Lab 2, The World You Live in Through the Lens of Geography

Odd Labs: Oct 5-7, Even Labs: Oct 12-14

Due at beginning of this lab in the lab assignment drop box for your lab section:
‘Lab 1, For Further Investigation on Your Own’ components; mental map created during
lab 1, responses to question #6 a-c, and #6 d & e; second map and justification of map.

Chapter Readings for Lab 2: Chapters 3, 4 and 5.

Lab 2 Exercise:

1) (~40 mins) Groupswill reconvene in the classroom at a computer work station in

order to research their topic on-line and to start composing their topic overview.
Additionally, groups will answer questions regarding the presentation Peter
Genzinger, the Geography and Global Studies Liaison Librarian gave in lecture
regarding reliable and credible internet sources, citations, etc. Questions
regarding Peter’s presentation can be found through the following path:
My Computer/x drive/GOEGLAB/gg102/Lab SCTN_
(2 marks) Groups will answer the questions and save their responses as their group
members’ first names and last initial only on the following drive for the
instructor to view and mark: File/Save As/x-drive/GOEGLAB/gg102/Lab SCTN_

2) (12 marks) (~35 mins) Next,

groups will complete a SWOT analysis. The SWOT
analysis template can be found through the following path:
My Computer/x-drive/GOEGLAB/gg102/SWOTAnalysisTemplate
Once the SWOT Analysis is completed, each group will save their SWOT
Analysis as their group member’s first names and last initial only on the
following drive for the instructor to view and mark:
File/Save As/x-drive/GOEGLAB/gg102/Lab SCTN_

3) (~15 mins) Next, groups

will brainstorm how its group members will conduct
individual audits of their usage/consumption/etc., based on the group’s topic.
*Remember: these audits will be a part of your final group work, which will be
displayed on your group’s poster presentation in the concourse, so make sure your
group prepares a detailed audit of as many different aspects of your topic as
possible to make your final results as interesting and as robust as possible!

4) (6 marks) (~20 mins) From

the audit brainstorming exercise, groups will produce a table
in Microsoft Excel that has column headers and rows that contain the various
components of the audit its group members will be conducting. *Note: The
length that an audit should be conducted for (i.e. 2 days, 1 week, etc.) will depend
on your group’s topic. For example, if you are auditing how much water you use
or how much waste you produce your group may want to do an audit over at least
4-5 days in order to obtain enough data for your group to work with. However, if
your topic is computers, cell phones and printers, you may want to do an audit of
how many of these items are in each of your group member’s homes, they have
used/owned in the past, etc.
 5) Once constructed, each group will save their audit table file as their group
member’s first names and last initial only on the following drive for the
instructor to view and mark: File/Save As/x-drive/GOEGLAB/gg102/Lab SCTN_
Additionally, groups should ensure that each group member has a digital copy of
the Excel group audit table file (email file to group members or save on data pin)
as each group member will need to populate the table with their personal data and
complete the audit on their own for the individual component of this assignment.

Lab evaluation details for group component:

The group component of lab 2 is out of a total of 20 marks and is worth 5% of your
overall course grade. At the end of the lab 2 session, groups must hand in/submit group
responses to Peter Genzinger’s presentation (2 marks), SWOT Analysis (12 marks) and group
audit table (6 marks).

Lab 2, For Further Investigation on Your Own:

6) On your own answer the following questions as follows:

a) (6 marks) Populate the audit table that your group developed with your own
personal data. (*Note: individual audit tables should be completed and
handed in--in hard copy (print out table) with the rest of your lab 1
assignment AND each student should also have a digital copy of their
individual audit table with them during the lab session 3 so that their
group can compile and analyze all group member’s data electronically).
b) (2 marks) How could the design of the audit your group created be improved
upon? OR, if you do not see how/where your group’s audit could be
improved, discuss why the design of the audit ‘worked’ well.
c) (2 marks) Comment on at least two trends in your usage/consumption.
d) (6 marks) Discuss at least two areas where, or two ways in which, you could
make your usage/consumption more sustainable. What significance would
making the usage/consumption of your topic more sustainable throughout
your community have on the national community? The global
community?
e) (3 marks) Discuss the various impediments to making your
usage/consumption more sustainable (personal, financial, societal, etc.).
f) (3 marks) Discuss the various ways in which these impediments could be
overcome.

Lab evaluation details and hand in instructions for individual component:

Submit an electronic copy of your individual lab 2 assignment to the ‘Drop Box’ in
MyLearningSpace’ for our course and hand in a hard copy of this assignment into the lab
assignment drop box for your lab section at the beginning of your lab session 3 (Odds:
Oct 19-21, Evens: Oct 26-28).

The individual component of lab 2 is out of a total of 24 marks and is worth 6% of your
overall course grade. You are responsible for handing in a personal audit table #6 a (6
marks), the answers to questions #6 b-f above (16 marks total), (1 mark) spelling and (1 mark)
grammar.