Travel Health Projects!!

How to avoid getting sick from food and water

Malaria

Traveller's Diarrhea!

Meningitis

Tetanus

Schistosomiasis

Chikungunya

Hepatitis A

Japanese Encephalitis - by Ginger Tea & Dumpling

Dengue Fever

Yellow Fever

Novovirus

Rabies

Bites and Stings

Days Fifty-Two & Fifty-Three

Helloooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!

Today the library lab is booked for you to work on your Safari or Responsible Tour (or Voluntour).

Please email me: pattisonmej@hdsb.ca if you have any questions ... I should get back to you shortly!

Day Fifty-One

To end our Travel Africa unit, you are presented with a choice of final projects:

1) Create your own safari in the East African Safari; or

2) Research and creatively express what you learn about a Voluntour opportunity in the same geographic region as above. Only here you use a RAFT (you choose your role, audience, formate, and theme).

Everyone was given a chance to look at both options and discuss their interests with me. You will have Tuesday and Wednesday to work on these IN CLASS ... and will be due on Thursday.

Have a wonderful long weekend!

Day Fifty

Day Fifty!

Topic #1 - Toilet talk from around the world (I think you just had to be in class to understand this one!). However, I'm very glad we were able to solve the mystery of the Indian 'squat' toilet... and China's 'trough'!

Topic #2 - Responsible Travel. Please click here to find the fill-in-the-blank handout. Please give careful consideration to all of the discussion points.

Topic #3 - Madagascar ... and ... lemurs!!!

Day Forty-Nine

Please keep sending those Travel Health projects to me! They are now due and I want to post them here...

Day Forty-Eight

Travel health project! This will be due at the end of class on Tuesday (tomorrow)! Please email me your 3 slide powerpoint ...

Here is a wacky travel destination:

http://www.nomadicmatt.com/travel-blogs/waitomos-glow-worm-caves/

Travelling to New Zealand to see ... glow worms!

World's Strangest Hotels

Click here to see some of the world's strangest hotels!

Day Forty-Seven

Today you were asked to complete the question sheets from yesterday. To follow up the readings and questions, I wanted you to consider whether you think Mass Tourism is a positive or negative activity in the East African Savannah. Write a paragraph response to summarize your position and use evidence from the readings (and information chart) for support. You can use 'I' in your response.

Please have this finished for tomorrow's (Monday's) class :)

Day Forty-Six

We continued our conversation about mass tourism. Everyone was given 2 articles ... each taking either a positive view of mass tourism in the East African Savannah or a negative view. You had questions to answer and a chart to fill out. Your Assessing Safari Tours assignment is due today! Please put it in my mailbox (staff room) if you can't find me.

Day Forty-Five

Wonderful to have everyone back... ! We started today with a brief lesson about 'mass tourism' ... looking at the formal definition of the term, and the advantages and disadvantages to this form of travel. It isn't to everyone's taste, but it is very popular for younger budget travellers. Please complete and hand in your Assessing Safari Tours assignment (see previous day for the link). You are to compare the tour options and marketing of the 2 major (mass) tour operators in East Africa. This is the last assignment that I will be including in your midterm mark, so please be sure to hand it in tomorrow!

Day Forty-Four

Today we worked in the computer lab to evaluate different safari companies. Click here to find the assignment! Hopefully everyone on the Physical Geography trip had a good time!

Day Forty-Three

Thank you everyone for today's very thoughtful and respectful discussion of the practice of FGC/FGM in the east African safannah. As tourists we need to be aware and respectful of the cultural and religious traditions of other world regions. We also need to know what types of cultural conflicts tourists may experience in these areas and reasons for these conflicts. Click here for the link to the National Geographic reading and group discussion questions.

Day Forty-one & Day Forty-two

For these two days (Wednesday and Thursday) we completed 2 question/text sheets on the East African Savannah region. I cannot post these to the blog, so if you missed these days, please see me to catch up on your work.

We also watched a bit of Departures (Zambia) to 'see' the savannah. I know that some of you love the show, so click here to get to their website. They have a Facebook site, so maybe you can all get in touch with them and see if they'll come to our school!

We also went on 'safari' in the savannah. There is another question sheet to complete with the G.A.P. adventures documentary we watched. Again, please see me for details.

Oh ... and we have a quiz on those sheets on Monday. Happy studying!

Day Forty!

We finished watching the Nature of Things: Conservation Kenya. Those question sheets should be complete! If you're interested in learning more about orphaned elephants (so amazing!) ... check out: http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/natureofthings/2010/loveofelephants/ And then we watched the play in the bearpit!!

Day Thirty-Nine

Thank you to Kandis and Nirubaa, and Corbin and Nick for presenting (what I think are) the last African case studies. Great job!

We continued our conversation about 'Conservation' efforts in Africa. We viewed David Suzuki's The Nature of Things ... 'Conservation Kenya'. I hope you are all intrigued learning about the Maasai people. Very fascinating indeed! No need to hand in the question sheet for marks, just make sure you take down the answers (I am taking them up as we go!) and keep the information safe for future reference!

Day Thirty-Eight

We watched the last 20 minutes of Gorillas in the Mist. Everyone was given time to finish the film study question sheet.

Here's the link to the Dian Fossey Gorilla Research Fund (Karisoke Research Center):

http://gorillafund.org/Page.aspx?pid=381

We had a brief discussion about the last question. Basically what I want you to do is consider and discuss all sides of the poaching debate. These include:

- Conservationists / Environmentalists

- Zoos

- Governments

- The poachers themselves (from the film, the Batwa)

- The people who purchase the goods as a sign of status/wealth (ie: gorillas hands, ivory tusks)