonial Time Period?

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Math - Metric Conversions, Area and Perimeter

 

 

Social Studies - Communities of the Past and Present - Henry Settles in Upper Canada

 

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Language - Reading Comprehension - The Reluctant Volunteer

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Social Studies - Communities of the Past & Present - The People of the Eastern Woodlands

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Social Studies / Language - Communities of the Past & Present - Life in Early Canada - Jaime

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Science - Electricity - The Power of Circuits

 

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Language - Reading Comprehension - Google

 

                       

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Students Win Prize for Making "Power Flour" from Insects

Students Win Prize For Making
‘Power Flour’ from Insects

 

"A team of business students from McGill University in Montreal have won $1-million for developing a nutritious, low-cost food made from insects.  Their new “power flour” will help feed poor people around the world."

 

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Writing/Discussion Prompt

1. Summarize the idea in the article in five sentences. Explain the idea and why it would help people who are hungry. 

Why do you think this idea won the million dollar prize? Why would this idea be successful? 
What are some challenges that may arise when people try to implement this idea?

Reading Prompt: Extending Understanding

2. The problem that these students are working to solve is hunger. 

What other social and environmental problems are there in the world? 

Pick one of these problems and brainstorm solutions to make it better.

Eating Insects                                                                     The Environmental Issues of Eating Meat

 

Language - Biography - Gene Simmons: The Rock Legend

 

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Oral Communication - The Vinyl Cafe - The Present

 

     

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Math - Perimeter, Area and Volume

 

Math Worksheet - Perimeter and Area

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Drama - Body Language - Charlie Chaplin - The Lion's Cage

 

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Social Studies - Communities of the Past and Present - Emile's Journey (Transportation)

 

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Language - Reading Comprehension - Overcome

 

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Language - Reading Comprehension - The Scourge and the Hamilton

 

 

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Careers - WHEN I GROW UP - Google Software Engineer / Forensic Investigator

 

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Language / Social Studies - Reading Comprehension - Joseph-Armand Bombardier—Dreamer and Inventor

   

 

Language - Reading Comprehension - Great Minds: Helen Keller

 

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Language - Reading Comprehension - Diamonds

 

                                     

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Social Studies / Language - Henry Hudson

 

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Language - Reading Comprehension - The Beaver

 

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Science - Electricity - Bill Nye

 

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Pablo Picasso

 

                             

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Language / Reading Comprehension - Steven Spielberg: The Master of Filmmaking

    

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Language - Reading Comprehension - A Trip to the Smithsonian

 

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Language - Reading Comprehension - Seat Belts

 

               

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Language / Social Studies - Mount Rushmore: A Marvel Carved in Stone

 

                        

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Language / Social Studies - Gutenberg - The Printing Press

 

                      

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Language / Social Studies - Reading Comprehension - Hyperinflation

 

                            

  

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Language / Health - Reading Comprehension - Immune Troops! Move In!

 

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Science - Hydro Electric Power

 

                           

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Johnny Miles - Marathon Memories - Reading Comprehension Exercise

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Johnny Miles’ Marathon Memories 

A Cape Breton runner still recalls the greatest race of his life.

The oldest living winner of the famous Boston Marathon—Nova Scotia’s celebrated Johnny Miles—still remembered details of his incredible victory 75 years afterward. When I reached him by phone at his retirement home in Hamilton, Ontario, the former runner had just turned 95. During that call in the fall of 2000, the marathon champ shared with me some faded memories of that celebrated race in 1926. He remembered the footwear that carried him to his victory.

“A pair of sneakers,” he said. “They were very light.”

How much did they cost?

“98 cents,” he said.

Imagine that! I chuckled at the price.

Floyd Williston, author of Johnny Miles: Nova Scotia’s Marathon King, told me Miles started running as a boy. The author explained how the young Miles trained while driving the horse-drawn delivery wagon for the local grocery store.

“His father made the reins extra long,” said Floyd. “Miles would get out of the wagon with the long reins and run behind the horse,” he said. “He was often seen like that on the streets of Sydney Mines.”

Young Miles had never run a 42.2-kilometre marathon until that April in 1926, when he showed up at the starting line in Boston. The 20-year-old was going up against his running hero—Albin Stenroos of Finland, the Olympic marathon champion.

The race began. The crowd of runners surged through the Boston streets. Johnny Miles followed his father’s advice to hang back behind the lead runner, Stenroos, and stay alongside the number-two runner in the pack, a runner named Demar. But when he saw that Demar was not about to make a move forward, Miles decided to act alone.

Miles increased his pace, pulling up alongside Stenroos.

“He ran with him for a minute or so,” said Floyd, “and then Johnny noticed that Stenroos was tiring. At Heartbreak Hill he passed Stenroos and never looked back!”

Johnny Miles beat the Olympic champion to the finish line by four minutes! This Nova Scotia runner had set a Boston Marathon record.

Science - Energy 101: Electricity Generation

 

                                    

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Math - Word Problems - Review

 

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Language - Reading Comprehension - Werewolves

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Civil Rights - The Montgomery Bus Boycott

 

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Reading Comprehension - Neil Young: A Maverick in Music & Activism

 

                 

            

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Science - What is electricity?

 

   

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Personification

 

            

Personification - When we talk about non-human things as if they were human, we personify them.  Personification is a kind of metaphor in which you describe an inanimate object, abstract thing, or non-human animal in human terms. It is used to create more interesting and engaging scenes or characters.

Language - Oral Comprehension - Caine's Arcade

 

                        

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Language / Science - Reading Comprehension - The Mystery of Black Holes

          

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Language - Reading Comprehension - Chess

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Online Chess

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Social Studies - Food, Surnames and Immigration

Hello, Grade 6!

I hope all is well.  

Today, we are going to start investigating some of our personal heritage.  When we talk about heritage, in this context, we mean the practices and traditions that have been handed down from the past.  Many traditions in your family are probably practiced because they have been shared from one generation to the next. 

A traditional meal can be something that is also passed down from generation to generation.  Is there a special dish/meal your family enjoys that has been in the family for generations?  Where did that dish/meal come from?  What is the history of that dish?

The practice of using a surname (last name) is a tradition that started in England sometime after 1066 when introduced by Norman barons. Google what your surname means. I found out that Tessier came from "Tisseur", which is a French verb meaning "to weave cloth".  You may find out something interesting about your last name, too. Let me know what you discover in the Google form below. 

You will also find a video below about immigration in Canada.  This is census information collected by the federal government in 2016.  A census is “an official count or survey of a population, typically recording various details of individuals.”  The word “enumerate” is used in the video, which, in this case, will be defined as counting and detailing information about people.

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Welcome to Canada: 150 years of immigration

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Language - Reading Comprehension - A Dry, Hot Land

 

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Language - Reading Comprehension - The Asian Carp

 

             

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