Create groups with at least one person from each presentation groups from the last lesson:
Using the Law reading on social responsibility, prosocial behaviour and altruism answer the following questions:
What factors influence whether a person acts or does not act to help when they see someone in need?
Are there cultures that are more helpful than other cultures?
What are some of the motivations to help?
What is the difference between altruism and prosocial behaviour?
Individually think of a situation in which you helped others, and analyse the reason/motivation for why you did it?Are there other reasons why someone might exhibit the same behaviour?
Lastly, we will watch the PBS video on children being naturally altruistic.
Discussion: What are the strengths and limitations of the study?
In your groups:
Brainstorm 2 experiment you could do to answer a question about altruism.
Create a research question. What will you try to prove/disprove?
Create one experiment with informed consent
Create one experiment without informed consent
Have step by step descriptions of your experiments
Explain what kind of observations you would record. (quantitative vs qualitative)
What kind of conclusion could you draw from your study? How would you know it is reliable?
Explain the concept and importance of biodiversity in tropical rainforests. Examine the causes and consequences of reduced biodiversity in this biome.
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Part 1: Intro to Biodiversity
World Ecosystems
The sun supplies the overwhelming majority of energy
The energy is absorbed by plants through photosynthesis
It is then redistributed to other species through
Decomposition
Combustion
Consumption
The biosphere is the part of the earth where all living thing live.
All elements are directly or indirectly interdependent.
An ecosystem is an interdependent community of plants and animals together with the habitat to which they have adapted.
Organisms can be either producers or consumers:
Producers convert energy from the environment into carbon bonds
Plants are the most obvious examples of producers; plants take energy from sunlight and use it to convert carbon dioxide into glucose (or other sugars).
Another word for producers is autotrophs
Energy and nutrients are passed from organism to organism through the food chain as one organism eats another.
Decomposers remove the last energy from the remains of organisms.
Inorganic nutrients are cycled, energy is not.
Biodiversityis the biological diversity of all forms of life on earth: plants, animals and microorganisms. It refers to to species diversity, variations within species, interdependence of species, and habitat diversity.
Exercise: In groups, you will explain one of the following model. Create a (max) one page factsheet to share with the class
Trophic levels
Energy flows within an ecosystem
Pyramid of numbers, biomass and energy
The importance of tropical ecosystems – See also and this
Include a vocabulary and definition list, useful website list and images
We will present 20 minutes before the end of class, or when you are all done.
Introduction to Psychology and the study of human behaviour.
Nature vs nurture discussion
What did your nature vs. nurture activity tell you?
Did you disagree with your parents on some parts?
Can you come up with a general correlation or rule?
Last class, we looked at twin studies and what they tell us. twin studies nature vs. nurture. What conclusion can we make from studying twins? How does this relate to you?
Part 2:
Watch the following clip on twins separated at birth, then answer the following questions:
What unethical decision was responsible for the situation described in this video?
Can you think of situation when it might be justified to be unethical in the pursuit of scientific knowledge of genetics or evolution?
What is the most powerful evidence in this video that nature is more influential than nurture in explaining, predicting, or understanding human behavior?
Here is a more detailed video of the twin girls separated at birth. Summarize the findings of twin studies and what they can tell us about the nature vs. nurture debate.
In groups, try to come up with broad generalisations about behaviour associated with nature and nurture. Can you find some kind of pattern?
Exercise: In groups, you will read Law p251 to 256 and each group will explain their section of the reading and answer these questions:
253 #1a, b
253 #1 c, d
254 #2
256 #3a, b
256#3c, d
You will present your answers on this slide show: 9A9C
2.Examine the environmental and human factors affecting patterns and trends in physical water scarcity and economic water scarcity.
Question:
Create an essay outline, with thesis statement and three or four supporting arguments answering one of the following question:
Your outline must include the following vocabulary: Potable water, aquifer, evapotranspiration, economic scarcity, physical scarcity, water stressed areas, water scarce areas, water table, groundwater
”Examine the environmental and human factors affecting patterns and trends in economic water scarcity in Ethiopia”
or
”Examine the environmental and human factors affecting patterns and trends in economic water scarcity in the Ogallala Aquifer”
Or:”Examine the environmental and human factors affecting patterns and trends in economic water scarcity in Turkmenistan”
Use Codrington p. 124 to 129
Reminder: Examine: Consider an issue or concept in a way that uncovers the interrelationships and assumptions
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Part 3: Examine the factors affecting access to safe drinking water
Summative task:
In groups of 2 or 3, create a 3 minute video answering the following question:
For a specific region, examine the factors affecting access to safe drinking water and suggest a possible solution to the problem.
