3.1 Alt Course 3

CGC1P

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Accessing our Google Classroom

Posted on September 4, 2018

This semester we will be using our school Academic Workspace accounts to access our Google Classroom. Here you can access course information and assignments and submit your work for evaluation. To get set up follow the steps provided in the following handout:

welcome-to-google-classrooms CGC1P7

Urban Land Use Field Study

Posted on May 16, 2017

On Friday, you will be exploring and comparing 3 neighbourhoods for their liveability features, but what make a city liveable? Let’s take a look at the following videos to get a better understanding.

What is a liveable city?

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Preparing for the Energy Project

Posted on May 5, 2017

FRIDAY TASK

Part 1

SELECT a TOPIC using the videos below (or by doing your own research) to help you learn more about the different options.

Part 2

Once you select your topic:

WRITE TOPIC on research template.
WRITE the specific RESEARCH QUESTIONS related your topic on your research template in preparation for Monday’s Library Research Period (questions found in topic booklet available in class or on google classroom.

Introduction

Check out the following video to see how clean energy is already well underway in Canada. In your culminating assignment, you will be looking at sustainable technologies like the one in this clip and demonstrate how they will be important for Canada’s future:

CHOOSING YOUR TOPIC

To help you in you select your topic of research, check out some of the following videos as a starting point (browse topics and choose ones of interest, rather than watching each one):

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Should we be worried about Earthquakes in Canada?

Posted on April 19, 2017

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Forces Shaping our Earth

Posted on April 16, 2017

What are forces building our earth and shaping the land on which we live and how has the earth’s history played a role in our current natural environment?

And who are the people that helped us to understand this better?

That is the focus of this week’s lessons:

To get us started, check out the following videos that relate to the questions you will be working on in today’s class:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwfNGatxUJI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbtAXW-2nz0

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Natural Resources

Posted on March 22, 2017

Questions guiding our study of natural resources:

How can you change your way of living to reduce your consumption of resources?
What roles do various industries play in your community?
Which of Canada’s natural resources do you think has the most important uses?
1. The BIG Ideas:

Individuals can influence how natural resources are used.
People have different points of view about the value of different industries and their use of resources.
Canada has a wide variety of natural resources, and they are used in many different ways.

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Doing what’s good for people, profit, and planet.

Posted on February 20, 2017

This geography course focuses heavily on the concept of sustainability. Today, we will begin to scratch the surface of what this term means and how it relates to our learning this semester.

First, let’s check out the following video to get our minds considering what sustainability might look like in the future.

Digital copy of presentation: 3 P’s Sustainability Model

Digital copy of handout: ws-intro-to-sustainability

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Zooming in for a look at Scale

Posted on September 15, 2016

Since maps are used to represent the earth, but the earth is huge, scale helps us understand the actual size of what a map is showing us, let’s practice how to use map scale.

First, review the following presentation: activity-1-6-scale-intro

Practice using scale: activity-1-6-scale_student

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Direction: Which way is what?

Posted on September 13, 2016

Navigating place or knowing direction is another key geographic skill, today we introduce and/or review key ideas that you will be using throughout this course related to direction: