Days 86-90

Exam Review!

Exam Date/Time: Monday, January 30th, 8:45 am, Rooms 302/303

Days 82 to 86

This week you will be working on your Performance Task. Please be sure to come to the classroom each day to collect your green folder and listen to instructions before heading down to the library computer lab.

Here is a list of websites (also in your green folder) to help with your research:


Web Sites on Ecological Footprints:

Water Conservation Tips – Environment Canada
http://www.on.ec.gc.ca/reseau/watertips_e.html

Conservation Halton – Can I Change Climate Change – Ecological Footprint
http://www.halton.ca/cms/One.aspx?portalId=8310&pageId=13688

Environment Canada Site – Reducing Your Footprint
Eco Voyageurs – Ecological Footprint
http://www.ecovoyageurs.ca/en/page.cgi?stage=footprint/footprint

National Geographic – Human Footprint
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/human-footprint/consumption-interactive.html

Wikipedia – Ecological Footprint
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_footprint

Global Network – Footprint
http://www.footprintnetwork.org/en/index.php/GFN/page/calculators/

Ecological Footprint Quiz – Center for Sustainable Development
http://www.myfootprint.org/

Day Eighty One

Your Performance Task was given out today and you started work on the pre-planning questions.

Some of you asked about the Lorax and Easter Island. See the links below!

Lorax: Part One
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5jnJdnQPr8

Lorax: Part Two
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzYRkGIQpOs

Easter Island:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hO-vCPuuQQ
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_Island

Performance Task Schedule

Grade 9 Geography – Performance Task
(15% of Final Grade)

Schedule

Introduction and Pre-Planning – Friday, January 13th

Library Lab Time
Computer access for research, word processing, collecting of images, creating final project, etc.

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday
January 16th to January 20th

Due Date: Friday, January 20th, before 3:20pm
(No excuses, No extensions)

Day Eighty

1) We discussed the upcoming Geography Performance. I showed you some fabulous examples done in past years to inspire you and get your creative juices flowing! See above posting for schedule.

2) Global Warming - Impacts from a Canadian Perspective.
Please use the link below to find the handout.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MVv8maKukWz5dDnG3oM4_AxoiMMRlh8Onp7eW-gYv5Q/edit

Day Seventy-Nine

Today you handed in your Global Warming handouts for evaluation.
With a partner, you practised explaining the greenhouse effect, and how it is connected to the idea of 'global warming'.

We continued viewing (and discussing) 'An Inconvenient Truth'. While watching, you had to fill out the following on your sheet (in separate columns):

1) Evidence of Global Warming
2) The Effects of Global Warming
3) What people can do to prevent it.

Day Seventy-Eight

Your homework for tonight:

1) Complete BOTH SIDES of the Global Warming handout. The answers are in the textbook (I've provided you with the pages).

2) Come to class tomorrow prepared to verbally explain the greenhouse effect.

Day Seventy-Seven

Welcome back everyone! I hope you all had a restful, relaxing break.

Today we reviewed what the last 13 days of class will look like. You are scheduled to do your Performance Task next week!

We watched part of the 11th hour. Click the link below to see the handout.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fk7BY7739omv-_bgufR_a2A611zrjt2C0pnzETBqBz4/edit

If you'd like to see the rest of the film, or review your questions, here is the link to the film via YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RAgkXFlX8U