Meadowlands, Bears, Zombies- It all comes together

Today after the Meadowlands storytelling presentations we will review our preliminary bear research so that we can use it to craft strong Thesis Questions.

After which we will do our first round of ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE Scenarios.

image from the CDC's website

Florida Zombie Alert

DUE WEEK 10

-Create an annotated bibliography that addresses your question with at least 3 published primary sources-
(Sample annotated Bibliography here)  
-On a separate page, list in paragraph format ( 1 page max) the answer to your question(s)
-If your questions is not answered completely, mention in your page what parts of your question are answered and what areas need more data.

Hint: This will eventually become a longer research paper.  If you organize your research by laying out a series of quotes from sources, that is fine for your research. But your paper may not be a list of quotes from your research. You should not have more than 2 quotes in 1 page of paper.  Instead, read your list of quotes to yourself. Put it away. Without looking at your quotes, write what you remember from them and explain why they're important. This would be the rough draft for your paper.


YOUR THESIS QUESTION WAS ONE OF THE FOLLOWING:

• What questions do we ask in order to determine if our current bear management policies are effective?
• Are bear populations growing or shrinking in our area and why?
• What other locations have high densities of people sharing space with large bear populations?
• At what places in local government should bear-human interaction be managed?
• Are there current policies in place to prevent problems caused by bear-human interaction? How could these policies be improved?
• What are the current procedures in place for counting bears and recording bear-human interactions? How could these policies be improved?
• Thesis questions on coyotes in northern nj
• What questions do we ask in order to determine if our current coyote management policies are effective?
• Are coyote populations growing or shrinking in our area and why?
• What other locations have high densities of people sharing space with large coyote populations? If so, are they experiencing coyote attacks or other issues?
• At what places in local government should coyote-human interaction be managed?
• Are there current policies in place to prevent problems caused by cyote-human interaction? How could these policies be improved?
• What are the current procedures in place for counting coyotes and recording coyote-human interactions? How could these policies be improved?

WK 8_ Bear Research Library Session

Bear research.

Goals:

-Determine non-traditional research sources

-Perform Low-Level "GSearch"

-Determine research questions

-Use library databases to perform research

-Create data tables and data maps for comparative data

-Use Comparative data to form a hypothesis and create additional research questions

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/06/150626-black-bears-animals-science-nation-conservation/

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/summer-bears-1.3721992

http://www.dec.ny.gov/animals/7215.html

About NJ's Bear Management Policy

What types of bear-human issues are recorded? Bear nuisance/ property damage. Bear attacks.

When gathering information to report back, note the type of issue, the date and the location.  This will help us answer questions about where  issues are happening and if there is a general trend over time. It could also help us form questions about why.

Where are bears in the state of NJ and is their population changing over time? 

We need county data about bears per county for each year in the years 2000-2019. This data will tell us if the NJ bear population is growing or shrinking,  and if the range is growing or shrinking. Then we can ask better questions about why.

What are things that people can do to make bear encounters safer? Are there other places in the US where people frequently encounter bears? Are the situations similar enough to offer us insight on how to handle our bear issues?

What is the human population density of two of our bear- heavy counties? How has this changed over the last 20 years?

What is the bear management policy of those counties?

What methods do we currently use besides hunting to manage bear issues?At what level of government should we manage Bears? What questions do we ask to determine if our policies are effective?

**Each group is responsible for the answers to their bear research question, assigned in class. The answers are due during next week's class. The Final Research Paper will be due Week 14.

Pre Screen Jury WK 7

Black Maria Film and Video Pre-Screen Jury

We'll talk a bit about the intent of filmmakers when it comes to emotion.

How can this effect the way you receive information in a film?

WK 6 - Columbus. Research. Black Maria

Preliminary research should help you develop stronger research questions.
-what numerical answers do we have so far?
-what new questions can we come up with?


It is currently bear hunting season. Look at how bear hunt information is presented in different ways:
News 12 NJ
NJ.com
VS
Game and Fish Magazine
Born Free
VS
Realtree Store
VS
NJDEP Fish and Wildlife

In your notebooks answer these questions:

This Monday is Columbus Day.  How did we get from 1492 to 1776 to now?

What do you want to know about 1492?

What do you want to celebrate about that time?

60 cities across the US have renamed Columbus Day to Indigenous People's Day.  How do you feel about this? What would you want to do?

7 Myths and Atrocities of Christopher Columbus That Will Make You Cringe by C. Robert Gibson





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Week 7 David Francis Vaughan and Black Maria director Jane Steuerwald will meet our class at 9:30 and take you to the LAUREL HALL SCREENING ROOM where you will participate in the pre-screening JURY of the Black Maria International Film Festival.

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STORY MAP ASSIGNMENT Due week 8

Think about how you will use your meadowlands map, and the photos you took, to tell a story. Maybe the story is from that day, or from your past. Maybe the story is a family story and  just one aspect of it, a bridge, a boat, pollution, zoning, fishing, etc is related tangentially to your meadowlands day and map.

Maybe you need to compare your map to another map. Or your story to another story.

Keep your own story in mind as you watch the Black Maria film submissions.

Did you see a story that was clearly told and which you responded to personally?

What makes a good story?

When finished, your story will be presented to the class using Powerpoint, your images and maps from the Meadowlands, and additional images.

If you need ideas for your stories check out:

-StoryCorps

-The Moth

-Stories that use maps:

https://storymaps-classic.arcgis.com/en/app-list/ 

Week 5 Meadowlands Boat Tour

Meadowlands Boat Tour

Later on we will combine our water sampling with last year's water sample date here:



2018 readings Water Sample Site A (just northeast of mill creek park)
Secchi- 1ft
Water Depth 4ft
Dissolved Oxygen at bottom 4.5
Dissolved Oxygen at suface 4
Salinity at bottom 17ppt (ocean is 35)
Salinity at surface 10ppt
PH 7.5

Water Sample Site B (just south of Snake Hill/Laurel Hill)
Secchi 2.5 ft
Water Depth 5ft
Dissolved Oxygen at bottom 5
Salinity 22
PH 8