Patagonia’s controversial new national park Graeme Green 

Concepts of thinking: Spatial significance, Geographic perspective, Interrelationship

Inquiry question: What might some of the impacts be on local community based on the interrelationships with this park?

Why is this area spatially significant?

How might the geographic perspectives impact the land use of the new park?

He Took a Camera to a Remote Area In Greenland. And What He Recorded Is Simply Terrifying. 

Concepts of Thinking: Patterns and Trends, Interrelationships

Activity idea: Find Greenland’s air and water temperature data to analyse the impact on the event and make predictions of patterns and trends of Greenland Glaciers. What role might people have played in this event?

Who backs whom in the Syrian conflict

Concepts of Thinking: Geographic Perspective, Spatial Significance

Inquiry question: How does spatial significance influence stakeholder support?

Activity idea: Do an issue analysis: Stakeholders position, their values, and beliefs. Develop a potential solution based on the issue analysis.

The Guardian

'Enough is enough': UN and Red Cross issue warning for states to end conflict

As wars rage in Libya, Syria and Yemen, Ban Ki-moon and Peter Maurer call for states to help refugees, rein in armed groups and end heavy weapon use in populated areas

 A young Yemeni peers through a gap in a makeshift tent at a displaced person’s camp in the country’s Amran province. Photograph: Yahya Arhab/EPA

Concepts of Thinking: Geographic Perspective

Inquiry questions:

Why are some stakeholders in the conflict ignoring international law?

Why might other stakeholders not feel they are able to uphold international law?

How might this conflict end?

As Indonesia's Annual Fires Rage, Plenty Of Blame But No Responsibility NOVEMBER 01, 2015  ANTHONY-KUHN NPR

Indonesian men fight a fire, one of many in Sumatra. Indonesia's government blames both big palm oil companies and small freeholders for the fires, but others say corrupt politicians also are to blame.

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Concepts of Thinking: Interrelationship, Geographic Perspective, Spatial Significance, and Patterns and Trends

Inquiry: Where did the fires start? What is where?

Why do these fires occur yearly? Why there?

How are these fires impacting local and global populations? Why care?

How might the occurrence of these fires be prevented? Why care?

Activity: Map out the location of the palm oil plantations. Answer What is where? Why there? why care? Add to the that map the destination locations of palm oil products. Answer What is where? Why there? Why care?

Can students come up with a potential solution to the yearly occurrence while taking into account the different stakeholders? 

The NASA GEOS-5 model is sensitive enough to show sulfur dioxide emissions from ships moving along major shipping lanes.

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Concepts of Thinking: Interrelationship, Spatial Significance, and Patterns and Trends

Inquiry question: 

What is spatially significant about the shipping lanes? What is where?

Why do the shipping lanes follow the pattern that they do? Why there? 

How will sulfur dioxide impact the interrelationship of people living near the shipping lanes? Why care?

China ends one-child policy, will allow two children for all couples

Concepts of Thinking: Geographic Perspective, Patterns and Trends, and Interrelationship.

Inquiry questions: How might this policy impact of local and global demographic patterns and trends? 

How might different geographic perspectives viewed this policy change?

How might this population policy impact the interrelationship with humans and the environment?

NATHAN VANDERKLIPPE

BEIJING — The Globe and Mail

Published Thursday, Oct. 29, 2015 7:01AM EDT

Last updated Thursday, Oct. 29, 2015 10:55AM EDT