Friday lesson plans for capstone placement.

1. Putnam County
Middle School 7th Grade Social Studies
Southern and Eastern Asia

2. Standards
• SS7G10 The student will discuss
environmental issues across Southern and
Eastern Asia.
– a. Describe the causes and effects of pollution on
the Yangtze and Ganges Rivers.
– b. Describe the causes and effects of air pollution
and flooding in India and China.

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East Asia

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East Asia

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East Asia
The Yangtze River, the longest in Asia and the third longest in the
world, is expected to benefit 800 million people after the South-
to-North Water Diversion Project is realized. However, the river
on which so many already rely has suffered severe pollution far
beyond many people's imagination. By 2003, industrial and
urban daily wastewater exceeded 25 billion tons along the
Yangtze, 90 percent of which was untreated, and the drinking
water of more than 500 cities threatened.
The river is facing six big crises: deforestation, silting, earlier dry seasons, degraded drinking water,
threatened wildlife, damage to sluices and power stations, and damage to the river's natural self-
cleaning processes.
There is insufficient planning and not enough motivation to clean up their act, whilst the law provides
no consistent redress and offers too many loopholes.
Currently, 62 counties in Sichuan have no independent environmental supervision mechanisms, and
the existing 36 county-level mechanisms are unable to enforce environmental law.

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East Asia
Yangtze River Pollution
How hungry would you have to be to eat a fish
from this river?

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East Asia

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East Asia

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East Asia
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holiesthave croppedcasethe pastof the leather of Varanasi, is consideredvastthe of
all water andspecifically at feedbanks of the ton industry who use vast as
which river, in this up tothoseIndia's ever expanding population - Theseamounts
specifically sea life for the 15 year!
pilgrimage site with tens of thousands of surely Thanks to globalisation,month to
networks of and other toxins and chemicals. filter off thethe cityfrom the Ganges
chromium canals and ditches slowly but pilgrims entering water every
bathe, wash, sip and drink the alarming drop in the water levels, especially in the dry
and it's subsidiaries causing an water.
international, national and local government this trend seems unlikely to get
The river is now a leading cause of infant and child mortality rates, skin problems and
season.
better with more and more factories cropping up every week and all running
more, serious disabilities –
under a distinct lack of regulations.

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East Asia
Raw Sewage
Chromium pollutes the Ganges
turning it toxic and poisonous

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East Asia
YET !!!

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East Asia
What are the affects of polluted waters?
 Fishing and fisheries – pollutants can outright kill the fish or create an
environment where algae can grow depleting the oxygen for the fish.
 Oddly enough people now want bottled water, which takes 2 bottles of water
to make, and then the plastic bottle ends up back in the water as trash.
 Sewage in the water produces bacteria such as Hepatitis A, E. coli, and giardia
which can cause gastroenteritis, cholera, chronic diarrhea and possible death.
 Untreated trash such as fishing line or six pack holders can kill and maim
wildlife
 Pollution can become so bad in ports and harbors that trade could be
suspended to help keep the pollution from spreading.
 Garbage can jam up Hydro-electric Power plants.
 Garbage and pollutants can make irrigation useless, poisoning the very food
eaten.
 What other issues can you think of???

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East Asia

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East Asia

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East Asia

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East Asia

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East Asia

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East Asia
The Kyoto Protocol
The Kyoto Protocol is an
international treaty which
focuses on preventing or
decreasing global warming. Air
pollution is one of the main
concerns of global warming.
What causes air
pollution? When did the
first big (man made)
increase occur?

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East Asia
 Acid rain that kills forests and can ‘melt’ buildings
 Asthma
 Ozone Depletion that leads to skin cancer
 Global Warming
 If the world is getting warmer and the glaciers melt what would happen to Miami?
 What other issues can you think of?

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Eastduring the reservoir’s 21 sluice gates.
SURAT, India — Early on a Monday morning
Asia Water then did what water
August monsoon, after several days of torrential rains, does. It surged downriver,
the engineers in charge of a massive dam about 50 miles swallowing this city of three
upstream from this diamond-polishing hub faced a million people like a hungry
harrowing crisis. With water brimming well past the beast. The diamond lanes of
permitted levels at the 350-foot Ukai Dam, according to India became a warren of
official records, and the skies showing no sign of relief, muck and ruin.
the engineers apparently threw open the In less than three days, at
least 120 people died. More
than 4,000 animal carcasses
were later hauled out of the
mud. Two weeks after the
floods, Surat’s diamond-
polishing factories were
practically empty of
workers, who had fled
fearing disease. An industry
group estimated the losses
at $60 million.

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East Asia
What are some causes of flooding? We covered a big one last Monday.

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East Asia

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East Asia
What Causes do we have for flooding?

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East Asia
A landslide in early August in Gansu killed
at least 1,239 people and left 505 missing.
More than 305 million people in 28
provinces, municipalities and regions
especially the southern and central
provinces and regions of Zhejiang, Fujian,
Jiangxi, Hubei, Hunan, Guangdong,
Floodwaters in south-west Guangxi, Chongqing Municipality, Gansu,
Chongqing municipality, Sichuan and Guizhou, and the
after torrential rains hit northeastern province of Jilin have been
areas along the Yangtze affected, while at least 4.66 million people
river. have been evacuated because of the risk
of flooding and landslides in the latter half
of June.

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East Asia
• SS7G10 The student will discuss
environmental issues across Southern and
Eastern Asia.
– a. Describe the causes and effects of pollution on
the Yangtze and Ganges Rivers.
– b. Describe the causes and effects of air pollution
and flooding in India and China.

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East Asia
 Assignments:
 Map Quiz
 1 page essay
 I will grade them and get
them back to Mr. Rogers
Monday.