What's New

Our geography department has currently purchased a digital camera and G.I.S. (Geography Information System) for the Geography students at Mac.

Department Information

Brief Facts

Number of teachers in the department: 5
Ms. C Harvey (ACL)
Mr. Kass, Mr. Platt, Mr. Stewart, Mrs. Velez
Four of our staff hold Honour Specialists in Geography.

Highlights

The Great Canadian Challenge is held in the Fall of each year for the grade 9 and grade 10 students all over Canada. We are fortunate to have had students from the school at the Provincial competition over the years.

Many field studies are offered in the Geography Department at Macdonald. They provide students with an opportunity to enrich their classroom studies with first hand experiences. During the March Break students have travelled to Greece, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Costa Rica, and France. Plans are in the works for this year to travel back to Europe. See Geography for details. The following chart describes the field trips that will be offered for the 2004-2005 school year.

What's New

Students are using ESRI Canada data base in the computer lab to produce computerized maps. New local data banks has been purchased.

Field Studies of local community using the GPS technology linked with the photos from the digital camera in presentation format. New GPS units have been purchased.

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