To answer your question, you will focus on at least one of the following themes:
Quantity vs Quality
Disease
Economic benefits of safe water
Pollution
Desalination
Your video must be more than 3 minutes long
You will be graded on the IB paper 1 mark band
We will continue working on this during class on Thursday.
Sonaar Luthra demonstrates his quick and simple test to gauge if water is safe.
Engineer Michael Pritchard demonstrates his Lifesaver Bottle, capable of sterilizing dirty water in seconds. He believes that his invention could easily help meet the Millenium Development Goal of halving the number of people without access to safe drinking water by 2015.
What is one possible explanation for the dominance of black athletes in sprint events? Why is this a dangerous and/or erroneous assumption to make?
Write a blogpost explaining your understanding of the Nature VS Nurture debate. Using examples, give your opinion on the theme. Is our behaviour dictated by our genes or our environment? When you write about psychological studies, you must refer them by the name of the read researcher(s).
Using the Nature vs. Nurture (handout 1 and 2), read the arguments and then fill out the chart on the back, and check with your family tonight on whether or not they agree with you, and please bring your completed sheet for tomorrow’s class , ready to discuss your answers.
Now that we have collected all of our data, it is time to put it all together.
First, make sure all of your paper data is inputed here
PART 2 – graphing results, analysis, conclusion and evaluation
Please use clear headings for these sections.
ANALYSIS
First you will graph your data in order to analyse your findings
* Note – Graphs can be computer generated or done by hand and must have titles, referred to and be integrated into the text, where you talk about them. You should use a variety of suitable graphs to display data. They must be clear, have labelled/numbered axis and titled. Be as creative as you want when illustrating all of your work.
Write your analysis under the headings of each Hypotheses. You will state what we expected with reference to our studies on coastal processes and landforms.( use what we have learned in class! ) You will analyse ( describe and explain ) the data you collected with regard to the expectations of a destructive beach, and state whether or not you have proved or disproved each hypothesis. DO NOT ANSWER THE RESEARCH QUESTION. You will do this in the conclusion.
The beach gradient is steeper towards the back of the beach
Create a beach profile by graphing the angle of slope from each quadrat of your transect and analyse this bearing in mind what we know about a destructive profile (use class averages)
Beach material will be larger and more angular towards the back of the beach
Create 1 graph to illustrate your findings roundness and size and analyse what you found. (use class averages )
The waves will be high ( 1 metre or more ) and frequent ( more than 12 per minute )
Using a table to illustrate the data and graph the 2 class averages..
There will be a strong longshore drift
Analyse your findings referring to prevailing wind, direction of movement and time taken for any movement of material over 10m. If it is over 3m per minute then it is considered strong.
5. There is natural evidence (erosional landforms) and evidence of Mitigation (man-made defences) which illustrate that show the beach is being destroyed.
Using a field sketch and the observational notes you made as well as photographs present any evidence of the above. Use lots of photos and be creative here. Annotate your photographs to show what they illustrate.
CONCLUSION
Sum up what you found. Are your hypotheses mainly proven or disproven? Go through each hypothesis and state whether it’s proved or disproved, based on the summary of your findings you will conclude and give your answer to the question: “ Is the beach at Kamakura Inmuragasaki a destructive beach?”
EVALUATION
Briefly evaluate (discuss positive and negatives)
the methods and how these might have been improved (not the execution of your peers!)
suggest how the study/methodology might be improved
IB requirement: Explain the causes of soil degradation. Discuss the environmental and socio-economic consequences of this process, together with management strategies.
I will be in Kamakura today, conducting fieldwork with the grade 10 InS class. Here is your work:
Gr 12:
10 minutes to prepare your presentations
Once the presentations are done sit around the table at the centre of the room.
You will now have a 15 minute (or longer if the conversation is good) socratic seminar ( open discussion where each comment must be supported by a fact you have researched) answering the following IB-style questions:
“The causes of global climatic change are essentially human.” Discuss this statement.
“Global climate change will increase disparities in development.” Discuss this statement, referring to examples.
