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    LEAD10

    February 5

    Getting to know your Team/Community

    • Assignment 1 (Individual) – Meet the 8s
      • Step 1 – Identify questions
      • Step 2 – Create brief BIO
      • Projected due date: week of February 15
    • Assignment 2 (Collaborative) – Community Needs
      • Identify/define community
      • Issues/needs
      • Action Plan
      • IDS
      • ID/needs Phase 1: week of February 15
      • Action Plan Proposal:  week of March 1
      • Implementation Phase:  TBA

    Leadership Tool Kit

    • Blog Entry:  Essential Tools – brainstorm list
      • Assignment 3 – Infographic due week of February 15

    Leadership Examples/Inspirations

    • Assignment 4 – Infographic due week of March 1
      • motivations – actions – impact

    Leadership Styles

    • Leadership by Direction vs Leadership by Service

    LEAD10 – 1.3

    February 4

    Introduction to the course & adaptations

    • assessments, curricular competencies & time lines
    • Digital Portfolios/blogs
      • Separate page/tab:  Adjustments in Pandemic Times (ongoing to end of quarter)
    • Volunteerism
    • Flex Check-Ins
    • Class procedures/expectations/protocols

    Getting to know your Team/Community

    • Assignment 1 (Individual) – Meet the 8s
      • Step 1 – Identify questions
      • Step 2 – Create brief BIO
      • Projected due date: week of February 15
    • Assignment 2 (Collaborative) – Community Needs
      • Identify/define community
      • Issues/needs
      • Action Plan
      • IDS
      • ID/needs Phase 1: week of February 15
      • Action Plan Proposal:  week of March 1
      • Implementation Phase:  TBA

    Leadership Tool Kit

    • Blog Entry:  Essential Tools – brainstorm list
      • Assignment 3 – Infographic due week of February 15

    Leadership Examples/Inspirations

    • Assignment 4 – Infographic due week of March 1
      • motivations – actions – impact

     

    GEO12 – 2.1

    JANUARY 29

    Final Assessment

    Sustainability & Canada

    Sustainability Issues & Food Security

    *TEXTBOOK RETURNED TODAY

    *Note upcoming due dates:

    • January 29 –  Digital Portfolio entries on 2020 pandemic changes (Understanding the World through a New Lens)
    • January 18 (week of) – Digital Portfolio – Blue Gold KWL
    • January 25 (week of) – Assignment 5 Parts 1 & 2
    • January 25 (week of) – ASSIGNMENT 4
    • January 25 (week of) –  Assignment 6 
    • January 29 – FINAL DIGITAL PORTFOLIOS 
    • ONLINE Marks close February 1
    • February 1,2,3 – Self Assessment
      • Feb 1 or 2 – FLEX
      • Feb 3 – Last Date ONLINE SUBMISSION

    GEO12 – 2.1

    SUSTAINABILITY

    “The Trip Not Take” – Nat GEO:  Portland and the idea of a liveable city

    • Vancouver?
    • Follow up discussion

    World Sustainability Goals

    Sustainability & Canada

    Sustainability Issues & Food Security

    *ALL TEXTBOOKS MUST BE RETURNED JANUARY 29

    *Note upcoming due dates:

    • January 29 –  Digital Portfolio entries on 2020 pandemic changes (Understanding the World through a New Lens)
    • January 18 (week of) – Digital Portfolio – Blue Gold KWL
    • January 25 (week of) – Assignment 5 Parts 1 & 2
    • January 25 (week of) – ASSIGNMENT 4
    • January 25 (week of) –  Assignment 6 
    • January 29 – FINAL DIGITAL PORTFOLIOS 
    • ONLINE Marks close February 1
    • February 1,2,3 – Self Assessment
      • Feb 1 or 2 – FLEX
      • Feb 3 – Last Date ONLINE SUBMISSION

    GEO12 – 2.1

    January 27

    SUSTAINABILITY

    Ecological Footprint – complete as homework for tomorrow’s class

    “The Trip Not Take” – Nat GEO:  Portland and the idea of a liveable city

    • Vancouver?

