1. Objective (READ)SWBAT describe the effects of the Soviet

Union’s policies on the environment.

2. Question of the Day. (TURN OBJECTIVE INTO A QUESTION)

3. Warm-up (ANSWER)

1. How would you improve the lasting effects of the Chernobyl disaster?

2. CLASSROOM PROCEDURES REVIEW – What is the most important benefit of completing the warm-up activity?

Conversation Yes, whisper, to help kids

Help NO Orso, notebook, text, other kids

Activity 1. Question of the Day

2. Answer focus q’s (3 mins)

Movement Yes, get notebook as you enter

No, use hand signals

Participation Right = sitting, writing, helping

Wrong = no binder, no Q of Day

Activity WARM-UP

Conversation None, raise a hand to speak, write comments in the margin to say during a commercial break

Help Raise hand, notebook, text, NO other kids

Activity Taking notes, hearing directions, explaining info, important news

Movement NO, no bathroom during TI

YES, hand signal for pencil

Participation Right = silent, writing, awake

Wrong = talking, not writing

Activity TEACHER INSTRUCTION (TI)

Conversation Yes, whisper, to help kids, be on task

Help Orso, notebook, text, other kids

Activity Viewing websites, creating products

Movement Yes, get laptop when approved

No, use hand signals after seated

Participation Right = typing, writing, helping

Wrong = anything other than what is assigned

Activity LAPTOPS

Conversation Yes, whisper, to YOUR GROUP, be on task

Help Orso, notebook, text, group members

Activity Creating products

Movement Yes, to get with group, desk olympics

No, use hand signals after seated

Participation Right = whispering, working, helping

Wrong = talking to other groups, not participating, not helping

Activity GROUPS

Table of ContentsDate Title Lesson #

11/16 European Union 38

11/18 EU DBQ 39

**RUSSIA (EURASIA) UNIT**

11/23 Cover Page 40

11/24 Cut-Away Boxes 41

11/30 Human-Environment Interaction

42

1. Go to the next fresh page.

2. Write the title “HEI”

Laptop Directions

1. Open the power point called “Chernobyl -09 L.” – Go to S:) Student – Student Read Only –

Orso folder – Chernobyl – 09 L.

2. Use it to complete the Facebook Photo Album Assignment (1-10).

Chernobyl - Pictures

READ ONLY

Photo Album Assignment

• Pretend you visited the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and took the following pictures (1-6)

• Pretend you are creating a Facebook photo album of each picture.

Directions1. Number in your notebook 1-10. 2. Write a caption that you would put in your

Facebook photo album for pictures 1-6.

1. This is an aerial photo of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant taken two or three days after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear plant explosion which spread clouds of radioactive dust across the western part of the Soviet Union and Europe.

READ ONLY

2. The power station, which rendered the town uninhabitable for centuries, looms on the horizon, two-and-half kilometers away.

READ ONLY

3. Nature has been reclaiming the abandoned town. Wild boars roam the streets at night. Birch trees have been growing at random, even inside some apartment blocks .

READ ONLY

4. A cemetery of radioactive vehicles is seen near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in this Nov.10, 2000 nuclear accident at Chernobyl.

READ ONLY

5. Then five-year-old Alec Zhloba, suffering from leukemia, looks on in a children cancer unit at a hospital in Gomel, Belarus, in this March 19, 1996 file photo. Some 70 percent of the fallout from the 1986 Chernobyl disaster fell on Belarus.

Health Effects

READ ONLY

6. Ukrainian biology professor Vyacheslav Konovalov demonstrates a foal horse mutant in his laboratory in Zhytomyr, 120 km west of Kiev, Ukraine on March 11, 1996. He collected plant and animal mutants and human embryos and planned to create a warning museum.

Effects on Nature

READ ONLY

Pictures 7-10

• Open the Word document called “Chernobyl Pictures Website.” – Go to the S:) Student – Student Read Only –

Orso folder – Chernobyl Pictures Website.

• Choose four more pictures from the document.

• Briefly sketch each picture and include a caption to complete your fictional facebook album.

DAY 4 - SOLUTIONS

Directions: • Write this title in your

notebook.

• This information will help you with your assessment today.

