This week, we will analyze how an unlikely animal is becoming a hero in our quest to find a vaccine for COVID 19.
Horseshoe crabs are critical in the battle to stop the Covid-19 pandemic, but these animals face their own challenges
Checking for Understanding
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Word Detective
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Crab Collection
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This week, you will be learning about what is HEALTH and what are the different topics you will study in this class. You will be using an online textbook to complete some activities.
https://www.whiteplainspublicschools.org/cms/lib/NY01000029/Centricity/Domain/263/Lifetime%20Health%20Book.pdf
Click the link above to get to your online Health textbook
Watch the video and stop after each segment and answer the questions on Activity # 2
Video link: https://youtu.be/ZA09vyY76g8
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This week, we will look at the what exactly is a virus and in particular - COVID-19 virus and what is being done to find a vaccine.
Click this link if you want to see the magazine version
https://scienceworld.scholastic.com/issues/2019-20/051120/understanding-a-new-virus.html#1120L
Student Classroom Code: turtles2020
Read more about how the first COVID vaccine was approved and how will be distributed
Click this link to see article on the Scholastic Magazine website
scienceworld.scholastic.com/pages/news/2020-21/us-authorizes-first-vaccine-for-covid-19.html
Classroom code: turtles2020
This week, we will analyze what are infectious diseases and what are the steps we can take to avoid being infected by them. You will be using Chapter 13 (Be sure to click the link below to get to your Health book in order to complete the activities.
https://www.whiteplainspublicschools.org/cms/lib/NY01000029/Centricity/Domain/263/Lifetime%20Health%20Book.pdf
Click this link to get to your Health textbook
This week, we will continue to look at the similarities and differences of bacteria and viruses and research which diseases are bacterial infections and which ones are viral infections.
Answer the following questions and share your completed work at gmoya@lausd.net
Answer the following questions and share your completed work at gmoya@lausd.net
This week, we will use our Health textbook to look at the differences between bacterial diseases and viral diseases as well as learn what is being done by scientists to protect us.
Click this link for your Health Book
https://www.whiteplainspublicschools.org/cms/lib/NY01000029/Centricity/Domain/263/Lifetime%20Health%20Book.pdf
Reading Activity - you will need to read this article to complete questions in Activity # 3