Apr. 9 – Extraction Jigsaw

We completed the natural resource jigsaw today by changing up the groups.  Now, there's one person in each group who is the expert on one of the five resources.  You are to share what you know with your new group and gather information from them about their resources.

At this point, you should have a map that shows where each resource is produced in Canada and 50 important points, 10 for each resource.

Take Action Logs

At this point, you should all be working on logs for your take actions project.  Think back to what you did so far and write it all down.  Here's a example with the details that I am looking for.

Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2:00 pm

• Formed our Take action group.  Members are: Mr. A, Ms. B, Mr. C, Dr. E

Monday, Mar. 3, Period 4

• Library Research.
• Mr. A looked at charity funding from www.random-website.com
• Ms. B called the charity (416-555-2319) to ask if they need volunteers.

Thursday, Mar. 6, Period 4

• Discussed Take Action with the class.
• Mr. C explained to the class what our group is doing.

Wednesday, Apr. 2, 6:00pm

• Dr. E called the charity (416-555-2319) to set up a time to do our project.  
• We agreed on May 5 at 7pm.

Apr. 8 – Extraction Jigsaw

Remember the four levels of industries,

1. Primary: Extraction
2. Secondary: Manufacturing
3. Tertiary: Services
4. Quaternary: Research & Development

For the next section, we will focus on Extraction.

Extraction

Jigsaw activity

We split up into groups and each group researched their category of primary industries.  Each group was to read the relevant chapter of the textbook and decide on their top 10 most important points.  Each group then labelled where the industries are most important on a map of Canada.

Tomorrow, we will complete the rest of the activity by sharing between the groups.

Apr. 7 – The Story of Stuff continued

We finished the handout on the Story of Stuff today.  By now your entire handout pack should be complete!

Test corrections should also have been handed in by now.

Apr. 4 – The Story of Stuff

Today we watched a video called The Story of Stuff.

Handout

• The Story of Stuff

We watched it all the way through once and took what notes you can get, but the pace of this video is really fast, so started going back through it again slowing down and stopping at certain points to make more notes.  We will continue this on Monday.

Apr. 3 – Types of Industries

First of all, we took up the Trade worksheet.  At this point, you should have completed that entire handout.  If you don't have it all, please talk to your group members or see me about it.

Next, we discussed the different types of industries: Primary, Secondary, Tertiary and Quaternary.

Here are the notes we put together in class.

• Types of Industries

We also talked about levels of development.

• Levels of Development

Remember, that levels of development takes into account many factors:

Gross Domestic Product:

Life expectancy:

Human Development Index:

Darker blue countries have a higher HDI.

Apr. 2 – Levels of Development

Today we looked at what it means to be a developed nation.  We began with colouring in a map that categorizes the countries of the world based on their levels of development.  Your map should look like this:

Blue are the developed nations, orange are newly industrialized and red are developing nations.  But what does all that mean?  We took a day in the computer lab to do some research.

We looked at the CIA World Factbook and looked at three different countries: Canada, Brazil and Rwanda.  Fill in the chart and find the definitions for each indicator.

Handout

• Levels of Development

Apr. 1 – Trade

Watch this:

This cartoon was made in the 90's, so some countries he sings about no longer exist.  Can you spot which ones those are?  Which countries exist today that he didn't sing about?

Today we continued working on the trade handout.

• Trade worksheet

I also handed back the Unit Test.  Please see me if you have any questions about it.