Elicit human uses for land. Include agriculture, housing, industry, reaction, and mining. List and discuss some of the cons of land use and their consequences. Introduce the "tragedy of the commons" as applied to land use as well as water and air use.
Review adiabatic heating and cooling, and why these occur when air is rising or falling. Use diagrams to better explain the intertropical convergence zone of currents. Examine how the rain shadow forms as currents from the ocean impact upon a mountain range.
Unit 7- Introductions,Conclusions/ Qualifying arguments
Lesson Outline
We continued instruction and editing of JP's argumentative essay on self-determination. I first provided a review and instruction on elements to incorporate into a conclusion which for JP's essay included a statement as to why his thesis is important . We then focused on how to use and argue historical evidence. As JP had difficulty articulating his ideas, I provided a number of model sentences and transitions followed by commentary explaining how the evidence proved the thesis. We spent additional time discussing how to write and to organize commentary that ties back to the writer's main claim. Based on class instruction, JP worked on completing his essay in class .
Today we practiced changing the decimal form of degrees into degrees minutes seconds. This was a review, so JPaul knew what to do. Next, I showed him how to use his calculator to do the conversions easily. Then we started the concept of sectors, their area, and rotation. We will need to continue this tomorrow.
