Grade 8 Overall Expectations
Application: analyse some significant interrelationships between Earth’s physical features and processes and human settlement patterns, and some ways in which the physical environment and issues of sustainability may affect settlement in the future
- National Geographic Student World Atlas (Book)
- Pushes & Pulls (Book)
- Atlas of Human Migration (Book)
- A History of Canada in Ten Maps (Book)
- Global Weirdness (Book)
- Years of Dust (Book)
- Treasures of the Earth (DVD)
- Brilliant Maps for Curious Minds (Hoopla eBook)
- Human Migration (Hoopla eBook)
- Mapmaker Interactive (Website)
- Canadian Geography (Website)
- Settlement Patterns (Website)
- Settlement Patterns in Canada (Website)
Inquiry: use the geographic inquiry process to investigate issues related to the interrelationship between human settlement and sustainability from a geographic perspective
- Canadian Geographic Regions (Books)
- Cities (Book)
- Food and Farming (Book)
- Sustainable (DVD)
- Going to Green (Hoopla eVideo)
- Sustainable Agriculture (Hoopla eBook)
- Factors that Influence Settlement Patterns (Website)
- What Is GIS? (Database article)
- What is a Sustainable Community? (Website)
Understanding Geographic Context: demonstrate an understanding of significant patterns and trends related to human settlement and of ways in which human settlement affects the environment
- Lands and People (Book)
- Transportation (Book)
- The Plastic Problem (Book)
- The Landscape (Book)
- New Thinking about Pollution (Book)
- Endangered Oceans (Book)
- Protecting Earth’s Water Supply (Hoopla eBook)
- Rivers: The Source of Life (Database article)
- Canada: Settlement Patterns (Website)
- Resource Library: Using the Land (Website)