Académique Documents
Professionnel Documents
Culture Documents
Geographic
Environments
World Geography,
Grade 10
Just Do It
Jot down
interesting
information to
share with the class
as you watch the
video.
Guiding Question:
VA. DOE. WG.2 The student will analyze how selected physical and ecological
processes shape the Earths surface by
identifying regional climatic patterns and weather phenomena and their effects
on people and places;
NCSS Standards:
Group One (Left side): Pick up the Washington Post article Scientists Report
Devastating Death at Great Barrier Reef
Group Two (Right Side): Pick up the CNN article The Great Barrier Reef Is Not Actually
Dead
BOTH GROUPS: Pick up TWO SCIM-C pages. You will complete one as you read the
article assigned to you by group. You will complete the other when the other group
presents their Skim-C on the opposite article.
SCIM-C Refresher
The Washington Post, Scientists Report Devastating Death at Great Barrier Reef
Monitoring/Questioning:
Inferencing:
Contextualizing:
Summarizing:
Group Two Presentation
Monitoring/Questioning:
Inferencing:
Contextualizing:
Summarizing:
Activity Wrap Up
What is different about the two articles? What does this tell us
as historians?
What can we learn from comparing sources?
Do both articles advocate that humans have an impact on the
environment around them? How so?
How do humans impact
and interact with the
natural habitats that
surround them?
Some Positive Interactions
Rebuilds habitats
Economic revenues
Provides jobs
Some Positive Interactions
Recycling programs
Reduces waste
Protected environments
Deforestation
Pollution
Destruction of ecosystems
Sewage Waste
Global Warming: Myth? Real? Well discuss this one in depth next class...
Exit Slip