Today's schedule is B-AG-A-D-C (please note blocks are shortened for an extended AG - Grades 8-11 for programming and grade 12 for graduation)
B Block Geography 12 -
Today we'll do a brief introduction to topographic maps and I'll show you how to
identify location, estimate area, calculate slope, and determine direction on
them. We'll look at large versions of the 1:50000 scale topographic maps for the
Comox Valley (92F10 and 92F11). For a large copy of the Forbidden Plateau 92F11
map click on the Online - En ligne (PDF or TIFF) at the
GEOSCAN
Fast-Link site. Using these maps we'll try to make sense of topographic maps
in partners.
Here are a few webpages to help:
Natural
Resources Canada Toporama
Reading
Topographic Maps
Mount
Union College Reading Topo Maps
United States
Geological Survey Reading Topo Maps
Idaho
State University Interpreting Topo Maps
National Wildfire
Coordinating Group Reading Topographic maps pdf
Natural
Resources & Water Queensland Australia Interpreting Topo Maps pdf
How
Stuff Works Reading a Topographic Map
How
to Read Topographical Maps
A Block Social Studies 11 - Today we'll continue looking at the "legislative process" - creating laws in
Canada.
An idea to make a new law or to change an
existing law starts out as a "bill." Each bill goes through several stages to
become law.
- At first reading, the bill is
considered read for the first time and is printed. There is no debate.
- At second reading, Members debate
the principle of a bill — is the idea behind it sound? Does it meet people's
needs?
- If a bill passes at second reading, it goes to a committee of the House. Committee members
study the bill carefully. They hold hearings to gather information. They can ask
for government officials and experts to come and answer questions. The committee
can propose amendments, or changes, to the bill. When a committee has finished
its study, it reports the bill back to the House. The entire House can then
debate it. During report stage debate, Members can suggest other amendments to
the bill.
- Once report stage is over, the bill is called for third reading debate. Members who voted for
the bill at second reading may sometimes change their minds at third reading
after seeing what amendments have or have not been made to the bill.
- After a bill has passed third reading in the House of Commons, it goes
through a similar process in the Senate.
- Once both Chambers pass the bill in the same form, it is given Royal Assent
and becomes law.
You will have to draft a simplified bill that you
would like to see made law, where you'll write the idea in a simple sentence or
two and then use the
Make It Law handout to organize your ideas.
After this, you'll create a comic strip demonstrating the process of how a Bill
becomes a Law in Canada for next Tuesday.
D Block Social Studies 10 - Today we'll continue with our work in the Geographic Understandings book
(they're the green geography books in the class). Today I'd like to work on map symbols, relief and contours. You'll need to work
through the following:
1. Page 20 questions 1, 2, and 3
After this, I'm going to ask you to
draw two maps for me, so you'll need to work through questions 1 and 2 from page
21. Read the descriptions and then draw both maps...
The Natural Resources Canada website Toporama is a great resource to understand
topographic map basics. Check out their
Tips and Hints site here. There is a good
tutorial on building topographic profiles on the Idaho State University
Department of Geosciences
website here. There's also a great tutorial
here as well.
Topographic
Map symbols can be found here.
