Tuesday, January 14. 2020

Today's schedule is CDAB

C/D Blocks Environmental & Social Sciences - So we have the learning commons/library booked for you to continue work on your Inquiry today. Benton and I will spend a bit of time with you discussing tomorrow's presentation from our MP Gord Johns. Next we'll have a quick check in to see where you're at and then it's work, work, work.

A Block Physical Geography - Today, we'll finish Home. The narrator (Glenn Close) says,

"Must we always build walls to break the chain of human solidarity, separate peoples and protect the happiness of some from the misery of others? It's too late to be a pessimist. I know that a single human can knock down every wall. It's too late to be a pessimist. Worldwide, four children out of five attend school. Never has learning been given to so many human beings. Everyone, from richest to poorest, can make a contribution" 

Good Planet Foundation President Yann-Arthus Bertrand (the film maker for Home) says "I think it’s too late to be pessimistic. There’s no way to think optimistically or not – we need actions. Everybody has a mission and everybody can do something. The way you live is very important, in your private life.


After the documentary we'll talk about natural climate forcing and climate feedbacks (we'll look at anthropogenic climate change tomorrow). So stuff on
1. Milankovich Cycles (eccentricity, or orbit; obliquity, or tilt; and precession, or wobble)
2. the Thermohaline circulation system, and
3. Climate Feedbacks (including the PETM - Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum)





B Block Human Geography - Today we will be going to the Library/Learning Commons for another day to work on your Inquiry Project. Today I'll need you to explore the different formats you could use to tell your Geo-Inquiry Story. Answer the questions below to organize your thoughts and prepare to tell your Geo-Inquiry Story:

1. What is your Geo-Inquiry Question?
2. What kinds of data did you collect?
3. What did you learn from this data?
4. How will you represent data in your Geo-Inquiry Story?
5. What is the answer to your Geo-Inquiry Question or your proposed solution?
6. What action would you like to take based on your findings?
7. Who is the best audience for your Geo-Inquiry Story?
8. What kinds of elements will be most important to tell your Geo-Inquiry Story?
9. What is the best tool to use to tell your Geo-Inquiry Story?

Decide on a format for your end product by thinking about your interests and strengths, and what might be the most effective means of communicating the information that you have gathered and analysed. Analyse each format to determine which is the best fit for your Geo-Inquiry Story. Now...what do you need to do? How do you plan to go about doing it? When do you plan on getting it done.  Don't forget this is an active research project and I expect you'll need to go out into the community to interview people so who do you need to talk to and when will you talk with them? So yeah...it's the day where you really need to get going because including today there's only 8 classes remaining in the semester.