How are you? Today, let's look at the Tenerife airport disaster (テネリフェ空港ジャンボ機衝突事故) in 1977. Have you ever heard about it? If you haven't - then today you'll find out! The map above shows where it happened - on the island of Tenerife, in the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean. The Canary Islands are controlled by Spain.
Below are two (2) maps of where the Canary Islands are in the Atlantic Ocean:
Activity
Watch the video below. It is a re-creation of the accident.
If you go to YouTube at this link, you can turn on Japanese subtitles (字幕) if you need them.
As you watch, make notes about each step of events that led to the accident.
Watch the video as many times as you want or need. What do you see that happened? How do you think it could have been prevented?
When you are finished, explain what happened to your classmates, based on what you watched plus your notes.
Have a Happy New Year! See you in 2019!
Images: Top – screenshot taken from http://www.world-guides.com/europe/spain/canary-islands/lanzarote/lanzarote_maps.html/Maps of Canary Islands in Atlantic & near Morocco –screenshots taken from http://www.thinkgeoenergy.com/canary-islands-continue-quest-for-geothermal-energy-utilisation
Video uploaded from YouTube. All rights reserved to the copyright holder(s). I do not own the rights to this video. Uploaded for classroom purposes only.
How are you? Today I have a video for you about photosynthesis (光合成). Activity Watch this video about photosynthesis. It explains what the process of this is about.
If you go to YouTube at this link, you can turn on Japanese subtitles (字幕) if you need them. As you watch, make notes about each step in the process of photosynthesis.
Watch the video as many times as you want or need. What do you see that happens? What chemical processes are at work? When you are finished, explain this process to your classmates based on what you watched plus your notes.
Have a Happy New Year! See you in 2019!
Image: By At09kg - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=17219609
Here is our fall semesterfinal presentation assignment.
Topics & task
Here are your choice of topics. They're based on what we've done so far in class from the textbook since the mid-term (中間). You can choose one (1) of these:
• Genetic modification in food and plants or traits in humans
• Ethical and legal issues of DNA application
• Genetic facts, traits, and behaviors of certain animals
• Medical possibilities and/or ethical issues in cloning
Guidelines
1. Prepare rough drafts of a summary (要約) and a basic outline (あらすじ), following the guidelines from the handouts I will give you about outlining, about the topic you want to present on. The rough summary and outline will be due next week (来週).
2. On the presentation day, you will hand in final drafts of both the summary and the outline about your presentationtopic. NEW - Some starting resources Instead of a separate supporting post, I have decided to include some links to TED Talks here as some starting sources of information and research. You should do your own research, so please search around for more resources of your own - TED Talks you have searched out on your own, YouTube videos, Japanese or English websites on biological science or biotechnology, and such. But these links could help you get started on your research. Each one of these talks come with Japanese subtitles (字幕) and both English and Japanese transcripts of the talks if you need them. Important note: Do not copy anything word-for-word from the transcripts! You can point to things a speaker says in a talk, but please do not plagiarize (盗作して) any of the content.
Genetic
modification in food and plants or traits in humans:
Nina Tandon – Could
tissue engineering mean personalized medicine? Click on this link here for this TED Talk. Dean Ornish – Your genes are not your fate Click on this link here.
Ethical
and legal issues of DNA research:
Ellen Jorgensen –
What you need to know about CRISPR Click on this link here.
Keolu Fox – Why genetic research must be more diverse Click on this link here.
Genetic
facts, traits, and behaviors of certain animals:
Tony Buffington – Why
do cats act so weird? Click on this link here. Prosanta Chakrabarty – Clues to prehistoric times,
found in blind cavefish Click on this link here.
Medical
possibilities and/or ethical issues in cloning:
Richard Resnick –
Welcome to the genomic revolution Click on this link here.
A note about this last link: It is not directly about cloning, but the possibilities Resnick discusses in his talk may have an impact on cloning research.
NEW - Presentation tips and hints
Here is a short and funny, but important video on good and bad presentation tips and hints. Watch this one!
Deadline (締め切り)
We will do the presentations on January 19th, 2019 (1/19/2019), so you have over one (1) month to prepare these.
Special note:
In your speaking and writing, use some of the vocabulary that you have seen and learned from the textbook, though you are not limited to only vocabulary from those units.
But – you cannot use your written composition as a script for your presentation!
Good luck!I look forward to seeing, and reading about, your choices of topics.
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