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CGC 1P: CANADIAN GEOGRAPHY

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Monday Feb 1
1. Class Rules and Norms overview. Click here to see the video.
2. Course overview - click here to see the outline.
3. Seating Plan - intro to mapping. We will chart out the ethnic backgrounds of the class members. 
4. Materials you MUST have for this class:
  • pencil with eraser
  • paper 
  • binder 
  • 5 different colour pencil crayons
  • different colour pens (ie black, blue, red)
5. Sign up for email/text reminders: follow these instructions.
6. We will be using technology a lot in this class - you are encouraged to bring a tablet or laptop every day. We will also be using smartphones. 
  • suggestion: download the app "Socrative Student" onto your device
 
Tuesday Feb 2
1. Finish up mapping/graphing assignment. See the lesson here.
  • Receive your GEO JOURNAL - this is where you will keep track of your daily understandings, questions and reflections. 
    • GeoJournal Entry #1: Reflection on Class Ethnic Map
2. Hand out Geography Key Terms - you will use this throughout each chapter and unit to keep track of important vocabulary and concepts. This stays in your binder.
 
4. Begin "Intro to Geography Lesson"
 
Wednesday Feb 3-Thursday Feb 4 - see our sample Geography Glossary here.
1. Continue "Intro to Geography" - focus on geographic thinking. See the lesson by clicking here.
GeoJournal Entry #2: What kind of geographer are YOU?
2. "What is an issue?" handout - practice using sample scenarios
 
Friday Feb 5 - SHORTENED SCHEDULE
1. Finish Geography Issue Analysis.
 
Monday Feb 8
Activity #1: What is a geographic issue?
  • complete your own issue organizer (see the handout by clicking here) on the Golf Course debate
    • Resources:
      • Golf Course Tree article
GeoJournal Entry #3: Summarize your understanding of what a geographic issue is.
Tuesday Feb 9
1. Discuss issue analysis of golf course cutting trees. See the answer key here.
2. Digital quiz - assessment.
 
Wednesday Feb 10-Feb 11
GeoJournal Entry #3: add to your understanding of what a geographic issue is based on this new learning.
1. Intro to MAPS 
  • Geolab: what is the difference between a drawing/picture and a map?
 
Tuesday Feb 16
1. In class work  - textbook reading on maps with questions. Click here to view.
Wednesday Feb 17
1. Intro to MAPS continued
  • 3 types of maps
 
Thursday Feb 18-Fri Feb 19
1. INTRODUCTION TO GOOGLE APPS FOR EDUCATION.
 
Monday Feb 22
GeoJournal Entry #4 today: Summarize your main learning about maps. Provide THREE main new things your have learned.
2. Intro to MAPS continued
  • 3 types of maps - add each to your geography key terms (glossary)
Hand out first mapping activity - political map of Canada. 
 
Tuesday Feb 23 - 25
1. Kahoot review of maps.
2. Work on completing all mapping assignments - classroom map and political map of Canada.
 
Friday Feb 26
1. Introduction to latitude and longitude - add to key terms. 
library session for my blueprint
 
Monday Feb 29
1. Latitude and Longitude continued. 
2. In-class activity.
3. Play this game and this game for review.
Geojournal Entry #5: What did you learn today about latitude and longitude?
4. Remember to complete Geography Key Terms for Unit One.
 
Tuesday Mar 1
  • Kahoot competition
  • Group Task: Latitude and Longitude in Canada
  • Partner Assessment on Google Docs
Wednesday Mar 2
1. Continue partner assignment on longitude and latitude. 
2. Complete key terms for Unit One. 
 
Thursday Mar 3 - Friday Mar 4
Wrap up Unit One and Unit Two begins - Canada's Physical Geography. 
1. Big question: Where in this big country do people live - and not live?
  • compare the 'Two Canadas'
  • population distribution and density
  • isodemographic map of the world
GEOJOURNAL #6: Where in this big country do people live - and not live? Respond to this question with learning from this lesson.
 
Monday Mar 7-Tuesday Mar 8
1. Socrative review on population distribution, density and isodemographic maps. 
2. Complete key terms for Unit 2 from first lesson. 
3. OSSLT practice - multiple choice questions based on an image.
4. Unit 2 Lesson 2: Canada's Physical Environment: Population
  • key terms: census metropolitan area
  • complete questions 1 a to d, f on page 25
  • handout: Rural Settlement Patterns using page 28
 
Wednesday Mar 9 - Mar 11
BIG QUESTION HANDOUT: How do different landforms and geology (the rocks that make up the earth)  contribute to where and how people live?
Begin documentary on How the Earth was Made!
 
