What's happening the week of ...
September 3
September 10
September 17
September 24
October 1
- Earth's Interior
- Rock Cycle
October 8
October 15
October 22
October 29
November 5
November 12
November 19
November 26
December 3
December 10
December 17
HOLIDAY BREAK
January 7
Chapter 16 - An Introduction to the Study of Population
January 14
Wednesday Grade 8 visit - 20 minute classes
January 21
January 28
February 4
February 11
February 18
February 25
March 4
March 11
MARCH BREAK!!!
March 18
March 25
April 1
April 8
Chapter 23 - Fishing
April 16
April 23
Chapter 25 - Forestry
September 3
- Welcome to LPCI
- Class expectations
- Course outline
- Course website
- Activity: My Impressions of Canada
September 10
- Geographic Inventory Quiz
- Activity: Create a Mental Map of Canada
- Handout: Map Design Guide
- Map: Political Map of Canada (due the following class)**
- Activity: Graphs
September 17
- Note: Geographer's Toolkit (direction, latitude, longitude, scale, types of maps)
- Activities: for each of the above **
September 24
- finish Note: Geographer's Toolkit (direction, latitude, longitude, scale, types of maps)
- Fieldtrip: Willowtree Farm (Sept 26.27)
- Review for test
October 1
- Unit Test (Oct 1/2) bandcamp students will write the following class.
- Wordsearch and definitions
- Worksheet: Introduction to Geologic History
- Note: Planet Earth
- Handouts: Complete with above note
- Earth's Interior
- Rock Cycle
October 8
- Finish Handouts
- Film: Geology
- Finish up outstanding work for chapter 11
- Wordsearch and definitions
- Map: Landform Regions of Canada (due next week) **
October 15
- Landform Region map work period
- Film: How the Earth was Made or The Core
October 22
- Worksheet: Graphic Organizer of Landform Regions
- Kids away at Muskoka Woods
October 29
- Note to go with worksheet: Canada's Landform Regions
- Film and questions: The Canadian Shield and The Lowlands**
November 5
- Film: The Highlands**
- Test Geologic History (Chapter 11) and Landform Regions (Chapter 12)
November 12
- Landform Postcard
- Wordsearch and definitions Climate
- Worksheet: Factors Affecting Climate and Precipitation
- PD Day Friday November 16
November 19
- Report Cards distributed November 19
- Parent Teacher Interviews November 22
- Take up Factors Affecting Climate and assign Precipitation
- Map: Canada`s Climate Regions **
- Note: Two Types of Climate: Maritime and Continental (page 152)
November 26
- Handout: How to make a Climate Graph
- Activity: Practice working with Climate Graphs
Assignment: Climate - Handout to go with assignment: Climate Data (to be posted)
- Handout to go with assignment: Blank Climate Graph
- Worksheet: Content
December 3
- Wordsearch and definitions
- Notes: Soil
- Graphic Organizer: Soil Regions
- Activity: Build a soil profile
December 10
- Worksheet: Activity
- Question #3 page 180
- Question #9 page 181
December 17
- Review for Test
- Test: Chapters 13, 14, 15
HOLIDAY BREAK
January 7
Chapter 16 - An Introduction to the Study of Population
- Clip: If the World were a village.
- Wordsearch and key terms
- Worksheet: Content
- Chapter 16 content worksheet.do
- Youtube clip: 7 billion, National Geographic Magazine
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7C8M8VRKM90
January 14
Wednesday Grade 8 visit - 20 minute classes
- Handout: Population Pyramids
- Activity: Population Pyramids **
January 21
- Handout: Demographic Transition Model
- Film: Population: human demographics and worksheet**
- Wordsearch and definitions p. 213
- Worksheet: Content
- Note: Three types of Immigrants
January 28
- Newspaper Article "We need immigrants as boomers retire" Toronto Star **
- Handout and activity: Points System**
- Film: Rural Urban Migration
- Key Terms for Chapter 17
February 4
- Reading and Questions: Nunavut
February 11
- Friday February 15 PD Day
- Note: Nunavut
- Activity: Cultural Change
February 18
- Monday Family Day
- Thursday Parent Teacher Interviews (1/2 day of school)
- Film and questions: 8th Fire
- Chapter 19 - Rural Settlements
- Wordsearch and definitions
- Worksheet: Content
February 25
- Lecture: Powerpoint presentation of rural settlement
- Activity: Long Lots of Quebec
- Activity and Map: Canada's Population Density
- Issue: Rural Depopulation text page 232-233. Answer all questions.
March 4
- Map: Population Density
- Chapter 20 - Urban Settlement Patterns
- Wordsearch and definitions
March 11
- Worksheet: Content
- Powerpoint: Urban Settlements
- Activity: Different Types of Urban Cities
MARCH BREAK!!!
March 18
- Chapter 21 - Urban Land Use
- Wordsearch and definitions
- Content Worksheets
March 25
- Unit Test (March 27/28)
- Review for Unit Test
- Good Friday
April 1
- Easter Monday
- content worksheet B
- Activity: Neighbourhood Land Use Study (not the day 2 class)
- Wordsearch and definitions ch 22
- Content worksheet
- Activity: Graphing Employment Sectors
April 8
Chapter 23 - Fishing
- Wordsearch and definitions
- Worksheet: Content
- Maps: East and West Coast Fishing
- map east and west coast.doc
April 16
- Film: Sharkwater
- Film: Fish Sustainability
- Inshore and Offshore Fishing
April 23
Chapter 25 - Forestry
- Wordsearch and definitions of key terms
- Worksheet: Content
- Film: Dr. Suess's The Lorax
- Film: Sustainable Forestry
- Movie Question Sheet
- Map Activity page 311-312