Reflection on Environmental unit

The environmental unit was something that effected me in different ways.  In the past, we had learned about ancient civilizations and countries, but never had we gotten so deep into how it worked.  The assignment where we had to design our own society and create resources accessible to the people.  After we went up and presented our thought our societies, questions were dropped on how we got those resources.  Most of the kids presenting stood up and had to take a minute to think.  A problem with that is obviously kids are going to think of stuff off the top of their heads but still the assignment really got us thinking about what a society is.  That activity is one that is beneficial in every way.  It gets us thinking in depth about resources, creates a way to experience handling a society, and its fun.  Another activity that is good enough to reflect on is the in class activity where we did the black plague switches.  It started off being just discussions about a homework we had just done, but then it continued until a moment you stopped us and told us that one of our classmates had the plague.  If you had told us when we walked in, we would have stayed away from this one infected classmate.  It was a example showing us how unexpected the black plague went around.  The most recent assignment, the Haiti assignment, was difficult.  I'm sure that was the whole idea but the notion of having to reflect on a serious event in a certain subject prior to that problem is hard.  My subject was social which sounded easy but was actually a challenging thing to come by.  Searching for information that wasn't a factor of economical or governmental was the hard part.  It does take a lot of work to prepare for a paper like that.  Overall i thought this unit was very interesting and should stay a part of history class.