1. Human Geography Week 7? 1/4/2010

2. Monday, January 4, 2010 Objectives: Students will analyze how the food supply impacts the environment by evaluating pollution. Opener: If a week has 21 meals, on average, during how many meals do you eat meat? Would you consider becoming a vegetarian? Why or Why not? Activities: 1)Complete Opener. Copy Homework. 2)Pass out Exam Review and Extra Credit 3)Understanding the impact of meat: readings, class discussions and notes. Homework: Interview 5 people – 3 adults and 2 students – Would you consider becoming a vegetarian? Why or why not? Due Tomorrow.

3. Classwork: Assessing the impact of meat production on the environment Step 1: Read your article and take notes on all the problems that your article discusses. Step 2: Report out to the class. Step 3: Everyone will take notes on everyone else’s presentation. Step 4: Notes will be graded.

4. Tuesday, January 5, 2010 Objectives: Students will examine the impact of meat on food production by evaluating the connection to global warming. Openers: What is the difference between Malthusians and Cornucopians? Activities: 1)Complete Opener. Copy Homework. Pass back Psych folders. 2)Discuss Opener. 3)Complete class activity from yesterday. 4)Watch An Inconvenient Truth and answer questions Homework: Create at least 20 flashcards for the midterm exam.

5. Impact of meat production on the environment 1)Animal production takes up a lot of land. 80% of farm land is used for animals – they are destroying the natural ecosystems. 2)It takes16 lbs of grain to produce 1lb of meat – meat is very inefficient. 3)More than 1/3 of US fossil fuels are used to produce meat (that’s a lot of energy!). Meat production causes pollution – animals need to be transported in trucks, etc.

6. 4) It takes 300 gallons of water to produce food for a vegan for a day. 4,000 gallons of water to produce food for a meat eater. 5) 2.9 million acres of rainforest were destroyed to grow crops to feed animals. KFC is a major problem! 6)Animals suffer – hurt, treated cruelly, fed hormones.

7. 7) 5000 pigs produce as much poop 50,000 people. 8) The poop runs off into the water and contaminates the water, killing fish and water wildlife. 9) The poop also gets into the air and pollutes the air with chemicals and feces. 10) Global warming is caused by greenhouse gases – like methane, nitrous oxide, ammonia which come from meat production.

8. 11) 840 million people in the world are starving. If we stopped eating meat there would be enough food for everyone. 13) We are destroying the environment – if we keep eating meat we’ll not have enough land to produce human food. 15) World population increases at 250,000 per day but we are killing the fish (eating and pollution) and they can’t replenish themselves.

9. Wednesday, January 6, 2009 Objectives: Students will evaluate global warming by examining its causes and consequences. Opener: Summarize the impact of meat production on the environment. Give at least two reasons why someone might become a vegetarian. Could you be convinced? Why or why not? Activities: 1.Complete opener. Copy Homework. 2.Discuss opener. 3.Watch An Inconvenient Truth and answer questions. Homework: Read the article and answer the questions on the last page (might have to write answers on your own paper). Due Friday.