 
Mon Mar 21 - Tues Mar 22
Finish documentary - 10 000 years of humans on earth.
  • Vancouver Case Study - OSSLT practice. Click here for the worksheet and here for the tips.
  • Introduction to Plate Tectonics - Forces that Shape Earth. See lesson here.
  • Complete map of world's plates.
 
Wed Mar 23
1. Complete worksheet on Canada and earthquakes. You may need to use your phone to find information needed. 
2. Use this overview of earthquakes in BC to help you.
Hand in at the end of the period.
3. Also take 10 minutes to add your inquiry organizer any new ideas you have to answer the main inquiry question: How do different landforms and geology contribute to where and how people live?
 
Thursday Mar 24
1. Plate tectonics - tsunamis and earthquakes. 
2. Take 10 minutes at end of class to add any key terms you understand well to your Unit 2 key terms.
 
Tuesday Mar 29
1. Continue plate tectonics - assessment: match major plate movements to proper image. 
2. At the end of the lesson, add to your inquiry tracker about what you have learned about how plate tectonics have shaped landforms in Canada and how that has affected how people live.
 
Wednesday Mar 30
1. Wrap up plate tectonics. Review images shown at beginning of lesson and match to type of plate movement. 
2. Add key terms you understand the best to your key terms glossary.
3. Begin rock cycle. What are the characteristics of different types of rocks and how do they affect where and how we live?
  • Complete rock cycle diagram using pages 40-42.
 
Thursday Mar 31
OSSLT
 
Friday April 1
1. Rock Cycle - organizer on types of rocks and their uses, locations.
  • add to unit inquiry tracker - how do rocks affect how/where Canadians live? 
  • assessment: fill in the blanks.
2. Add to key terms glossary.
 
Monday April 4
1. Rock Cycle continued: focus on Grand Canyon to prepare for virtual field trip tomorrow.
2. Go to Google Classroom to open and complete the worksheet. Use this slideshow to complete the work.
 
Tuesday April 5
1. Grand Canyon virtual field trip!!!
Assessment - Geo journal entry #7/8: reflection on Grand Canyon learning. 
 
Wednesday April 6
1. Wrap up rocks  - rock lab.
Thursday April 7
1. Complete 3 more key terms
2. Make sure geojournal entry #9 is complete: What is the connection between plate tectonics and the rock cycle? 
2. Reading and questions on glaciation
 
Friday April 8
1. Review rock lab responses. 
If you are done your two geojournal entries from this week AND the work from yesterday, you can watch SAN ANDREAS!
 
Monday April 11
1. Review responses to Grand Canyon rock assessment. 
2. Review rock lab assessment. 
3. Take up glaciation worksheet.
4. Glaciation lesson. 
 
Tuesday April 12
**BINDER CHECK
1. Glaciation lesson - what is a glacier, what are the effects of glaciation on Canada?
2. Add to unit 2 inquiry tracker - How do different landforms and geological process affect how and where Canadians live?
3. Tomorrow: quiz on rock cycle and glaciation.
 
Wednesday April 13
1. Finish glaciation - review
2. Quiz on rock cycle and glaciation
 
 
Thursday April 14
1. Summary of all unit 2 learning on map of Canada.
2. Canada's landforms - video showing all different landforms in Canada. 
3. Visual representation of formation of Canada's landscape
4. Kahoot
 
Monday April 18
1. Complete in class work on Canada's landforms.
Tuesday April 19-Wednesday April 20
1. Complete visual showing formation of Canada's landforms. 
2. Independent work - Canada's landforms assignment. Click here to see the slideshow lesson.
3. Add to unit 2 inquiry tracker using your knowledge about landforms.
 
Thursday April 21-Fri Apr 22
1. Canada's climate - what is the difference between weather and climate?
2. Worksheet - factors influencing climate.
3. Add to your unit 2 tracker.
 
Monday April 25
1. Finish postcards activity.
2. Climate vs Weather lesson. 
3. Finish Unit 2 inquiry tracker.
 
Tuesday April 26
**END OF UNIT 2
1. Climate vs Weather lesson completed.
2. Wrap up unit 2 - START UNIT 2 CULMINATING ACTIVITY.
3. Hand in Unit 2 key terms tomorrow. 
 
Wednesday April 27-Thursday April 28
1. Work on Unit 2 culminating activity. 
 
Friday April 29
If you are finished your key terms, postcards, and unit 2 culminating, you can watch the rest of San Andreas.
 
 
Monday May 2
Work period on Unit 2 culminating.
 
Tuesday May 3
Work period on Unit 2 culminating. Move ahead to Unit 3 if complete early.
 
Wednesday May 4
1. Postcards, Unit 2 key terms and Unit 2 culminating should be complete by today.
2. START UNIT 3: Lesson 1: What are Natural Resources and How Should We Manage Them?
 
