This week we finished up gradation. On Monday we reviewed the Friday 5 (see previous post). Then we reviewed coastal landscapes including going over the matching sheet. We also differentiated between coastal erosional features and coastal depositional features. We watched these two videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-ELTz8DEc4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w16HmD_qe_o
We then went over waves and wave action including labeling a diagram and discussing what fetch and undertow are. We finished off with doing a little reading in our textbook on Mass Wasting pp 108-112 in Earth Matters.
On Tuesday we did a review sheet on Aeolian features, Karst Landscapes and Coastal landscapes in preparation for the test (Wednesday). From here we moved onto reviewing Mass Wasting, what it is and how gravity is involved. We did the chart on the back of the wave action sheet and completed the chart on p. 114 Q 5a and discussed this. We finished up going over the Geographic Thinking concepts.
Wednesday we had our test on Gradational concepts (less river systems and glaciation). When done students worked on the article analysis on Mass Wasting (see previous post).
We discussed the Geographical Thinking Concepts, what these are and how they can be framed.
- Geographic Importance
- Evidence and Interpretation
- Patterns and Trends
- Interactions and Associations
- Sense of Place
- Geographic Value Judgements
For our course, we will use a modified version of the Curricular Competencies:
Establish Significance
Use Primary Evidence
Identify Patterns and Change,
Analyze Cause and Consequence
Understand Interactions and Associations
Take Geographic Perspectives
Consider Ethical dimensions
We then practiced applying these to this Ted Talk on the Babushka's of Chernobyl and considered the following questions: (we will finish on Wed, but be ready by watching the Ted talk and considering the questions and thinking concepts)
-take some notes on this video (on the sheet provided) (practice using the 7 Geographical thinking concepts)...note this is a TED talk from 2015
Think about how you would respond to the prompts:
1) What does home mean to you? What is the “personal geography” of your life -- to what and to where and to what time periods do you most connect? “Sense of place”
2) Respond to the Chernobyl video, your thoughts about why the babushkas were so stubborn about staying and what this says about people's connection to place. Incorporate as much of the notes (from the template on the previous page) as you wish.
****Students will have time to finish article analysis on Friday
