Nuclear Waste!

Greetings Geographers!

Here is the scenario. The fictional nuclear power plant in Winnipeg, Canada just caught fire and leaked radiation all over our region. That is bad news for us. What do we do with the radioactive waste?

Would this accident prevent you from going outside, enjoying milk, walking downtown, and playing in the rain?

Something similar happened on April 26th, 1986. Chernobyl, Ukraine was run by the Soviet Union and operated a nuclear power plant. The reactor caught fire and started leaking massive amounts of radiation. Watch the video below.

Assignment: Due Today

Click on each article and answer the questions in a Word Document. By the end of the period, print this document with your name, date, and hour on it.

Article 1

How much of New York City would be leveled by the nuclear bomb at Hiroshima?

What should be done with the nuclear waste from power plants and defense projects?

Article 2

Do you think nuclear waste should be stored in Yucca Mountain in Nevada? Why or why not?

How would you design the sign to alert people 10,000 years from now to avoid this area?

Article 3

What is a curie?

Do you think the Russian government should help remove the nuclear generators they produced and lost?

Article 4

Do you think it is safe to transport nuclear waste across the United States? Why or why not? What other option do we have?

Would you want to know if nuclear waste was to be transported close to your hometown?

Urban Geography

Geographers!

Answer the questions about racial restrictive covenants using the links below. You must copy the questions below and email your answers in a word document by the end of the hour. My email address is Alexander.hoselton@mpls.k12.mn.us

http://depts.washington.edu/civilr/covenants_report.htm

http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/civilrights/mo1.htm

1.What is a restrictive covenant?

2. How were racial restrictive covenants used to segregate neighborhoods in Seattle, Washington?

3. How was Boeing Aircraft Company involved with developing segregated communities?

4. How did White community members organized to help prevent minority discrimination?

5. How did realtors help enforce racial restrictive covenants?

6. What is the legal question in Shelley v. Kraemer? What do you think about the Shelley family?

7. What people fought against racial restrictive covenants? How did they fight against racial restrictive covenants?

Battle Research

Historians!

Go to this website to research your First World War battle.

http://www.pbs.org/greatwar/resources/lesson4.html

You copied down the questions from yesterday's class. Be sure answer all seven questions.

Your Rough Draft is due tomorrow. It is not required to be typed. You need to have 300-400 words.

Truly,

Mr. H