Volcanoes....

About 150 people had to leave their houses for the second year because of a volcano that is 10km from the town started erupting. The Chaiten volcano was said dormant for 9000 years until it woke last May. Thousands of people had left the town as ash covered the ground and went into rivers causing flooding. People had just returned but then they had to leave again because of the eruption on Thursday.

Bushfires

More people in Australia had to leave their homes because of bushfire that destroyed one house and injured three firefighters. Two weeks ago there was a fire in the state of Victoria that killed 210 people and left thousands of homeless people. Firefighters struggled to keep the fire off, but there are fears that the winds are driving the fires to other places.

Geographic Lens #4

The video is talking about the geography standards.
It focuses on the content of geography and the skills of geography.
18 content standards are divided into 6 elements: the world in spatial terms, places and regions, physical systems, human systems, environment and society, the uses of geography.
The geographic skills are: asking geographic questions, acquiring geographic information, organizing geographic data, analysis and synthesis, finding answers.

To My Friend's House

When I go to my friend's house:
I walk outside my home and I see this dog with its ripped T-shirt in front of its owner's garden. I turn left and go for 16m. While walking, I hear birds singing and on the right there is a small garden with pink and red flowers. I turn left again and walk up a small hill for 30m until I see a swimming pool in front of me. I go left again and go along the swimming pool with its palm trees around for 13m; dogs start barking at me. I turn right, around the swimming pool, and go up 75 stairs still hearing the birds singing. After going up, I turn left and go forward for more than 35m, on the sides I see parked cars, gardens, and many flowers of different colors. I stare at my right, and finally I see my friend's house. In the house in front of it, there is an old man cultivating tiny trees; he also has a parrot that his always singing. And then, I look back at my friend's habitation. Over my head, there is a basketball hoop. On the right, there is a ping pong table. On the left, there is a car. And straight ahead, I see light going through his door.
This is what I do, see and hear when I go to his house.

Puzzles and Drift

In class, we tried to make puzzles. We had pieces of blank paper and had to reproduce an double A4 piece of paper. And then, we had to reproduce a newspaper page.

Continental drift is the moving of continents. The parts of the Earth are arranged in many pieces that come together and move apart. This is the idea of continental drift.

The puzzles related to continental drift because the pieces of a puzzle are a lot like tectonic plates (which make the continental drift), when they are together, they make a whole thing, a piece of paper, or the Earth.

Geography

The first video talked about how geography affected climate, how the dry season and the monsoon are related to geography. And they tell us that geography in Greek means the description of the Earth.
The second talked about how geography affected people. In different places, they grow different kinds of food, wear different clothing, and live in the different kinds of houses.

What do I like and what do I dislike about this book?

I liked the way he survived for so many days on his skiff.
I disliked the fact that there was hardly any action, the book was mostly description. I also disliked the main theme of this book, I am not very interested in fishing.
Overall, I didn't like the book because there was really no action for a young person.