D & C Blocks Environmental and Social Sciences - So we lose you first block this morning to Mr. Jamieson and Mr. Merrick for the Careers course that all grade 11 students must complete...enjoy it! During C block you'll come back to Benton's room and we'll see how can we test water using Chemistry to assess water quality. In small groups you will test a water sample for Dissolved Oxygen, Nitrates, Phosphates and Alkalinity using LaMotte Water testing kits...this is using "western" science practice to determine if water is safe (potable) to consume. Involving First Nations communities in research that respects their worldviews, ontologies, epistemologies and knowledges is part of what would be "two-eyed" thinking about water quality and management issues. This requires both changing the western approach to scientific research, and identifying practical pathways for using Indigenous research methods to inform water policy. Check out Decolonizing Water for more info on this
With the remaining time you may work on your Dakota Access Pipeline / Standing Rock worldview conflict over water questions:
- Robert D. Bullard, the dean of the school of public affairs at Texas Southern University, defines environmental justice like this: Environmental justice is defined as the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, or income with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies. Is the Dakota Access pipeline an example of environmental injustice? Why or why not?
- Is completing the pipeline - or stopping the pipeline - necessarily a win-lose situation? Is there a compromise solution that might please both protesters and pipeline supporters? And if not, is there a resolution that at least might be deemed fair and equitable considering all of the circumstances?
B Block Human Geography - Today and tomorrow we're in the library looking at the 2018 World Population Data (using both the PRB Interactive Map and the pdf data sheet) to see current trends and numbers in world population.
You have a webquest with questions in your week 3 work package to answer. You may work with a partner to find answers to the 17 questions but you all need to record answers. Use:
2018 World Population Data Map
2018 World Population Datasheet
For the last question you'll need to choose one of the following demographic variables using the World Population Data Sheet and create a choropleth map showing the distribution of that indicator on a world outline map. The PRB World Population Data map is an example of a Choropleth Map. Use it to help you create yours, just select the indicator you wish to create and it will make a choropleth map that you can recreate.
Infant Mortality
Birth Rate
Death Rate
Total Fertility Rate
Life Expectancy
The instructions are in the week 3 package but feel free to ask me in class today. Good luck!
A Block Physical Geography - Today we'll work on igneous rocks and plutonic features. We'll have a diagram to complete and then there will be three questions to work on (12, 13, &14 from page 366 in your Geosystems textbook). Don't forget that Intrusive igneous rocks crystallize below Earth's surface, and the slow cooling that occurs there allows large crystals to form. Examples of intrusive igneous rocks are diorite, gabbro, granite, pegmatite, and peridotite. Extrusive igneous rocks erupt onto the surface, where they cool quickly to form small crystals. Some cool so quickly that they form an amorphous glass. These rocks include andesite, basalt, dacite, obsidian, pumice, rhyolite, and scoria, Before we do that let's see what Bill Nye has to tell us about Rocks and Soil...Bill?
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