Articles of Interest

Here you can find articles of interest and links organized by topic. Please email me if you have any more articles or links to suggest!

***These articles do not necessarily represent the opinions of Ms. D or our class, and are simply being used to generate discussion and talk about current events from varying points of view.***

Also, please do let me know if any links no longer work.

General Research Resources:
Suncrest Website with Library Link, World Book Online
Dictionary at Dictionary.com
Research at DK Find Out!
All About the Body Kids Health
Research at Kids.Gov
Animal Research at Animal Facts for Kids
Endangered Species Info at Kids Planet
Bibliography Tool Easy Bib
Great Websites for Kids Collection of Links
Travel the World Global Trek Scholastic
CIA World Factbook
Ask a Biologist Science Information for Kids
Chemistry Chem for Kids
Center for Game Design University of Washington Games and Coding
USGS Butterflies and Moths of North America
NASA Climate Kids
USGS Earthquakes for Kids
San Francisco General Science/Maker Fun Exploratorium
NASA Hubble Site
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Online
NASA Space Place

Migration:
Ted Ed Bird Migration Perilous Journey
TED The Story of Human Migration Your Story in a Tooth
Ted Ed Bizzare and Ancient Theories of Bird Migration
Ted Ed What does it mean to be a refugee?
Citizenship Canada Canada’s Immigration System
Reifel Bird Sanctuary Resource Booklets

NPR More Than 3,100 Migrants Died in 2017
NPR Ancient Human Remains Document Journey from Asia to America
Wall Street Journal Some Migrants in Germany Want to Go Home
Washington Post This Amazing Map Shows Where Most of Humanity Lives
People Movin Migration of Humans Chart
Quartz Online Where Everyone in the World is Migrating in One Gorgeous Chart
United Nations Population Fund Migration Resources
Globe and Mail Editorial The Real Reason Migrants Risk Everything
BBC News Are More People on the Move Than Ever Before?
Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 Virtual Immigration Museum
National Geographic The World’s Congested Migration Routes in Five Maps
National Geographic The Genographic Project
The Economist Under Age and on the Move
PBS News Hour No Country for Lost Kids
Scholastic Meet Young Immigrants
Smithsonian The Great Human Migration
National Geographic The Restless Gene
National Geographic Monarch Migration
Monarch Migration Video YouTube
You Tube The Greatest Migration in the World

FRENCH
French Basic Lessons and Games
Babbel How Many People Speak French?
WorldData Worldwide Distribution of French
World Population Review French Speaking Countries
French with Alexa French Alphabet Sounds
Blabber Beasts French Greetings with Jean
Blabber Beasts French Days of the Week with Adam
Blabber Beasts French Numbers with Christophe
Blabber Beasts French School Objects with Margot
MLS Natasha Greetings Song for Children
Learn French Lab Greetings Song More Complex
French Accents Channel French Phonetics
French with Pierre YouTube Phonetics and Sounds
French with Alexa Parts of the Body Part 1
French with Alexa Parts of the Body Part 2
FrenchU 32 French-Speaking Countries Around the World
Learning Tail France for Kids
Learning Tail French Food
Learning Tail French Regions

Mindfulness and Social-Emotional Learning:
Mindful.org Using the RAIN Method When You Feel Overwhelmed
Mindful.org How Stress Can Make You Sick
MindShift Why Emotional Learning Is As Important as the ABCs
TedEdX Teach Girls Bravery, Not Perfectionism
Harvard Business Review If You’re Not Outside Your Comfort Zone, You Won’t Learn Anything
Psychology Today 3 Essential Breathing Techniques for Anxiety
NPR Sleepy Teens Struggle to Learn and Control Emotions at School
CBS Student Spends Months Making Valentines for Everyone in the School

Systems Unit and Brain Lessons:
Harvard Health Foods linked to better brain power
Healthline Worst Foods for Your Brain
Harvard Health 12 Ways to Keep Your Brain Young
Harvard Health 6 Simple Steps to Keep Your Mind Sharp at Any Age
Legacy Health Keeping the Brain Healthy