    World Sustainability Goals

    Sustainability & Canada

    Sustainability Issues & Food Security

    *Note upcoming due dates:

    • January 29 –  Digital Portfolio entries on 2020 pandemic changes (Understanding the World through a New Lens)
    • January 18 (week of) – Digital Portfolio – Blue Gold KWL
    • January 25 (week of) – Assignment 5 Parts 1 & 2
    • January 25 (week of) – ASSIGNMENT 4
    • January 25 (week of) –  Assignment 6 
    • January 29 – FINAL DIGITAL PORTFOLIOS 
    • ONLINE Marks close February 1
    • February 1,2,3 – Self Assessment
      • Feb 1 or 2 – FLEX
      • Feb 3 – Last Date ONLINE SUBMISSION

    GEO12 – 2.1

    January 26

    Troubleshoot/discuss Assignments 4,5,6

    Chapter 10 – HYDROSPHERE & HYDROLOGIC CYCLE

    • Closed “Cascading” System (Fig.10.2 – p.197)
      • matter (water) changes state due to inputs/outputs of energy (the sun)
      • actual water is neither added nor taken from the system
    • Hydrologic Cycle “Storehouses” and “Storage Time”
      • the places in the hydrologic cycle that water spends time in
      • the average time water spends in each of the places
      • Q: Where (in which storehouse) does water spend the least amount of “storage time”?
      • Q: Where (in which storehouse) does water spend the most amount of “storage time”?
    • Storehouse:  The Oceans & Salinity
      • Abyssal Plain
      • Salinity
        • Q:What factors might affect the salinity of a particular sea?
      • Thermocline
        • “barrier” creates two distinct zones of temperature + salinity
      •  Ocean Currents
        • Video “How Do Ocean Currents Work?”
    • Freshwater Storehouses
      • Glaciers & Ice Sheets
        • Earth has 2 Major Ice Sheets
          • Q: Name the two major ice sheets and their location
        • Warming Seas & Melting Ice Sheets – NASA Global Climate Change (see MOODLE)
      • Groundwater
        • water table:  level beneath surface of the earth where the ground is saturated with water
          • levels vary depending on climate, physical characteristics of the land
            • artesian wells vs non-artesian wells/springs
        • aquifers
        • permeable vs. impermeable rock
          • Q: explain how permeable and impermeable rock play a part in groundwater reserves
      • Rivers & Lakes
        • represent less than 1% of Earth’s fresh water
        • the St. Lawrence & the Mackenzie represent two of Canada’s greatest rivers that discharge into the oceans
        • importance of the Great Lakes
        • Q: What river on Earth is the greatest discharger of water into the oceans?
        • Q: Which lake on Earth holds the greatest amount of water?
        • Q: What is the Earth’s deepest lake?
        • Q: What is the largest lake on Earth in terms of surface area?
      • Atmosphere
        • Evaporation
          • rate is affected by variables that include wind, surface characteristics, air turbulence, and air temperature
        • Absolute Humidity (volume) vs Relative Humidity (ratio)
        • Dew Point (Condensation Point)
          • the temperature at which air is saturated (cannot hold any more water)
        • Condensation
          • dew, fog
          • Q: Explain the process of glasses fogging up immediately when a person goes inside from the cold.
          • hygroscopic particles attract water vapour
        • Precipitation
          • rain, snow, sleet, hail

    SUSTAINABILITY

    Ecological Footprint – complete as homework for tomorrow’s class

    “The Trip Not Take” – Nat GEO:  Portland and the idea of a liveable city

    *Note upcoming due dates:

    • January 29 –  Digital Portfolio entries on 2020 pandemic changes (Understanding the World through a New Lens)
    • January 18 (week of) – Digital Portfolio – Blue Gold KWL
    • January 25 (week of) – Assignment 5 Parts 1 & 2
    • January 25 (week of) – ASSIGNMENT 4
    • January 25 (week of) –  Assignment 6 
    • January 29 – FINAL DIGITAL PORTFOLIOS 
    • ONLINE Marks close February 1
    • February 1,2,3 – Self Assessment
      • Feb 1 or 2 – FLEX
      • Feb 3 – Last Date ONLINE SUBMISSION

