D/C Blocks Social and Environmental Sciences - So you'll be in the learning commons / library today to continue researching the following topics to research for your Salish Sea poster project:
- Commercial Shipping
- Expansion (twinning) of the Trans Mountain Pipeline
- Aquaculture (both shellfish and finfish)
- Indigenous Territories, land claims and businesses
- Species at Risk (and legislation to protect them)
- Eco - Tourism (including whale watching, sea kayaking, and boating)
- Waste Management (Urban and Industrial)
- Fisheries (fin fish commercial, sport, and Indigenous)
- Population growth
By the year 2025, we can expect the population in the Salish Sea ecosystem to expand to over nine million people. Sustainability of the Salish Sea ecosystem is critical to our continued use and enjoyment of this place. Your poster is going to be a small "snapshot" on the Health of the Salish Sea to help show progress in sustainably managing the Salish Sea ecosystem and its valuable resources, where conditions are declining, and where course corrections are needed. So for each topic you choose, find out:
- What's happening?
- Why is it important?
- Why is it happening?
- What are we doing about it?
In essence...what are the problems and what are the potential solutions. We have the learning commons booked today, tomorrow and Wednesday for this and will have poster paper and a colour map of the Salish Sea for you to focus your information around. You already have a rough copy with information on it to start off with.
Websites to help (look through the blog posts for the last week as well):
B Block Physical Geography - Today we'll begin looking at Albedo, energy distribution, and the greenhouse effect.
We'll also look at heat and temperature in the atmosphere. What is cold and hot? What makes you feel cold or hot? How does that impact you? How might temperature impact natural operating systems on Earth? What about human constructs…how are they affected by heat and cold and are we altering temperature patterns? Oymyakon, in Russia’s Yakutia region, has earned the reputation as the coldest permanently occupied human settlement in the world.
We'll understand the three temperature scales (Kelvin, Fahrenheit, and Celsius).
We'll also look at heat and temperature in the atmosphere. What is cold and hot? What makes you feel cold or hot? How does that impact you? How might temperature impact natural operating systems on Earth? What about human constructs…how are they affected by heat and cold and are we altering temperature patterns? Oymyakon, in Russia’s Yakutia region, has earned the reputation as the coldest permanently occupied human settlement in the world.
We'll understand the three temperature scales (Kelvin, Fahrenheit, and Celsius).
NASA has a good website (Earth Observatory Global Warming) that tries to explain the concept of climate change and global warming without a biased political viewpoint for or against the subject. Check it out. You could also look at the Hyper Physics website from the department of Physics and Astronomy at Georgia State University. We will pay more attention to global warming and climate change later on in the course (in January). Don't forget that every day we are going to start by looking at the synoptic forecast along with weather maps.
Data Streme
Environment Canada Weather Office Courtenay
Data Streme
Environment Canada Weather Office Courtenay
A Block Criminology - Quiz to start, then we
continue with our unit on media literacy. We will talk about the history
of media and communication formats (I'll give you a handout on the topic and
we'll go over it today). So...
I want you to track your consumption of media for one day. Today we'll estimate how much time of the day you think you consume and interact with media. We'll look at this Kaiser Family Foundation study from 2010 and the Common Sense Media The Common Sense Census: Media Use by Tweens and Teens, 2019 it will give us a good idea about amounts. The Info-graphic to the left from MBAOnline posted at Socialmouth is a good visual of generational differences for media consumption throughout the day. So for you...at the end of each four hour period that you are awake for one day I'd like you to write down what media format you interacted with for that previous hour and guesstimate how much time you interacted with it. I know that you are a generation of multi-taskers (and that you are interacting with this blog right now) so try to be as honest as you can about what you consume/interact with.
Remember the types of Mass Media include: Print
media encompasses mass communication through printed material. It includes
newspapers, magazines, booklets and brochures, house magazines, periodicals or
newsletters, direct mailers, handbills or flyers, billboards, press releases,
and books. Electronic media is the kind of media which requires the user
to utilize an electric connection to access it. It is also known as 'Broadcast
Media'. It includes television, radio, and new-age media like Internet,
computers, telephones, etc. With the advent of Internet, we are now enjoying the
benefits of high technology mass media, which is not only faster than the old
school mass media, but also has a widespread range. Mobile phones, computers,
and Internet are often referred to as the new-age media. Internet has
opened up several new opportunities for mass communication which include e-mail,
websites, podcasts, e-forums, e-books, blogging, Internet TV, and many others
which are booming today. Internet has also started social networking sites which
have redefined mass communication all together. Sites like Facebook, Twitter,
and YouTube have made communication to the masses all the more entertaining,
interesting, and easier.
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