Week of September 10

Academic Geography

• Dive into Canadian Geography - use the technology and resources available to you in the classroom to determine the answers to these questions. Partner up!
• Structure of the Earth and Plate Tectonics. Discover the basic layers of the Earth and the Theory of Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics with Alfred Wegener and J Tuzo Wilson.
• The Rock Cycle! How does MAGMA become Igneous rock, and what processes take Sedimentary rock to the point of being Metamorphic? Create a good copy of the diagram from the notes. For added interest, complete the Animated Rock Cycle activity online. Listen to the Rock Cycle Song and sing along!
• Evolution of Canada's Landforms. How did Canada get to look the way it does today? Can you use critical thinking to identify where the pictures in today's lesson were taken in Canada?

Applied Geography

• Protecting Our Environment. How do we, as Canadians, live in harmony with our world? Complete the worksheet and reading in the text.
• Trash Trouble! We are a consumer society....we buy, throw away, and buy again. Where does all our stuff go? Watch the Story of Stuff, and then complete the worksheet on Canada's Trash Trouble.
• Water, water everywhere....really? What are Canada's issues with water quality and quantity. Use the textbook to help you answer the questions.
• Air Woes....what is this stuff we're breathing every day? Read all about it in the text and complete the worksheet.