D & C Blocks - Social and Environmental Sciences - All morning long with Young today. To start, in class, we'll quickly begin our look at Environmental Worldviews which are connected to Environmental Value Systems (we'll look at both these topics in more detail next week).
People disagree on how serious different environmental problems are and what we should do about them. These conflicts arise mostly out of differing environmental worldviews - how people think the world works and what they believe their role in the world should be. Part of an environmental worldview is determined by a person’s environmental ethics - what one believes about what is right and what is wrong in our behavior toward the environment (also called an Environmental Value System).
Some environmental worldviews are human centered (anthropocentric), focusing primarily on the needs and wants of people; others are life- or earth centered (biocentric), focusing on individual species, the entire biosphere, or some level in between.
So, you'll get a handout to get some ideas on Environmental worldviews and value systems and after we'll head to the Learning Commons / Library to work on a web quest graphic organizer on the environmental worldviews (political policy platforms) of the six Federal political parties involved in our current election. A political party is a group made up of people who share a similar political ideology and goals about society and government. The shared political ideology and goals are reflective of a Worldview. A Worldview is a collection of attitudes, values, stories and expectations about the world around us, which inform our every thought and action and each political party has a worldview which becomes their political policy platform (what they want to do and how they plan to do it)
You'll get a handout "Canada Federal Election 2021: Political Party Environmental Policies"
Fill out the graphic organizer / chart with information about the Leader, & Local Candidate for each political party (Liberal, Conservative, New Democrat, Green, Bloc Quebecois and People's Party) and then identify their Environmental Priorities, Promises, and Key Messages. Use the following websites to help:
To find out who is running for office in our local ridings check out 338 Courtenay-Alberni and North Island-Powell River
I'll have you complete the Youth Vote Compass and find out what political party your worldview is most closely aligned with. After, you'll need to answer the following:
- Do you agree with where you were placed on the political spectrum? Why/why not?
- Does the political party you were placed with the Youth Vote Compass match your ideas (worldview) on the environment? Why/why not?
- Which political party do you think has the best environmental policy and why is that?
B Block Physical Geography - Today we'll do a brief introduction to topographic maps and I'll show you how to identify location, estimate area, calculate slope, and determine direction on them. We'll look at large versions of the 1:50000 scale topographic maps for the Comox Valley (92F10 and 92F11). For a large copy of the Forbidden Plateau 92F11 map click on the Online - En ligne (PDF or TIFF) at the GEOSCAN Fast-Link site. Using these maps we'll try to make sense of topographic maps in partners.
Here are a few webpages to help:
Natural Resources Canada Toporama
United States Geological Survey Reading Topo Maps
Natural Resources Canada Toporama
United States Geological Survey Reading Topo Maps
How to Read a Topo Map
National Wildfire Coordinating Group Reading Topographic maps pdf
How Stuff Works Reading a Topographic Map
Reading Topographic Maps and Making Calculations
National Wildfire Coordinating Group Reading Topographic maps pdf
How Stuff Works Reading a Topographic Map
Reading Topographic Maps and Making Calculations
A Block Criminology - Thank you very much for the discussion yesterday, with the nature/nurture concept, today we'll look at the difference between deviance and criminal behaviour (acts that are criminal but not deviant and deviant but not criminal). What is deviant behaviour? A simple explanation of deviant behaviour could be any action that violates cultural norms (formal norms like laws - or informal norms like nose picking). This is a difficult concept because what an individual or sub culture in society defines as deviant is contextually situated (meaning what I think is deviant may be different for you; it is subjective - influenced by personal considerations).
To end the class, using the text and your brains you need to come up with a list of things that are deviant but not criminal and a list of things that are criminal but not deviant
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