WAC The Three Gorge Dams

China should not build any more of the hydro electric dams. First of all they have already used a lot of money to build the dams. Over 30 billion dollars! Second of all it is taking a huge amount of the people near the river's homes. Then last but not least these dams are covering up important historical monuments like the chalk wall in china. This one I think it is sad because they are covering up some of there history. Now generations later people may forget about these important historical monuments that are not covered by the river and dam.

How I got this information from these 3 quotes of the article. First of all "Eighteen years after construction began and at a cost of more than 30 billion." Secondly "More than 1.4 million people had to leave their family homes with little financial assistance." The last time we where here we could see all of the characters." These are the quotes from the article I choose because I think they brought across some good facts and points. I will tell you more about why I choose them though.

The first quote "Eighteen years after construction began and at a cost of more than 30 billion." I picked this because it give of a clear point they spent so much money on these dams already and they could use that money way better. The second said "More than 1.4 million people had to leave their family homes with little financial assistance." I think that this a horrible thing to do China these are your people and now you kick them out of there land.Another sad thing is that these are there farmers and they had to put them some where so they moved them into the mountain.Then the last quote " The last time we where here we could see all of the characters." 

OK this makes no sense but what he is talking about is the Chalk Wall. Jordan Jones the one who wrote this article was there and the Chalk wall is a part of there history so they went to visit it.The difference this time is that they could only see half of  the characters on the wall.The rest where submerged into the water.The dams had made the water rise so now they are covered.

In conclusion China should not build any more hydro electric dams.The dam have helped them but there are way more con than pros.By building more dams they are hurting there people by taking away there home. They are covering up there important history and they are using up a lot of money.China should  use other options to make power and stop flooding. For power they could use the wind by building windmills. Then for flooding they can do thing in there cities to block the floods.There are so many better ways to do things.Making these dams are not a very good way.

Rivers

Summary: This week we have been learning about river and the parts of a river. I have learned the parts names and what they are. For example I never knew what a delta was but now I know. We also practiced labeling the parts of a river. We got to not only learn these definitions but we got to see where the are placed.

SP8: Obtain, evaluate and communicate information: This week we used definitions to locate the placement of what the ment in the diagrams.We got to use the diagrams and put the definition next to the part of the picture that had matched. I think this was useful because you got to see a visual of these definitions. It was pretty easy at first but then they got harder and harder. Like a good game you could say.

DIrt and Soil Project Blog

Summary: These few week we have been  doing are dirt on soil project. We have learn about  water erosion. water erosion is when water in our case wave are constanly hitting an  object and making it smaller.Water also moves things into a different place. It is considered weathering becuase well it is weather that break or moves something like rocks or sand.

Backward-Looking: I think work tells a story when you read about Surfers point you learn and understand what they went though. It makes you put things into perspective. It make you think what I do? Would I give up?It makes you consider what's going on to make them do this. It even has parts of a true story. Like problems,conclusion and more.I think that all studies where like stories of what happened and what they're doing.

Inward-Looking: I think this cause study had put me into perspective. It has shown me how much commotion erosion can make. At first ai thought that erosion just made land different.I never really thought of what it would do to the community. It made me think of erosion in a different way. It made me think of it more as a threat in some place and in other good.

Outward-Looking: If I where the teacher I would comment on the thing I knew we could have improved on. I think we should have practiced more becuase it a hard. I would say that we should have thought of our own solution. I think we should have done some things better. Yet if I where the teacher I would also say what was good so we could do it again.

Forward-Looking: Next time I would have a few goal I would to accomplish. One I want to be able to stay on task more because sometimes we got off task for a little. I also think that I would want to add more information to presenting. I also think I could speak a little faster and pratice more. They are kind of just general goal but they are something I can work on.