After introducing some of the history of Spain, Portugal, the United Kingdom, and France last week, we're back to doing more geography this week, though the history is still connected to it. We're working on several related environmental issues.

We've learned about 5 different kinds energy resources. We've mapped their locations, created a table that summarized the resources of the Spain, Portugal, France, the U.K., and Germany, discussed which were used first, and emphasized why they've been used. We've evaluated the good and bad points of using these resources. Today we did some reading and completed some guided notes as a review, and then did some new reading and had a discussion about the benefits and drawbacks of nuclear power, using the accident at Chernobyl as a case study. The review is located here: http://docs.google.com/View?id=dfszq998_46drwggzhf

Tomorrow we'll look at a brief video about Chernobyl after a demonstration of how pollution travels from one place to another. Students will then do some writing about the benefits and drawbacks of different energy resources. If we have time, we'll begin working on the effects of acid rain, which is kind of difficult for the children to understand.