Intro to Resources as a System
- Case Study
- Article
Water Cycle - system at work
Water - Great Lakes and Global Water Crisis
- Worksheet
- Canadian Water Crisis/Aboriginal Issues
-use Boiling Point article (Landsdowne)
-Highlight/Underline – what did you find shocking? what made you angry? why is it like this?
-HW - Read the last paragraph about racism – how is this a racism issue? – link to enviro justice
Minds-on-watch the Fort Chipewyan clip…3 minutes – How is water an environmental justice issue (put up on the blog)
HW-Take up question-How is this a racism issue? Reread last paragraph of Landsdowne article.
Intro to Resources – Water
- start with board note about water:
- Canada has 0.5% of population; 20% of its freshwater; only about 7% usable water because its in glaciers, groundwater, sparsely populated areas (Great Lakes watershed)
-show http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibTWQogsbL8&feature=related to highlight how great lakes were made and discussions about who owns water
Review Resources as a System
-Missing Salmon – pg. 70 – 75 (domino effect + stakeholders)
Water Cycle – system at work
-water as a flow – (humans don’t control regeneration process)
Water – Overfishing vs. Aquaculture – Environmental Sustainability
-Canada’s fisheries: Brief note on Canada’s fisheries
- Atlantic/Pacific, big industry, lots of jobs, overfishing, quotas, moratorium
-Watch CBC “To the Last Fish” -- Use question sheet or put questions on O/H or on board
Aquaculture
-do T-chart comparing pros and cons….is it working? (Use page 268 in text) to compare two types of fisheries
Bottled Water Video
Food System + Factory Farms
-hook: draw a picture of a farm
-meatrix – 4 problems, take up with class
-sustainable agriculture (organic) – txtbook. Pp 258 – 259
HW – does your family make sustainable food decisions? àdo the quiz at home and give yourself a score
Healthy Food a Human Resource?
show clip from “Food Inc.” – The Dollar Menu - social impacts of the food system (5min)
- Guiding Question: Should access to healthy food be a right for everyone?