Thursday May 5
1. Natural Resources: Writing a Report lesson (OSSLT practice)
 
Friday May 6
1. Wrap up WRITING A REPORT
2. Make sure ALL unit 2 work has been submitted - key terms, post cards, unit 2 culminating slide show. 
Monday May 9
Unit 3 lesson 1 continued - what is a natural resources and how should we manage them?
Geojournal Entry #10: Explain your understanding of this lesson by responding to the question above in 4-6 sentences.
 
Tuesday May 10-Wednesday 11
Unit 3 Lesson 2: Resources and Industries
How effectively have Canadians practiced the 3Rs to manage Canada’s resources?
  • What are the 3rs? How can you reduce your garbage?
  • Where does our garbage go?
  • Should we burn our garbage? - investigate this question using research (mini lesson on good research techniques)
  • Complete Both Sides Now chart individually or in pairs
 
Thursday May 12
1. Continue research into Should we Burn Our Garbage?
Geojournal Entry #10: Explain your understanding of this lesson by responding to the question above in 4-6 sentences.
Sources
a. Discovery News video: How do we get energy from trash?
b. Toronto Star article: Landfill or incinerator: What’s the future of Toronto’s trash?
c. Toronto Star article: Toronto should burn trash to make energy
d. AirMatters video: Burning Garbage Stinks
e. PBS video: How the French are burning trash to heat homes
 
Friday May 13
1. Infographic Practice - use easel.ly or piktochart to create a visual that explains your point of view on the question of whether Toronto should burn its garbage. 
Monday May 16 - Tuesday May 17
Unit 3 lesson 3 continued - how should we manage our resources?
1. Take a closer look at reducing and reusing using pages 90-93.
  • Go online to Freecycle Network and find three-four things you can get for free from this site. 
2. Start lesson 3: Top Ten List of how to ReThink Resources - go to padlet.com/vautour/rethink and post your best examples with a picture or video. 
3. Geojournal Entry #11: Which of the class examples can you see yourself doing? Choose 1 or 2 to try and complete for this week. You will write a journal on Friday evaluating yourself in achieving this goal.
4. Students who have not completed the Unit 2 culminating will be working independently to get it done and will need to do this lesson for homework. 
 
Wednesday May 18
1. Continue Lesson 4: How can governments make individuals and companies be environmentally conscious?
2. Analysis of the VW emissions scandal using the geographic issue analysis we used in Unit 1. 
 
Thursday May 19
1. Finish your Chapter Tracker by adding examples of how we can better manage our resources. 
2. Complete all the key terms from this chapter on your Unit 3 glossary.
2. Create your final infographic that answers the question. Must be complete by Friday May 20.
 
Friday May 20
1.Work on infographic. KAhoot competition. 
 
Tuesday May 25
1. Unit 3 Lesson 5: How and why should we use our renewable resources in a sustainable way?
  • general intro to agriculture, forestry and fishing
  • Chapter 5 big question tracker handed out
  • sustainable vs unsustainable renewable resource use
 
Wednesday May 26-Friday May 28
1. Focus on agriculture
2. Practice with popplet
**infographic on natural resources must be submitted by end of week
 
Monday May 30
1. Focus on Forestry - how we can manage forestry in a sustainable way?
 
Tuesday May 31
Guest speaker - Forests Ontario and Sawmill Sid
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Wednesday June 1
GEOJOURNAL ENTRY: What did you learn from the lesson by Forests Ontario and Sawmill Sid? Record the TOP THREE new things you learned!
1. Finish agriculture - what are the causes and consequences of Canada's disappearing farmland?
GEOJOURNAL ENTRY: Why and how should Canada use its agricultural resources in a sustainable way?
2. Practice popplet
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Thursday June 2
OSSLT practice - summary writing
 
Friday June 3 - early dismissal
Review OSSLT practice
1. Focus on fishing - how can we manage our fish in a sustainable way? What happened to Canada's East Coast Cod - investigation
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Monday June 6
OSSLT practice - summary writing on Algonquin Park
Start Fishing as a renewable resourcce
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Tuesday June 7
Fishing as renewable resource - east coast cod investigation
Unit 4 Lesson 1 - Population
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Wednesday June 8
Unit 4 Lesson 2 - Population
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Thursday June 9
Unit 4 Lesson 3 - Population
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Friday June 10
Unit 4 Lesson 4 - Population
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Monday June 13
Summative Task - Unit 1 
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Tuesday June 14
Summative Task - Unit 2
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Wednesday Jun 15
Summative Task - Unit 3
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Thursday Jun 16
Summative Task - Unit 4
Finish any parts of the other summatives that you need to.
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HAVE A GREAT SUMMER!
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