Thursday, January 9, 2025

Geography 12: Jan 6-8

 January 6th 

Happy New Year and Welcome back!

Today we went over and corrected our quizzes and made some updates to our climate graphs (particularly adding the labels to the axises and then ensuring we answer the following:

Ensure the graphs are fully labelled. 

Decide which climate graph represents a region under:

The Hadley Cell

The Ferrel Cell

The Polar Cell

Make sure you write an explanation as to why you made your choice.  

If you need to access the climate graph data please see this post.

From here we did our weather readings and some notes on:  humidity, relative humidity, dew point as we are moving towards looking at clouds and cloud formation tomorrow.

We watched these two videos to help us understand the difference between dew point and relative humidity.

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

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


Tuesday Jan. 7th

Mr. von Hagel was in for me today.  Here is what went on:

-weather readings

-Review notes from yesterday on dew point, humidity etc…from start of slides you have.

-watch second video on dew point vs relative humidity, briefly discuss

-notes on condensation and cloud creation, watch videos, have students do cloud sheet

-storms, brainstorm what types they can think of, have them complete chart on p. 281 in text


Wednesday Jan. 8th

Today we started with weather readings and recording and then there was a bit more time to finish the chart on page 281. We reviewed the details, talked a bit about tropical storms and where they occur and the difference between the ITCZ (Inter continental convergence zone), the mid latitudes and polar regions and related these to the atmospheric circulation cells.


We watched these two videos to help our understanding:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmWh9jV_1ac

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzWteUpTpu8


In the second half we watched "an inconvenient truth" we got to about 40ish minutes with discussion. This is a 2006 documentary so made before you were born, it is startling how long they have been studying climate change and how little has been done! We are using this as a jumping off point for a little project we are starting next week. We will have a Friday 5 on Friday.


Just a note our final exam is on: Friday Jan. 24th and it will be based on the Geographic Thinking Concepts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmWh9jV_1ac

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmWh9jV_1ac

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmWh9jV_1ac


Socials 10: Jan. 6-8

 Monday Jan. 6th - welcome back!

-Today in Socials we started with talking about what was happening in Canadian politics and how this impacts us right now with Trudeau stepping down and proroguing parliament.  We then continued on with the lead up to WWII and how Fascism and Hitler grabbed such a spot in history.  We watched these two videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOUIp_-vGZI&t=1s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEk6zGYwyhc&t=2s

We had some discussion around these videos and Hitler's rise to power.  From here we reinforced our knowledge with reading pages 270-274 in our text and answering the following:

Define:  fascism, totalitarianism, propaganda, communism (and proletariat), appeasement

Answer queston: What conditions were present that allowed Hitler and Fascism to rise to power. 

Create a tri-venn diagram comparing: communism, fascism and totalitarianism.


Tuesday Jan. 7 - Mr. von Hagel was in for me today. The class started the WWII project. Please see the previous blog post or link to it here. This project is due: Monday January 13th.

Wednesday Jan. 8th

Today we went over our 1920's test and corrected it. From here we worked on a map of Europe in 1942. In the second half I reviewed the expectations of the WWII project and went over Evaluative questions and how these should show up in your project. We then went to the library and worked on our projects. Please note there will be a Friday 5 on Friday, you will have 15 minutes to put some final touches on your project.

Upcoming dates:

-Jan. 13 WWII projects are due

-Jan. 23 final assessment

-Jan. 27th project completion and final day to hand in late work from second term.