    GEO12 – 2.1

    January 25

    Troubleshoot/discuss Assignments 4,5,6

    Chapter 10 – HYDROSPHERE & HYDROLOGIC CYCLE

    • Closed “Cascading” System (Fig.10.2 – p.197)
      • matter (water) changes state due to inputs/outputs of energy (the sun)
      • actual water is neither added nor taken from the system
    • Hydrologic Cycle “Storehouses” and “Storage Time”
      • the places in the hydrologic cycle that water spends time in
      • the average time water spends in each of the places
      • Q: Where (in which storehouse) does water spend the least amount of “storage time”?
      • Q: Where (in which storehouse) does water spend the most amount of “storage time”?
    • Storehouse:  The Oceans & Salinity
      • Abyssal Plain
      • Salinity
        • Q:What factors might affect the salinity of a particular sea?
      • Thermocline
        • “barrier” creates two distinct zones of temperature + salinity
      •  Ocean Currents
        • Video “How Do Ocean Currents Work?”
    • Freshwater Storehouses
      • Glaciers & Ice Sheets
        • Earth has 2 Major Ice Sheets
          • Q: Name the two major ice sheets and their location
        • Warming Seas & Melting Ice Sheets – NASA Global Climate Change (see MOODLE)
      • Groundwater
        • water table:  level beneath surface of the earth where the ground is saturated with water
          • levels vary depending on climate, physical characteristics of the land
            • artesian wells vs non-artesian wells/springs
        • aquifers
        • permeable vs. impermeable rock
          • Q: explain how permeable and impermeable rock play a part in groundwater reserves
      • Rivers & Lakes
        • represent less than 1% of Earth’s fresh water
        • the St. Lawrence & the Mackenzie represent two of Canada’s greatest rivers that discharge into the oceans
        • importance of the Great Lakes
        • Q: What river on Earth is the greatest discharger of water into the oceans?
        • Q: Which lake on Earth holds the greatest amount of water?
        • Q: What is the Earth’s deepest lake?
        • Q: What is the largest lake on Earth in terms of surface area?
      • Atmosphere
        • Evaporation
          • rate is affected by variables that include wind, surface characteristics, air turbulence, and air temperature
        • Absolute Humidity (volume) vs Relative Humidity (ratio)
        • Dew Point (Condensation Point)
          • the temperature at which air is saturated (cannot hold any more water)
        • Condensation
          • dew, fog
          • Q: Explain the process of glasses fogging up immediately when a person goes inside from the cold.
          • hygroscopic particles attract water vapour
        • Precipitation
          • rain, snow, sleet, hail

    SUSTAINABILITY

    Ecological Footprint – complete as homework for tomorrow’s class

     

    *Note upcoming due dates:

    • January 29 –  Digital Portfolio entries on 2020 pandemic changes (Understanding the World through a New Lens)
    • January 18 (week of) – Digital Portfolio – Blue Gold KWL
    • January 25 (week of) – Assignment 5 Parts 1 & 2
    • January 25 (week of) – ASSIGNMENT 4
    • January 25 (week of) –  Assignment 6 
    • January 29 – FINAL DIGITAL PORTFOLIOS 
    • ONLINE Marks close February 1
    • February 1 – Self Assessment

    GEO12 – 2.1

    January 15

    Complete viewing of video “Blue Gold”

    • Discuss/Critique/Review
    • For Digital Portfolio: (due Monday, Jan 25)
      • K – most interesting
      • W – most provocative
      • L – most revealing
    • Where do we go from here?