Systems Unit, General Human Body Information:
KidsHealth Circulatory System
KidsHealth Digestive System
KidsHealth Urinary System
KidsHealth Respiratory System
KidsHealth Muscular System
KidsHealth Nervous System
KidsHealth Endocrine System
KidsHealth Skeletal System
About Kids Health Heart Problems
Children’s Heart Network Congenital Heart Disease and Surgery
American Heart Association General Heart Information
British Heart Foundation Heart
NHS Heart Information How It Works
Heart and Stroke Foundation Get Healthy
Heart and Stroke Foundation Canada
Medline Plus Congenital Heart Diseases
CBC Kids How the Heart Works
Kids Health Kidneys
National Kidney Foundation All About Kidneys
NIDDK Kidney Diseases in Children
Kidney Foundation of Canada
About Kids Health Kidney Disease and Diabetes
CYH Kids Health Kidneys
Healthy Children Chronic Kidney Disease
KidsHealth What is Blood?
CYH Kids Health Blood
About Kids Health What is Complete Blood Count CBC
Medline What is Blood Made Of
American Society of Hematology What is Blood Made Of
Canadian Blood Services What is Blood Made Of
Science Kids Blood Facts
St. Louis Hospital Blood Clotting Disorders
Heart and Stroke Foundation High Blood Pressure in Children
Neuroscience for Kids Blood Supply to Brain
Kids Health Brain
CYH The Brain
About Kids Health Overview of the Brain
Neuroscience for Kids Brain Right Down the Middle
American Museum of Natural History Brain for Kids
Sick Kids Brain and Mental Health
Mayo Clinic Pediatric Brain Tumours
Science Kids Human Body Facts
CBC Kids How Does My Brain Work?
KidsHealth Lungs
CYH The Lungs
Science Kids Facts About Lungs
Lung Association Breathe
American Lung Association US
Medline Lung Diseases
Health Link BC Lung Cancer
NIH Asthma and Lung Problems
Healthy Children Pneumonia
Government of Canada Chronic Respiratory Diseases
About Kids Health Liver, Gall Bladder, Pancreas
Columbia University Pancreas
John Hopkins Pancreas
Mayo Clinic Pancreatitis
National Pancreas Foundation
Kids Health Liver
CYH The Liver
Children’s Hospital Pittsburgh What does the liver do?
TED Ed What does the liver do?
Stanford Children’s Health How the Liver Works
Canadian Liver Foundation Your Liver
Kids Health The Eyes
CYH How the Eyes Work
About Kids Health How Eyes Work
Neuroscience for Kids The Eye
Children’s U Manchester How the Eye Works
American Optometric Association How the Eyes Work
National Eye Institute Kids
Science Museum How do your eyes work?
Kids Health Skin
American Academy of Dermatology About Skin
CYH Your Skin
American Skin Association Your Skin
American Cancer Society Skin and Infections
Johns Hopkins Medical Skin Anatomy
Kids Health Immune System
CYH Immune System
Stanford Children’s Health The Immune System
Immune System History of Vaccines
Cancer Research Institute How the Immune System Works
TED Ed How Does Your Immune System Work?
CYH Your Intestines
CHP Differences in Small and Large Intestines
Science Kids Digestion Facts for Kids
About Kids Health GI Tract (digestion)
Stanford Common Children’s Digestion
PBS Digestive System Video
NIH Water and Your Digestive System
NCBI How does the stomach work
Mayo Clinic Slideshow on how digestion works
Johns Hopkins How digestion works
Prongo Human Body Game
Franklin Institute How Your Body is Like a Factory
Anatomy Arcade Match a Body Systems Memory Game
Nat Geo Kids Facts About the Human Body
DK Find Out Human Body
TEDED TED Video Lessons on Health
Looking Inside the Human Body How Ultrasound Works
Canada’s Food Guide
Popular Science Eating Carbs Helped Us Develop Big Brains
Mindful Blog Meet Your Second Brain: The Gut
Kids Health How the Body Works Links
Nanooze Kids Site for Nanotechnology
Mindful Blog The Power of Play
Huffington Post The Science of Starvation
Huffington Post Here’s the Real Reason Fingers Shrivel Up Like Prunes
Science Alert, Business Insider All the Ways Caffeine Affects Your Body in One Handy Infographic
NY Times Magazine Can the Bacteria in Your Gut Explain Your Mood?
NY Times Blog What Diseases Can You Get From a Water Fountain?
NPR Education If These Bones Could Talk: The Stories Human Skeletons Can Tell
NPR Oregon Teen Has Bubonic Plague
NY Times Well Section Cutting Sugar Improves Children’s Health in Just 10 Days
Ted Ed How Stress Can Make You Sick
The Guardian The Shorter You Sleep the Shorter You Live
Smithsonian Your Childhood Experiences Can Change Your DNA
LabRoots What Would Happen if You Never Showered
Ted You Can Grow New Brain Cells as an Adult: Here’s How
NPR How Mind Controlled Robot Suits Could Enhance Our Limbs
Wired Vaping May Harm Your Blood Flow Even Without Nicotine
My Met Daily Bread Kids Around World Photographed With Daily Diet
NPR Blind from a Bad Diet?
BBC Blobology is New Science and Changing Biology
Globe and Mail Designing a Town for Dementia
Wired A Newfound Neuron Might Keep the Brain in Check
Mindful Why We Worry All the Time
UBC TREK Can you catch heart disease?

