Hi Grade 8’s,
I am really looking forward to our continuing our learning and great conversations together online! We did begin our history unit focusing on Canadian Confederation and we will resume it next week.
For the next week, I would like us to turn back to our geography unit where we learned all about megacities and population settlement patterns. You each researched a different megacity around the world and created an excellent photo collage showing the factors that led to the city’s growth, the challenges the city faces with having such a large population, and then solutions (current or aspirational) that address each challenge.
For today’s independent work period, I would like you to research your megacity again, but through a different lens. With COVID-19, megacities are the areas in particular that will face the largest challenges with having such a high population (megacity=over 10 million). Your lens today is to learn about how COVID-19 is currently affecting the megacity you researched and how the city is mitigating the effects.
New vocab word of the day is ‘mitigating’- this means lessening the impact. A great Canadian example of this is our fun snowstorms. The snow storms are still going to happen (we can’t control this), but we can mitigate the impact by ensuring we have snow tires on vehicles to reduce car accidents, having equipment to shovel snow around the house, etc.
I am available during this time and will check in on how you’re doing. I will also help each of you find reliable sources, which is so important given the issue you’ll be looking into. Here is a breakdown of how to spend your time:
- Research your megacity and how they are helping mitigate the effects of COVID-19 (Suggested time: 40 min). By the end of your research, you should have a total of 3 ways the city is helping lessen the impact of COVID-19.
- Go back to your Megacity Google Slides presentation, and add 3 new photos to your collage (1 photo for each way) (Suggested time: 10 min)
- For our first Google Meet class next Tuesday, you’ll be asked to share about why you chose each photo and describe it. Prepare what you would like to say about each photo (Suggested time: 20 min).
“See” you soon and email/Google Hangout chat with me if you have questions this morning!
Mrs. B