CAUSE REVIEW - Soviet Union Policies

• Industrialization – was done too fast

• Modernization – Soviet Union needed infrastructure

• Cold War arms race – must develop nuclear power

1) The Volga –1) The Volga – view the video clip view the video clip on the Volga Riveron the Volga River

• http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/enlarge/volga-river-cathedral_pod_image.htmlhttp://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/enlarge/volga-river-cathedral_pod_image.html

The VolgaThe Volgawww.chem.memphis.edu/.../interesting-visits.htm

Pollution of the Volga RiverPollution of the Volga River• During rapid industrialization, many factories were built along

the Volga• Some pollution is trash but most is from chemical factories• The water is harmful to drink, harmful to the fish and causes

sickness

http://ec.europa.eu/research/star/index_en.cfm?p=36http://ec.europa.eu/research/star/index_en.cfm?p=36

Image Courtesy of NASA Earth Observatory

Volga RiverThis is the Volga River Delta.

This is the Caspian Sea, notice the brown sludge the Volga is dumping in it.

This is the Volga River.

Pollution of the Volga River

• Damming for industrial purposes causes flooding http://www.biodets.de/home/Behrends/page1_9.htm

Pollution of the Volga River

• Pollution from an oil spill en.rian.ru/russia/20090804/155725996.html

Pollution of the Volga River

• Clean-up efforts are underway http://www.wcfcourier.com/news/top_story/image_9d7b0478-cc45-5ddc-b7e2-6c06da9eb974.html

The Shrinking Aral SeaThe Shrinking Aral Sea• Original borderhttps://lpdaac.usgs.gov/var/ezwebin_site/storage/images/

media/images/data_in_action_images/aral_sea_continues_to_shrink_august_2009_08_28_2009/23711-1-_medium.jpg

Original Borders

The Shrinking Aral Sea• Dust storms make the environment even Dust storms make the environment even

more harshmore harsh http://www.russiankafe.com/images/aral_sea_dust_storm.jpghttp://www.russiankafe.com/images/aral_sea_dust_storm.jpg

Shrinking Aral Sea

• Desertification (expansion of deserts to the outer Desertification (expansion of deserts to the outer moist regions) moist regions) of the Aral Sea region led to this…

Shrinking Aral Sea

Shrinking Aral Sea ocho.uwaterloo.caocho.uwaterloo.ca

Shrinking Aral Sea http://ec.europa.eu/research/star/index_en.cfm?p=36http://ec.europa.eu/research/star/index_en.cfm?p=36

Shrinking Aral Seahttp://keralaarticles.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/aral-sea.jpg http://keralaarticles.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/aral-sea.jpg

Aral Sea Clip

Aral Sea Clip Questions:

1. What is being done to fix the problems created by the disappearing Aral Sea?

2. What else do they need to fix?

HEI - Assessment

• Divide a piece of official EPA paper into three sections.

• Titles for each section:– Chernobyl (p. 368), Volga River (p. 352), Aral

Sea (p. 353).

HEI Assessment

• Each section must include the following:1. Picture of the disaster. (10 points)

2. Caption underneath the picture that explains how it happened. (10 points)

3. Explain how you would solve this problem today or at least make it a little better. (10 points)

- Hint: Come up with ideas that improve the effects. The effects are the worst part.

HEI Assessment - K

• Each section must include the following:1. Picture of the disaster. (10 points)

2. Caption underneath the picture that explains the following (10 points) : A. How it happened. B. The worst effect that demonstrates how each issue a disaster.

3. Explain how you would solve this problem today or at least make it a little better. You must include and explain at least 2 strategies for each issue. (10 points)- Hint: Come up with ideas that improve the effects. The effects are the worst part.

Chernobyl Aral Sea Volga River

Picture Picture

Caption: Explain what happened.

Caption: Caption:

Solution: How would you fix it or make it a little better now?

Solution: Solution:

Chernobyl Aral Sea Volga River

Picture Picture

Caption:A. How it happened.

B. The worst effect that demonstrates how each

issue a disaster.

Caption: Caption:

Solution: How would you fix it or make it a little better now? (2 strategies)

Solution: Solution:

HEI Assessment – Part 2

1. Question of the DayAnswer the question of the day in your notebook like usual.

2. ParagraphPrompt - Do you think it was worth it for the

Soviet Union to rapidly industrialize and rapidly modernize? Explain why or why not. – Bring up the Volga River, Chernobyl, and Aral Sea

in your answer.

• Put the paragraph on the back of your EPA paper.

Your To Do List…

1. Turn in your assessment.

2. Pick up the directions for the Facebook assignment we started on Wednesday. Complete it and get it approved.

3. Check out the Google Earth Tour for Chernobyl and the Aral Sea in the S:) Student – Student Read Only – Orso Folder.