Human Rights and Inventions Related Links:

YouTube 30 Articles of Human Rights
United Nations Committee on the Rights of a Child
Unicef Australia Child Rights Information
BC Human Rights Tribunal My Human Rights and Duties
YouTube Bill Nye Science Guy Sun Facts
YouTube Minute Physics Why is the Sun Yellow and the Sky Blue?
YouTube Here Comes the Sun: Crash Course for Kids on Sun
YouTube Bill Nye The Science Guy Reflection Refraction of Light
National Post Insect Lovers Unite After Girl Teased for Her Hobby
PBS A Growing Catastrophic Food Crisis Sows Unrest in Venezuela
BBC Obese Patients Surgery Ban to be Reviewed
Washington Post Meet the Parents Who Won’t Let Their Children Study Literature
Time Magazine Screens in Schools are a $60 Billion Hoax
Scientific American The Price of Solar is Declining to All Time Lows
CBC News Parents Angry Montreal Teachers Wore Headdresses on First Day of School
CBC News David Suzuki’s World View Profoundly Influenced by Haida Ties
Next Avenue 12 Year Old Develops Alzheimer’s App
Smithsonian Smart News President Obama Just Created World’s Largest Protected Marine Area
Ted Talks Education How the Food You Eat Affects Your Brain
Washington Post Meet the Teen Who Just Won $150,000 for Inventing a Device to Diagnose Lung Disease
Smithsonian A Potato Battery Can Light up a Room for Over a Month
Goodnet 15 Genius Inventions That Make the World a Better Place
Fast Coexist World Changing Ideas of 2015
Imagination Foundation World Cardboard Challenge
Amnesty International Home Page
Amnesty International More Proof That Kids Can Change the World
Mashable Seven Simple Inventions Changing the World
Nesta Digital Social Innovation and Human Rights
Dogo News Panama’s Plastic Bottle Village
Child Rights Connect Child Rights Home Page
Human Rights Watch Ending Child Marriage
Kids Go Global Human Rights
YouTube Personal Project Rights of a Child Stop Motion Video
Human Rights Watch Children’s Rights
Human Rights Watch World Report 2016
Youth for Human Rights Home Page
Amnesty International Country Profiles
First Peoples of Canada Canadian First Peoples
BC Government First Nations Negotiations
Globe and Mail First Nations in Northern BC Worry Site C Dam Will Obliterate Their Heritage
Globe and Mail Amnesty International Calls for Halt to B.C.’s Site C Dam
Global TV Everything You Need to Know About Site C Dam
UBC Student Research The Site C Dam
Wilderness Committee Stop the Site C Dam
CBC Site C Dam: How We Got Here (2014)
CBC Canadian Prof Homa Hoodfar, jailed in Iran, falls ill in solitary confinement
CBC Clam Beds at Risk After Oil Spill
CBC Art, Appropriation and the Damaging Effect on Indigenous Artists
NY TImes A Museum About Rights and Uncomfortable Canadian Truths
PBS News Hour As Pipelines Projects Grow So Do Protests

