Geography
Welcome to MCI Geography
Grade 9 Geography Trip to the Ontario Science Centre:
Each year, all grade 9 MCI Geography students attend a field trip to the Ontario Science Centre. Students build on their classroom knowledge about climate change and sustainability through examining various exhibits including Portraits of Resilience (teens discussing the impacts of climate change where they live) and Trashing Our Oceans (battling plastic pollution in various areas in our oceans). Students also watch an IMAX film, The Great Bear Rainforest, to introduce concepts related to Indigenous Knowledge and sustainable practices.
Student Work
Martingrove’s Geography Department focuses on encouraging students to engage in critical thinking, inquiry, and discussions about a brighter, sustainable, and more equitable future through different environmental, political, economic, and social lenses. We continue to expand our learning about Indigenous Ways of Knowing and centre Indigenous voices in our courses to recognize the historical and current inequities Indigenous Peoples have endured and celebrate their successes and contributions in Canada.
Our Geography students work towards:
developing an understanding of the characteristics and spatial diversity of natural and human environments and communities, on a local to a global scale;
analysing the connections within and between natural and human environments and communities;
developing spatial skills through the use of spatial technologies and the interpretation, analysis, and construction of various types of maps, globes, and graphs;
being responsible stewards of the earth by developing an appreciation and respect for both natural and human environments and communities.