    Ecological Footprint

    Assignment 6: Energy Resources Project (start research in upcoming remote week)

    • Choose 3 alternatives to fossil fuels
      • choices can include biofuels, solar energy, wind, tidal, geothermal, nuclear
    • Choose your digital format:  slideshow (eg. powerpoint), or a series of infographics
    • Information to research and present include:
      • Benefits/positives
      • Challenges/negatives
      • Where in the world this has been used
      • Feasibility for us in Canada/BC?
    • Include works cited
    • Include citation for images
    • Include brief descriptive captions for any visuals
    • Keep text to point form unless directly quoting

    *Note upcoming due dates:

    • January 29 –  Digital Portfolio entries on 2020 pandemic changes (Understanding the World through a New Lens)
    • January 18 (week of) – Digital Portfolio – Blue Gold KWL
    • January 25 (week of) – Assignment 5 Parts 1 & 2
    • January 25 (week of) – ASSIGNMENT 4
    • January 25 (week of) –  Assignment 6 
    • January 29 – FINAL DIGITAL PORTFOLIOS 
    • ONLINE Marks close February 1
    • February 1 – Self Assessment

    GEO12-2.1

    January 14 & 15

    • “Blue Gold” Video – Water as a Resource
      • KWL Chart

    After Remote Week (Jan 18-22):

    • Chapter 10 – Hydrologic Cycle & the Hydrosphere
      • Energy & the Hydrologic Cycle (Fig.10.4)
        • consumed <– water –> released
      • OCEANS
        • Abyssal Plain
        • Salinity
          • Assignment 5 Part 1:  Create an infographic that shows 3 of the highest-salinity bodies of water and 3 of the lowest-salinity bodies of water (due week of Jan.25)
            • cite images
            • include a map to show where these places are on the earth
            • include following info for each body of water:
              • salinity levels
              • location (country)
        • Thermocline
          • Assignment 5 Part 2: Create a poster “Marine life above & below the Thermocline” (due week of Jan.25)
        • Ocean Currents
          • Surface vs Deep
          • Video:  How Ocean Currents Work
      • FRESH WATER
        • Glaciers & Ice Sheets
          • Greenland & Antarctic Ice Sheets
          • Alpine Glaciers
        • Groundwater
          • Water Table
          • Aquifers
        • Rivers & Lakes
      • ATMOSPHERE
        • Humidity
        • Dew Point
        • Fog
        • Condensation
        • Precipation
    • HOMEWORK
      • REVIEW CH.11 for own reading
    • CONTINUE PROGRESS –
      • ASSIGNMENT 5 (Part 1 & 2) due week of Jan.25
      • ASSIGNMENT 4
        • Phase 1 Research/Ideas Generation – week of Jan 15
        • Phase 2 Production – week of Jan 22
        • Phase 3 Presentation/Submission of work – week of Jan 29

    GEO12 – 2.1

    January 12 – Finishing off from last day…
    • Follow up – Age of Stupid – Ten Years Later
    • Video: Atmospheric Circulation
    • Video: What is an Atmospheric River? (Moodle)
    • Chapter 8,9 – Climate & Weather
      • Classifying Climates
        • for what purpose?
        • what are the factors that define the three examples given on pp.134-136?
      • Climatic Controls – how does each affect climate?
        • solar radiation
        • wind systems
        • ocean currents
        • land masses (continents) & bodies of water
        • altitude
        • mountains
        • local influences
        • How do each of the Climatic Controls affect where WE live?  Upload your response to your course digital portfolio before next class.
    • Climatic change – 5 theories
    • What components make up weather?
      • 3 Tools to measure different elements of weather (p.169)
    • What is the Jet Stream?
      • 2 short video clips
    • Hurricanes & Tornadoes
    • El Nino & La Nina (video clips)
    • HOMEWORK for next day –
      • Upload Climatic Controls question/answers to BLOG before next class
      • REVIEW CH.10,11 for next day
    • CONTINUE PROGRESS –
      • ASSIGNMENT 4
        • Phase 1 Research/Ideas Generation – week of Week of Jan 15
        • Phase 2 Production – week of Jan 22
        • Phase 3 Presentation/Submission of work – week of Jan 29