Problem Solving Unit (CSI, Discrimination, Problem-Solving Tools):
Komagata Maru Grade 4 Video
You Tube Remembering Komagata Maru
History of Metropolitan Vancouver Komagata Maru
CBC Komagata Maru 100 Years Later
CBC Komagata Maru: Justin Trudeau to Apologize
CBC Komagata Maru: Descendants Surprised By Stories
CBC Komagata Maru Memorial Defaced in Vancouver
Canadian Encyclopedia on Komagata Maru
Komagata Maru Continuing the Journey
OHRC Komagata Maru as a Violation of Human Rights
CBC Learning A Canada’s History Japanese Internment
Virtual Museum Aya’s Story
Japanese Canadian History. NET
Canadian Encyclopedia Beyond the Tears: Japanese Internment
SEDAI Japanese Canadian Legacy Project
Pictures of Japanese Internment Sites in BC from book Vanishing British Columbia
National Post BC Government Apologizes for Japanese Internment
National Post UBC Awarding Japanese Canadians Degrees 70 Years After Internment
Ties that Bind Website on Chinese Canadians
Canadian Encyclopedia on Chinese Head Tax
CBC Chinese Head Tax Reparations Called For
Globe and Mail PM Offers Apology and Symbolic Payments for Chinese Head Tax
TC2 Background History on Chinese Head Tax
and Response to Head Tax
Historica Canada Building of the CPR
CBC Archives The Personal Impact of Racism
CBC Digital Archives Chinese Immigration Not Welcome Anymore
You Tube History of Immigration in Canada
Courts of BC Guide to the BC Court System
You Tube Rethinking Thinking Ladder of Inference Video
Kids Health BMI for Applied Math Calculations
Mystery Net Kids Mysteries Site
Stories to Grow By From the Elephant Pit — Debate Story
Stories Jack and the Beanstalk — Debate Story
Stories The Master Cat Puss in Boots — Debate Story
Rice University CSI The Experience Units Online
Smithsonian Online Thieves Stole Valuable Books
Smithsonian Online Literacy Tests and Asian Exclusion in American Immigration 1917
NPR Fred Korematsu Day (Japanese Internment in USA)
Ted Ex What does it mean to be a refugee?
NY Times Family DNA Searches Seen as Crime-Fighting Tool and Intrusion on Rights

Math Games and Practice:

You Tube How to Play Zero
WikiHow How to Play Uno
You Tube Royal Institute What is Zero?
Mocomi Who Invented Zero?
Slideshare The Importance of Zero
Ted Ed Why Can’t You Divide by Zero
You Tube Numberphile Zero Factorial — advanced math only

You Tube How to Play Rock Me Archimedes
Ted Ed Story of Archimedes Principle
Ted Ed How Taking a Bath Led to the Archimedes Principle
Famous Mathematicians Archimedes
Kiddle Facts on Archimedes

Kingdomino How to Play Kingdomino
Math is Fun Math Trainer to Practice Multiplication Tables
Math is Fun Tricks for Learning Multiplication Tables
Math is Fun How to do Long Multiplication (numbers with more than one digit)
We Are Teachers 22 Fun Hands-On Ways to Study Multiplication

Practice Multiplication Through Repetition and Visuals:
Mathigon Math For Love and YouTube Multiplication By Heart Instructions
Use the hard copy cards in the classroom, OR, here is the Online version of Multiplication By Heart

You Tube Domain of Science Map of Mathematics
Math Games Classify Numbers (multiple levels!)
Ted Ed A Brief History of Number Systems
Teacher Tube Math History of Math
Ted Talk Magic of Fibonacci Numbers
Colin Todds You Tube Number Types Math Song
Math is Fun Number Types
Math is Fun Number Topics
All Math Tricks The Concept of Number System in Mathematics