Mackenzie River

This week I started my project on the Mackenzie river. I have been mostly researching about the culture. I learned about the Inuits, Denes, and Metis. They were some of the first people near the river and even in Canada. I have also been starting to learn a little about how Europeans came in the the river.

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.

Charity Fair Project Blog

Summary:For the past few weeks we have being doing the charity fair project.The charity is where students make items to sell to help a charity with cause. The charity fair has lots of aspects to it.We have had to work on a trifold poster,carbon footprint, product creation,charity research, ignite presentation with script,and other things.Those are the most important thought.The fair is a great project now you can learn more this awesome project.

Backwards Looking: Before this project I had a pretty good idea about are charity and our headbands. We had done another project with these headband. So I think we got a head start a little because we had some prior knowledge. On the other hand I did not even know what the carbon footprint was so personally that was a harder one to do. It was though because I got to learn about and now I better understand the concept. I think that we knew quite a good amount of information before we started so this project was easier.

Inward Looking:I am very proud of our project. Looking at it now that we are done I say we did a great job. I think it was a challenge for use in some regards and we did have redo some stuff but over all it was pretty good.I think next time we do this we will be better prepared because we would have prior experience. I would say that maybe we could make a few changes to our speech.We had actually gotten done a little early so I think we had our stuff together and we were on task.If I were to do this again I would probably say I would want to do work like we did this time. I am proud of our work.

Outward Looking: When people look at our work I want them to recognize the heart we put in this. The topic we picked is very dear to both of us and we care alot about it.I want them to see that our charity is something is very scary. We are supporting St. Jude children's research hospital.When we were doing this we had in mind the people we could help. I think our was different from the rest because we are kid and now what it feels like to really afraid. These kids touch our hearts because they are scared for their lives.This is what I want people to notice.

Forward Looking:If I could change one thing I would change a little of our speech. I wish I had added comparisons to us kids.I wish did this because the audience is kids and it go t heart more for them knowing it's kid just like them.I think if we added this it would make them think in a different perspective thinking that they could have gotten it too. Overall looking at our project I think we did a good job but the speech could a little touch ups.When I look at this project i am proud because of what's its saying and showing to people if we added this it would have kind of been the cherry on the cake.

Erosion Data

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Summary: This week we have been gathering information about erosion. We have been doing an activity that is teaching how terrain affects erosion and how much. we have had a sheet that is from a website.We  had to determine what the hill in this park should be made of and how high it should be.  We got to  find out and record the information and see what was the best. That is what we did this week. we also read bird brain and I learned about different ways things can erode.

SP8: Obtain, evaluate and communicate information: This week we obtain, evaluate and communicate information. We saw how certain terrain can affect how much something erodes.for example it something has no plant and it high and steep it will erode a lot. I know this from are activity. I communicated my information with my supporting data. I learned it is very beneficial to used a silt and sand mixture to stop erosion. It helps keep everything in place you also want a low incline and your right there you have barely any erosion. This is what I learned this week.

Dirt and Soil

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Summary: This week we have been learning the basics about soil.We have been researching background information on it to get to understand what soil is. We also have been learning about weathering and erosion. I was reminded that erosion is the process of moving broken down rocks. Weathering is breaking down rocks. We have also been learning about how soil helps us.Most of what we have learned is introductory. That is what we have been doing this week.

SP8: Obtain, evaluate and communicate information:This week we obtain information mostly.For example we go information from the book and website provided. We answered the background information. The questions they asked where mostly like what is soil ? ,what is soil made of?, what lives in soil?, etc. We did a lot of this kind of work thought out the week. We also watched a video telling us about soil and another video telling us about weathering and erosion. So this week we did lots of information gathering. Kind of laying down a foundation for the rest of the unite.