B Block Human Geography - Today we'll look at the Key Issue "Where Is Agriculture Distributed"? Geographer Derwent Whittlesey mapped the world’s agricultural regions in 1936 which helped lay the foundation for the modern division of the Earth into agriculture regions. The five agriculture regions primarily seen in developing countries are intensive subsistence, wet-rice dominant; intensive subsistence, crops other than rice dominant; pastoral nomadism; shifting cultivation; and plantation and we'll look at those today. You'll need to answer the following:- What is pastoral nomadism and in what type of climate is it usually found?
- How do pastoral nomads obtain grain (several ways)?
- What is transhumance?
- In what way do modern governments currently threaten pastoral nomadism?
- How is land owned in a typical village that practices shifting cultivation?
- What percentage of the world’s land area is devoted to shifting cultivation?
- Describe the PROS and CONS of shifting cultivation, or the arguments made for it and criticisms leveled against it on the chart in the work package.
- Define and describe plantation farming by filling out the chart in the work package.
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 library/learning commons. Check the blog 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 there is very little class time, realistically today is the best day for your video recording.C/D Blocks Environmental and Social Sciences - In C block with Benton (in 145) you'll finish your look at Jumbo that you started yesterday. Next you'll look at the differences between a linear and circular economy. We'll take 20 minutes to watch the Story of Stuff and other videos on a circular economy
In D block with Young (in 115) we'll continue talking about the possible syncretism of western and indigenous worldviews. First, we'll look at Ancient Wisdom for a Modern World...
We'll also watch On Our Lands. The second-place winner in the 2017 Yale Environment 360 Video Contest examines how indigenous groups in the Bolivian Amazon are sustainably managing their territories in a way that preserves forests and provides livelihoods to the region’s families. The video is on the link here Taking Charge: Indigenous Bolivians Sustainably Manage Their Homeland
Given the bushfires in Australia it may be a good idea to look at Australia’s Indigenous people say there’s a 60,000-year-old way to help stop bushfires
I'll have the big sheet of paper out from yesterday 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
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