Friday, February 14. 2014

Happy Valentines Day Family

Today's schedule is A-AG-B-C-D

A Block Social Studies 11 - Today we'll have the block to work on the bill into law comic / cartoon that we started yesterday. Don't forget to use the Make it Law sheet we used to form ideas yesterday and the legislative process steps I outlined with you in class. If you need help look in your Counterpoints textbook and the Parliament of Canada "Follow That Bill" website.

B Block Geography 12 - Today we'll finish our work on the Prince Rupert topographic map from the Canadian Landscape (pages 20 - 23). We finished question 1 yesterday and you'll have time today to work on the rest of the assignment that will be due tomorrow (questions 2, 3, 4 a & b, 5, 7 a,b,d & e, and 9 a & b). Use Google Earth or Google Maps to help you with this assignment and don't forget here are a few webpages to help:
Natural Resources Canada Toporama
Reading Topographic Maps
United States Geological Survey Reading Topo Maps
Idaho State University Interpreting Topo Maps
Natural Resources & Water Queensland Australia Interpreting Topo Maps pdf

I will also be collecting your Week 2 packages in class to mark today.

D Block Social Studies 10 - Today you are going to continue your work on the Summerland topographic map (82E/12). The questions you need to work on are 2 (a&b), 3 (c&d), 4, 5 (a-e), 6, 7, 8 (a-c, omit d, e-g) on pages 50-52 of the Geographic Understandings text. Remember For questions 5 & 8 consider the following agribusinesses in Summerland:
Dirty Laundry Vineyards
Sumac Ridge Estate Winery
Sonoran Estate Winery