Eco Our School Teacher Tips Animal Feature shutterstock.com Panabaker Every Class is Supposed to Press Have DPA on Non-gym Days, Coronavirus vs. Do you? ------ by Alex L. and Anjali N. ------- Society Numerous classes throughout our school seem to be denied the opportunity to exercise, ------ by Tiffany T. and Rowan S. -------- why? The Ministry of Education website states “The Daily Physical Activity Policy (DPA) will I’m sure that ensure that elementary students have a everyone here minimum of twenty minutes of moderate to has heard the vigorous physical activity each school day.” information Ms. Allan agrees with them when she stated, circling around “students are required by the Ministry of Education, not by me or the principal, to have about the coronavirus twenty minutes of DPA.” However, most that has been spreading bat (https://www.cdc.gov). It classes don’t receive any DPA throughout the throughout the world. But do is, however, not the exact week. you really know what it is, how same virus as the 2019-2020 it works, and what we can do coronavirus, as the 2019-nCoV Some classes only receive one hundred sixty to help prevent the spread of is a novel virus, meaning that minutes of physical activity a week, that is two this disease? it has never been seen before. gym and one fitness period. But many teachers are not providing the minimum Coronavirus is not actually How is the Coronavirus amount of DPA. Students are supposed to the real name of this virus. transmitted? It is seemingly receive twenty minutes of DPA, excluding the Coronavirus is a family of transmitted when the days students do not have a physical activity viruses that includes the infected person sneezes or class (fitness or in the gym). DPA should be common cold and flu. The coughs, and droplets of snot supplied by teachers during classroom scientific name for this or saliva land on another instructional time. disease is 2019-nCoV, which person. What are the explains why we’re calling it symptoms? The Coronavirus the coronavirus, because it’s has the same symptoms of such a mouthful. the common cold or flu. The infected person normally has About eighteen years ago a fever, a headache, feels there was an outbreak of a very tired, and starts similar strain of coronavirus coughing dryly. It also called SARS. Seemingly very includes shortness of breath similar to 2019-nCoV, it was an and trouble breathing. About airborne respiratory disease one in four people require Some suggestions for teachers looking for a that infected 8,096 people hospitalisation and in quick DPA activity are: Just Dance on Youtube, and killed 774. It was a extremely severe cases, a quick workout, or run a few laps around the Zoonose virus, which means school. Teachers can also incorporate DPA that it was transmitted from into their lessons! an animal to a human, the CONTINUED ON PG. 2 animal specifically being a CONTINUED ON PG. 3 Panabaker Press Pg. 2 Coronavirus vs. Society CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 it shuts down your lungs and essentially suffocates the infected person. According to the New York Times, there have been over 7,711 people infected and 170 deaths (as of January 30th 2020.) The virus originated in Wuhan, a city in the province of Hubei, China, when on December 31st, a cluster of pneumonia The Chinese government is also no medications, though doctors say cases were reported by the building two new hospitals in Wuhan that the first vaccinations to prevent government of Hubei, where many of as the current hospitals are the coronavirus may be available in the cases were traced back to the overwhelmed by the amount of as soon as three months. Doctors South China Seafood Wholesale Market infected citizens, and they can’t encourage people to reinforce in Wuhan. At the market there were wild handle the influx of people. They are hygiene and hand washing to stop the animals, such as chickens, bats, rabbits also evacuating foreigners back to spread of the virus. But don’t worry, and snakes, which are suspected to be their home countries, where they are most people infected with the the most likely cause of 2019-nCoV, as then placed under quarantine and Coronavirus only have symptoms of they were of previous coronaviruses undergo a series of tests. As of what seems to relate to the common SARS and MERS. January 29th, the virus has infected cold. Sorry guys, but just because you people in Australia, Canada, France, have a cold doesn’t mean you are To prevent further spread of this illness, Japan, Malaysia, Nepal, Singapore, infected with the Coronavirus and get China has placed the citizens of Wuhan South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, the to stay home. However, talking to your under what is effectively a mass United States and Vietnam. parents and seeking medical advice quarantine. The citizens cannot travel from a doctor is best. So stay safe, under any circumstances, and all public Can we prevent the Coronavirus? As wash your hands, and scientists are Lunar New Year celebrations and other it is a new strain in this family of working really hard on preventing public gatherings were cancelled. diseases, there are no vaccines and anyone else from getting sick! Quantum Tunneling --------by Yassine B. -------- Imagine that you are pushing a heavy For example, if you had a closed box The longer the barrier, the faster the cart full of things, and you suddenly with a sock in it you wouldn’t know the particles go. come across a hill, which you’re going color of the sock, or where the sock is, to have go across. But what if I told until you open the box. You can, mountain you there was a way across, without however, calculate the probability of it going up. This answer will be so being in a particular place or even it’s strange that it doesn’t even make color. Common sense, right? There’s sense. The answer, you go through the just one problem: there is also a hill. What’s really weird is that you don’t probability of the sock not even being have to touch the hill to go through it. in the box. The first question that pops up in your Imagine that there is a car being You’re probably wondering; “but does mind is probably, “how is that crash tested. There is a wall it rams this even exist in our world?” The possible?” This topic has its own field into and on the other side of this wall, answer is yes. A very simple example of science quantum physics, which is there is a space. Pretend this car is is a window. The only reason we see called quantum tunneling. It doesn’t going at the speed of light (299792458 light coming from windows, is the light make sense until you know the theory metres per second). Before it hits the particles tunnel through the window. of quantum physics, and actually, no wall, there is a chance of it going to part of quantum physics will make the other side of the wall, without A drawback of quantum tunneling is sense until you know some basic rules. touching it, which it should eventually. that to successfully do it, the energy of The weirdest part of quantum the object has to be greater than the The main thing you need to know tunneling breaks the laws of physics. energy of the barrier. Also, the object about quantum physics is that no You probably thought the speed of needs to be close to or at the speed of particle is actually in a location until light was the fastest thing ever, but it is light. you measure its location, and you only not. In quantum tunneling, the know the probability of it being in a particles that travel through the Soon, maybe someday, we will be able place before measuring its location. barrier, for example the wall, travel to tunnel through that hill you have to faster than the speed of light. cross! Panabaker Press Pg. 3 Every Class is Supposed to Have DPA on non-gym Days, Do you? -------- by Alex L. and Anjali N. -------- Numerous classes throughout our school seem Many students find it a bit unfair that they do to be denied the opportunity to exercise, why? not receive their DPA. When we asked students The Ministry of Education website states “The if they were given DPA, most of them Daily Physical Activity Policy (DPA) will ensure responded with “no” or “no, we don’t.'' We also that elementary students have a minimum of asked students whether or not they wished for twenty minutes of moderate to vigorous DPA and one said “I do wish for DPA and I think physical activity each school day.” Ms. Allan it's vomitrocious that we don't get our DPA.” We agrees with them when she stated, “students also questioned a student who does receive are required by the Ministry of Education, not some DPA, what kind of activities they did. They by me or the principal, to have twenty minutes answered, “we usually play soccer, volleyball, of DPA.” However, most classes don’t receive kickball, or sometimes our teacher has a any DPA throughout the week. workout.” Some classes only receive one hundred sixty We posed the question, “Are you frequently told minutes of physical activity a week, that is two by students that they don’t receive DPA?” to our gym and one fitness period.