Here’s what’s up with my Alberta book! Come take a look!

Hi everyone, welcome back to my blog!

“The world reveals it’s self to those who travel on foot.”- Werner Herzog. If you read my maker post you’ll know that we had a grade 9 PLP field study already, and that we did a lot of walking! If you haven’t already read my maker post here’s a link to it. https://www.blog44.ca/ailieh/2023/10/12/173/. In that post I talked about the maker aspect of our Alberta Field study, and how we made videos to tell a story.

In humanities, our question was, how is the geography of the west shaped who we are today? How did we answer this? Another one of our field study books! If you haven’t read another one of my posts: We were Ore-gone for a while but now we’re back, then here it is. https://www.blog44.ca/ailieh/2023/06/09/112/. It explains what we did last year on our grade 8 field study in Oregon, and it also has the book that we did last year embedded in it!

The most important thing we learned about on this trip, was the five themes of geography. Location, Place, Geography Human environmental interaction and Movement. Our job in Alberta, was to find examples of each of these elements. We made comic life’s depicting these elements! Mine is included in my book.

This time our book was made up of, after choosing photos from each place, answering the same three questions for each place. What is geography through one or more of the Five Themes of Geography? What is the historical significance of this photo? Your own connection to the photo?

I enjoyed all of the places, but if I had to pick my favourite it would have to be the Sulfure Mountain hike, and the view from the top! Here’s what we saw when we were up there.

I really enjoyed the format of this book and had a lot of fun gathering this information by the experiences I had! My book took quite a lot of editing, but the end product I’m very happy with! I had a cartoon character that I used in my Oregon book and I made an older version of it for this book.