Today's schedule is DCBA
D & C Blocks Environmental and Social Sciences - Today in D Block with Young we'll finish the seven types of plastic notes that we started yesterday. Then, we'll watch the video I posted called "plastics in paradise". After, we'll get back to brainstorming possible solutions to our plastic pollution problem for the following: Recycling; Incineration; Biodegradable plastics; and Pyrolysis (plastic to diesel).
“In order to reduce our plastic use, always consider an alternative to a plastic item offered. You can do this with The 4-Rs to Rethinking Plastic:
Refuse: single use plastics end up in our oceans, so ask for alternatives that can be used again.
Reduce: Is it possible to reduce your plastic footprint by eliminating the amount of plastic products used?
Re-use: if you can’t use an alternative to plastic, make sure you re-use it where possible and dispose of responsibly.
Recycle: If you must purchase plastic, opt for items that are recyclable to reduce additional material ending up in landfills. From a sustainability perspective, recycling remains one of our key solutions. Recycling reduces our requirement on virgin plastics (thereby reducing our consumption of oil, as plastic is made from oil) and also prevents used plastic from ending up in the environment.
Tomorrow, your task will be to design, create, and execute a social media campaign to help further your knowledge, raise awareness, and create possible solutions to our plastic pollution problem.
In C Block with Benton you'll wrap up you field studies and discuss the Herring Fishery in the Salish Sea from ecological and economical perspectives
B Block Human Geography - We'll start with yesterday's work on universalizing and folk religions. Next we'll have the remainder of the block to work on our religion posters.
A Block Physical Geography - Today we're looking at glaciers and we'll make sense of how they erode the
landscape and examine the land forms they create. We'll understand the
differences amongst the various alpine and continental glaciers and we'll
define: cirque, arete, pyramidical peak, hanging valley, truncated spur, esker,
drumlin, kettle lake, and fjord; along with questions 3, 8, and 12 from page 587
in your Geosystems text.
For glacier websites check out:
Geoscape Nanaimo ice age legacy
USGS Glaciers
of Canada book
National Snow &
Ice Data Center All About Glaciers
Tongass
National Forest Icefields & Glacier facts
USGS
Glacier terminology
Eastern Illinois
University Department of Geography glacier notes
Encyclopedia of the
Earth: Glaciers
Rocky Mountain
National Park glacier basics
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