Term 2 & 3 Course Assignments & Projects - Team Sustainable Resources
Assignments - You must complete 1 Assignment & do your Career Presentation in Term 2,
and complete 2 Assignments in term 3 chosen from the options below
Presentation - Sign up to do your Career Presentation in Term 2
Projects - complete 7 Project level credits by the end of term 2, 10 by the end of the year.
and complete 2 Assignments in term 3 chosen from the options below
Presentation - Sign up to do your Career Presentation in Term 2
Projects - complete 7 Project level credits by the end of term 2, 10 by the end of the year.
Career Presentation
You must sign up to do your Career Presentation in Term 2 on January 30, Feb 13th or Feb 27th
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Sustainable Forestry in BC - due before end of Term 2
OPTION A - Video Summary
What are the procedures and processes in place to protect BC's public land. Write a summary of the information in this video then do your own research into BC's forestry and issues in Sustainability. Include references to support your summary. |
OPTION C - Forest Hike
Sign up for a local guided hike. I'll post several options available throughout the term. Take your camera and dress appropriately. Once you have gone on your hike and have your photo's make me a brochure using this website http://www.jukeboxprint.com/editor/brochure_creator.php then download and email me the PDF, or other brochure making program of your choice. Your brochure needs to tell me some general characteristics about the forest ecology you visited as well as issues in sustainable that it is facing. Also to be included are your photo with descriptions. |
OPTION B - Opinion on an Issue related to Sustainable Forestry
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Sustainable Energy in BC - due by February 28th
OPTION A: Video Summary Watch Solar Energy: Saved by the Sun OR Car of the Future.
Write a summary of the information in this video then do your own research into BC's solar or transportation policies and solutions. Include references to support your summary. |
OPTION B: Stave Falls Field Trip
http://www.bchydro.com/community/recreation_areas/stave_falls_visitor_centre.html The Power House at Stave Falls offers interactive games and historic displays that tell the story of how power helped build British Columbia. Take a walk through the past into the future at the Power House at Stave Falls! Learn how electricity is made and see turbines and generators up close. Historical artefacts from B.C. Electric at the Stave Falls Visitor Centre. Start your self-guided tour with a nine-minute video, "Rain", in our theatre. It introduces you to the life and times of the early 1900s. Play with experiments on the solar energy workbench in the "Alternative Energy" area. Go through the "Science of Electricity" area and test your knowledge with interactive displays that will "shock" you. Enter the "Generator Hall" and see the actual turbines and generators from 1912! Go back in time in the Historic Gallery to when electricity was a vague promise for the future and TVs and computers were still a half-century away. Appreciate the hardships and effort to build the Power House and hear the stories of intolerable mosquitoes and no safety equipment. Experience the changes made to lifestyles as the years went by. Write me an insightful summary of your learning and experience at Stave Falls including photos that you take when you are there. |
OPTION B: Opinion on an Issue related to Sustainable Energy
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Sustainable Mining in BC - due by May 23rd
OPTION A: Opinion on an Issue related to Sustainable Mining
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OPTION B: Mineing Field Trip - your suggestions?
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OPTION C: Video Summary - Oil Crisis
Watch either "The end of Suburbia" or "A Crude Awakening" Write a summary of the information in this video then do your own research into BC's energy and oil policies and solutions. Include references to support your summary. |