C & D Blocks Environmental and Social Sciences - Double block in the Learning Commons/Library with Young today. Today we'll begin our examination of plastic pollution and the north pacific gyre. We'll have two activities to work through, one called The Physics of Flotsam (from the California Current Ecosystem at Scripps Institution of Oceanography) and the other called Marine Debris (from Esri). Here is the map from ESRI that you need to use for the activity. These will be given to you as handouts and you may work collaboratively on them this morning. These, along with your handout work on gyres from last week, need to be submitted to me today. We will continue our look at this issue tomorrow in class with an understanding of what the "Tragedy of the Commons" is, but also we'll try to critically examine what this concept means. Please take some time to look through the videos below to help.
To help:
SloActive Plastic Pollution
NOAA A guide to plastics in the ocean
A Block Physical Geography - Today you have the block to finish your work on the Medicine Hat Topographic map. You need your Canadian Landscape topographic map book and the Medicine Hat map can be found on pages 40-42. You will need to work on questions 1 a, b and d, 2 a &b, 3 a-e, 4, 7 a-d and 8. This work is due Thursday (remember...deadline, right?) and you should really get it finished by the end of class today. You can find topographic maps of Medicine Hat on Google Maps (Type in Medicine Hat Alberta on a Google search and click on maps at the top and then choose "Terrain" as an option). For other maps and information on Medicine Hat that will help you with some of the topographic map assignment questions check out Tourism Medicine Hat From Tourism Medicine Hat...
Pinto McBean – the World’s Largest and Most Armed Pinto Bean – Bow Island’s answer to the World’s Largest Catsup Bottle (in Illinois, for you long-haul road-trippers).
Pinto McBean celebrates the town’s role in Southern Alberta’s agriculture industry, which is a leader in beans and lentils. The fact that agriculture even exists here is a feat of human engineering thanks to an impressive canal system that delivers nearly a billion cubic metres of waters to farmers. Indeed, with the effort put forth to grow crops in this dry, sun-soaked land, the world’s largest pinto bean is an apt, wonderful mascot and a deserving point of pride.
B Block Human Geography - Today and tomorrow we'll look at the key question "Where Are Religions Distributed"? To that end, today I'll have you divided up into six groups (groups of four/five) and each group will be responsible for discovering as much as they can about one of: Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism, Judaism, Islam or Christianity. You'll need to find out how many followers there are, where the followers are distributed, beliefs and teachings (including books and or scriptures), branches (or subdivisions), and Holy locations. I'll give you some chart paper and smelly felts and your group will be responsible for creating and presenting a poster fact sheet for the class (remember think geographically with this activity). You may also use the website adherents.com or the website religionfacts.com or the BBC links above.
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