Friday, December 11, 2009

Today's schedule is C-D-Lunch-B-A

C - Introduction to Law 9/10 - Today we are going to watch an episode of "I Detective" called Terror Tactics. In this show the investigation of a crime is followed and at key points the narration stops and you'll be asked to make a decision as if you were a detective in the case. I will ask you to keep track of your choices and we'll see what kind of criminal investigator / detective you'd make! In the remaining time you may work on your crime scene reconstruction activity.

D - Law 12 - Today I am giving you the entire block to look through the case study project I introduced to you yesterday. Feel free to talk with each other about what you think and what cases you may be leaning towards.

B - Geography 12 - Today we are off to the library to begin three days of working on our severe weather power point assignment. The assignment follows:

It has been a few months now since your geographic consulting company created a successful report for the town of Orting Washington on the dangers of Mt. Rainier and building a new school to accommodate growth. After some well deserved time off, you then completed a pamphlet for Parks Canada on the dangers of Mass Wasting in the Canadian Rockies which is still being distributed to back country enthusiasts. With the profits that your company made from the Parks Canada contract, you decided to take some time off and headed to the American Midwest for a 10 day Tornado Alley tour with Violent Skies Tours. True to form you made some contacts with people through the owners of the company and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has hired your company to create a PowerPoint presentation on severe weather. NOAA has indicated that the topics that you can research are: Tornadoes, Hurricanes, Thunder Storms, Lightning, Hail, Blizzards, Ice Storms, Drought, or Fire Storms. You will need to research the following about your topic:

1.What causes the Severe Weather Event to occur?
2.What kinds of damage does the Severe Weather Event inflict?
3.How is the Severe Weather Event detected and monitored?
4.Where does your chosen Severe Weather Event occur most often in North America?
5.What safety precautions should one take in order to survive your chosen Severe Weather Event?
6.Give examples of the most extreme occurrences of your chosen Severe Weather Event that has happened in Canada, the United States and the world.
7.A List of the websites that you used to assist in the compilation of this assignment.

There are some websites of note that can help:
National Severe Storm Laboratory
National Hurricane Centre
Storm Prediction Centre
FEMA (look at Types of Disasters)
Environment Canada Lightning webpage
How the Weather works
The weather world 2010 project
USA Today Weather page
Natural Hazards Centre U of C
Hurricane Preparation website
Winter Weather Awareness
Weather Channel Classroom
UK Official weather classroom
NOAA Weather classroom
ONE STOP SHOPPING!!- COLORADO UNIVERSITY LINKS PAGE FOR NATURAL DISASTERS

A - Social Studies 11 - Today we'll finish up the Cold War by focusing on the Mulroney Era in Canadian politics and you'll add questions 1 & 2 from page 156 to your work from yesterday (questions 2, 3, & 4 from page 150). We'll also watch the last ten minutes of the Atomic Cafe video and I'll also show you an NFB cartoon by Richard Condie called "The Big Snit" (which is a weird take on the cold war but more of a short movie about the relationship between a husband and wife From the NFB: This wonderfully wacky animation film is a look at two simultaneous conflicts, the macrocosm of global nuclear war and the microcosm of a domestic quarrel, and how each conflict is resolved. Presented with warmth and unexpectedly off-the-wall humor, the film is open to a multitude of interpretations). All of your Cold War questions will be due today.

After, we'll examine the dramatic changes to Canada's culture and identity as a result of the "baby boom" generation. We'll look at how the government tried to protect Canadian culture and the economy along with the development of both the environmental and woman's rights movements. We'll watch a few episodes of Canada: A People's History and then you'll need to work on question 6 from page 167; questions 1 & 2 from page 172; question 2 from page 176 and questions 2 & 3 from page 182 of the Counterpoints textbook. This WILL NOT be for homework; we'll continue the work on Monday.

Pau Hana Ohana!