D/C Blocks Social and Environmental Sciences - With Young We'll continue our look at wind driven ocean circulation, geostrophic flow, and gyres. A gyre is a large swirling body of water that is often on the scale of a whole ocean basin or 1000’s of kilometers across (hundreds to thousands of miles across). Ocean gyres dominate the open ocean and represent the long-term average pattern of ocean surface currents.
Our activity today will be "A Study of the Central North Pacific Gyre". This activity was given to you yesterday .
With Benton you'll look at Clam Gardens and Coral Reefs. From the Clam Garden Network
Clam gardens are ancient intertidal features constructed by coastal First Nations of British Columbia (Canada) and Native Americans of Washington State and Alaska (USA), to enhance shellfish productivity and to feed the people. They are one of many techniques and practices enacted by Indigenous Peoples to maintain or increase the production of culturally important foods, including clams. These practices are encompassed within age-old social, economic, and spiritual beliefs and practices of coastal First Peoples.
Coral Reefs...FYI
A billion people rely on coral reefs for food and income
They support a quarter of all ocean life
They contribute $375 billion per year to the global economy
They are a vital source of new medicines
They protect our coastlines
In the last 30 years, 50% of the world’s corals have died and the situation is only getting worse. To save them we need rapid, global action.
Brainstorm all the ways individuals are contributing, directly or indirectly, to coral bleaching.
Why is it so urgent to help coral reefs adapt and survive?
Some websites to start you with
B Block Human Geography - After you finish and display your posters for a gallery walk in the class today, we'll go through the key question "Where Are Religions Distributed?". In addition to the religions for your presentations we'll look at Confucianism, Taoism, Bahá’í, Shintoism, Zoroastrianism, Cao Dai and Jainism.
This is a really good World Religions Map. To end you'll have the following questions to work on:
- How are the differences between universalizing and ethnic religions similar to the differences between folk and popular culture? List several similarities.
- Refer to the small pie charts in Figure 6-3 (it's the one above). Which regions have enough adherents of each of the three universalizing religions that all three appear on the pie charts?
- What are some similarities and differences between Buddhism and Chinese ethnic religions?
To help with question # 3 above...
Measuring Religion in China (scroll down to Cultural traditions with spiritual underpinnings)
Here is a digital copy of the chapter on Religion from the text.
A Block Legal Studies - We are back in the Learning Commons / Library to work on our criminal law memo activity. It is due next Monday, right? This means you have today and tomorrow to get work finished and you should be on your second case now. Please look at the blog posts for weblinks and assistance on the memo format along with resources for your discussion section. Next week you'll have some work to complete on criminal law defences and sentencing along with a collaborative test.
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