Days 58 & 59

I'm glad that you all did so well on the test... :)

Click here to find the powerpoint which has guided our discussion over the last few days.

Day Fifty-Seven (Monday)

Passport to the Caribbean - Reading 2!!!

Word Search ...

Quiz tomorrow!

Day Fifty-Six

Today I was on a field trip with my grade 9's. You were to do two things today:

1) Finish watching the Lonely Planet dvd on Cuba and Haiti. Complete the purple question sheets.

2) Begin answering the Passport to the Caribbean reading and answer Part 1 of the questions. These were not assigned for homework :)

Day Fifty-Five (Thursday)

There were a number of field trips today so our numbers in class were low. What better way to jump in to our new region than by watching Pirates of the Caribbean??? :)

Day Fifty-Four

Today we worked on two set of question sheets on the topic of the Caribbean:

1) The climate of the Caribbean

2) The physical origins of the Caribbean

Day Fifty-Three

In small groups you traced a map of the Caribbean (using an overhead) on to a large piece of poster paper. This provided you with an opportunity to see the Caribbean in large, and get a feeling for the geographic locations of the various islands. You will be using these maps for your Design a Cruise project a few weeks from now.

Next, we did some note-taking on the geographic location of the islands, types of islands, and their cultural make-up.

Day Fifty-Two

Introduction to Unit 3: Travel and the Economy, with a focus on the Caribbean!

Today we learned about Bob Marley and some of the history behind Rastafarianism.

We did a large mind map of the Caribbean on the front board... and discussed what you need to do at the start of tomorrow's class: find a projector, get an overhead of the Caribbean from me, cut paper from the roll, find pencils, and get rolling!

Day Fifty-One

Test!

Day Fifty

Test Review!

Day Forty-Nine

YOUR SAFARIS AND VOLUNTOURS ARE DUE TODAY!!

No more class time can be given for this project :(

We will be having a Unit 2 test THIS THURSDAY. Click here to find Part 1 of the review!

Today we had a lesson on the topic of Slum Tourism, or 'Poorism'. Click here to access the powerpoint. You may notice that this is a modified version of the slide show I used in class today ... I had to take out some of the images because the file was too big for google docs!

Part 2 of the test review will be handed out tomorrow...

Days 46, 47, & 48

Work periods in the library for Safari and Voluntour project!

Here are the links to your Travel Health Projects. You can have a look at them and use the information for your Safari and Voluntour projects!

Click on the health topic to access the powerpoints:

Rabies

Traveller's Diarrhea

Tetanus

Malaria

Altitude Sickness

Hepatitis A & B

Yellow Fever 1

Schistosomiasis (Bilharzia)

Meningitis

Bites and Stings

Regional Health - Kenya

Typhoid

Food and Water Safety

Day Forty-Five

Today we started our 'big' project for this unit focused on the East Africa Savannah region. You have a choice between:

1) Designing your own safari (company)

2) Researching (and experiencing) a Voluntour opportunity in East Africa. Click here.

If you choose option 2 (click here), here is a list of Voluntour opportunities in the area:

Blue Ventures - Madagascar www.blueventures.org

Earthwatch Institute www.earthwatch.org

Free the Children – Me to We trips www.metowe.com

Youth Challenge International www.yci.org

Junior Art Club (Africa - Ghana slums) www.juniorartclub.org

Right to Play www.righttoplay.com

GAP Adventure Company - Volunteer Opp’s www.gapadventures.com/trips/activity/volunteer/

African Impact www.africanimpact.com

GO Philanthropic www.gophilanthropic.com

Global Exchange - Reality Tours www.globalexchange.org/tours/

Global Crossroad www.globalcrossroad.com

Day Forty-Four

Two parts to today's lesson:

1) What's in the backpack!

2) Traveller's Philanthropy: The Do's and Don'ts of Travel Giving. Click here for the handout, click here for the powerpoint presentation.

Days Forty-Two & Forty-Three

Work period in the library lab for your Travel Health project.

Please be sure to email me your ppt. by the end of the period on MONDAY!!

pattisonmej@hdsb.ca

Day Forty-One

We ... finally ... finished ... Gorillas in the Mist!!! ... did I say 'finally'?

Okay, now we need to concentrate on our Travel Health projects. We will be working on this in tomorrow's class. You have two choices for this project:

1) Choose a common travel disease (ie: malaria, yellow fever, hepatitis A&B) and become an expert, or

2) Choose a travel region of the world (ie: East Africa, South-East Asia, Latin America) and find out what health precautions someone would need to know before travelling there.

All of you work should be presented in either Powerpoint or google.docs and sent to me when finished. Please don't include your last names on the project as I will be posting them to the blog!

Day Forty (Wednesday)

Hindu Temple Field Trip!