C & D Blocks Environmental and Social Sciences - Today you start with Benton in 145. You'll take a look at the case of the Ktunaxa Nation and the Jumbo Glacier Ski Resort. First the vids:
And then the articles:
Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada Grizzly Bear
Ktunaxa (Kootenay)
Jumbo Glacier Ski Resort: Innovative or Irresponsible?
Jumbo-skiers' dream or B.C. taxpayer's sinkhole?
A mountain of bureaucracy for B.C.'s Jumbo ski resort
Keep Jumbo Wild: The Fight to Protect Jumbo Glacier
'Jumbo is going to stay wild'
The Ktunaxa First Nations versus the proposed Jumbo Ski Resort
Next the discussion...
In D block with Young (in 115) we'll continue our look at worldview this time seeing if we can find a syncretism (the combination of different forms of belief or practice) between Indigenous and Western Colonial worldviews. First the vids:
And then the articles:
Native Knowledge: What Ecologists Are Learning from Indigenous People
Western Science Is Finally Catching Up to Traditional Ecological Knowledge
Understanding Our Environment Requires an Indigenous Worldview
First Nations traditional songs an untapped and dwindling source of sustainability knowledge
Meet the scientists embracing traditional Indigenous knowledge
‘Beyond what our instruments can tell us’: merging Indigenous knowledge and Western science at the edge of the world
Next, I'll have a big sheet of paper out for you to make comments on, write your favourite quote, add questions about things, doodle, rant or otherwise for three of the articles:
1. Native Knowledge: What Ecologists Are Learning from Indigenous People
2. Western Science Is Finally Catching Up to Traditional Ecological Knowledge
3. A New Way for Stewardship of Mother Earth: Indigenity
A Block Physical Geography - Today we'll continue our map/poster on severe weather for elementary school students or our weather report for a newscast project in the learning commons/library. Check yesterday's blog entry for sites to help. If you are doing the forecast option, Mr. Ingram is in room 003 and that is where the green screen is. You should have your script and props ready before you go and seeing as though Thursday is the last class time, realistically today is the best day for your scripting and organization to be done. Please remember, for the green screen, don't wear green...B Block Human Geography - Today we'll look at the key question "Why Do People Consume Different Foods"? The modern Canadian farm is mechanized and highly productive, especially compared to subsistence farms found in much of the rest of the world. This difference represents one of the most basic contrasts between the more developed and less developed countries of the world. Consumption of food also varies around the world, both in total amount and source of nutrients. These differences result from a combination of level of development, physical conditions, and cultural preferences. So today we'll try to examine these differences.
You'll need to work on the following:
- Which of the three main cereal grains is most prevalent in your diet and why do you think that is so?
- Compare world distributions of wheat, rice, and maize production. To what extent do differences derive from environmental conditions and to what extent from food preferences and other social customs?
- How many kilocalories are in a Big Mac? You can use Google to find the answer. How does one Big Mac compare to the daily caloric intake of the average African?
- Define undernourishment:
- How much of the world suffers from undernourishment? Where are those places?
Our World in Data World Caloric Consumption
Canadian Geographic Mapping Calorie Consumption by Country
Government of Canada Daily Calorie Requirement Guide
Dons Nutrition Calculator
Peter Menzel Hungry Planet Food Portraits
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