A bio-rich inland sea and coastal land area of British Columbia and Washington State named for its original habitants, the Coast Salish Peoples, and known for its keystone animals – the Southern Resident Orca and the Grizzly Bear. The Salish Sea Bioregion is a place where the deep Pacific Ocean meets the nutrient laden waters of the great watershed of the Coast Mountains and its largest river, the Fraser, and where rapidly flowing tidal currents create rich ecosystems supporting substantial animal and plant life.Today we'll start with a brainstorming session on what you know about the people, places, and environments of the Salish Sea. Next we'll watch the first 10 minutes of the Living Salish Sea video below:
This is a place of significant heritage and culture where people have interacted with the ocean and watershed for thousands of years and a place now home to 8 million people, including over 70 First Nations. It is a place of competing priorities, intricate ecosystems and compelling stories at the crossroads of ancient pathways and new directions.
This Living Salish Sea from Oceanus on Vimeo.
After this you'll be in the Learning Commons / library today to continue researching the following topics to research for your Salish Sea poster project:
After this you'll be in the Learning Commons / library today to continue researching the following topics to research for your Salish Sea poster project:
- Commercial Shipping
- Expansion (twinning) of the Trans Mountain Pipeline
- Aquaculture (both shellfish and finfish)
- Indigenous Territories, land claims and businesses
- Species at Risk (and legislation to protect them)
- Eco - Tourism (including whale watching, sea kayaking, and boating)
- Waste Management (Urban and Industrial)
- Fisheries (fin fish commercial, sport, and Indigenous)
- Population growth
By the year 2025, we can expect the population in the Salish Sea ecosystem to expand to over nine million people. Sustainability of the Salish Sea ecosystem is critical to our continued use and enjoyment of this place. Your poster is going to be a small "snapshot" on the Health of the Salish Sea to help show progress in sustainably managing the Salish Sea ecosystem and its valuable resources, where conditions are declining, and where course corrections are needed. So for each topic you choose, find out:
- What's happening?
- Why is it important?
- Why is it happening?
- What are we doing about it?
In essence...what are the problems and what are the potential solutions.
Endangered Southern Resident Orcas are a genetically distinct population that lives off the Pacific Northwest coast. Habitat critical to their survival is found in the Salish Sea and includes the southern part of Georgia Strait, parts of the Strait of Juan de Fuca and Puget Sound. The population is made up of three pods known as the J, K and L pods. Each pod consists of multiple related matrilines and is led by one or more matriarchs.
As of April 2023, only 73 Southern Resident orcas remain.
J-pod: 25 whales
K-Pod: 16 whales
L-Pod: 32 whales
We have the learning commons booked today, tomorrow and Wednesday for this and will have poster paper and a colour map of the Salish Sea for you to focus your information around. You already have a rough copy with information on it to start off with.
Websites to help (look through the blog posts for the last week as well):
B Block Human Geography - Today, we'll look at the key question "Why Do Territorial Conflicts Arise Among Religious Groups"? Jerusalem - Religious Significance for three Abrahamic Religions (Judaism, Islam, and Christianity). It probably comes as no surprise that various conflicts have occurred between religions and governments and between governments or ethnicity using religion as an excuse. So, we'll watch the Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown episode on Jerusalem
Bourdain's words...
“One can be forgiven for thinking, when you see how similar they are, that two peoples, both of whom cook with pride, eat with passion, love their kids, love the land in which they live or the land they dream of returning to, who live so close, who are locked in such an intimate, if deadly, embrace, might somehow, someday, figure out how to live with each other? But that would be very mushy thinking. Those things, in the end, probably don’t count for much at all.”
Tomorrow we'll try to understand religious conflict with three other examples:
- Hinduism, the Caste System and social equality (tradition vs modernism);
- The "Troubles" in Northern Ireland (sectarian violence Catholic vs Protestant); and
- China, Tibet and the Dalai Lama (religion, culture, language, environment, oppression and control)
A Block Legal Studies - Today we'll look at "excusable conduct" defenses of Self-defense, Necessity, Duress, Ignorance of the law, Mistake of fact, Entrapment, Double jeopardy, and Provocation.
I'll have you Think - Pair - Share the following cases:
- R. v. Paice, 2005 p. 277 (self defence)
- R. v. Ungar, 2002 p. 279 (necessity)
- R. v. Keller, 1998 p. 280 (duress)
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