Monday, January 18, 2010

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

C - Introduction to Law 9/10 - Today we are back in the library for our penultimate (second to last) day for work on our Forensic Science web page project. This assignment is due on Friday (Jan 22nd) so it would be wise of you to accomplish as much as you can in the next two days. On Friday I'll need you to post your URL (Uniform Resource Locator or web page address) on your blog and I'll have your assignment marked by Monday morning (Jan 25th). Your final marks will be posted outside of room 611 that day. Work hard!

D - Law 12 - Today we are going back into the library to finish up work on our major civil law tort project. Today will be the last day I can give you library time for this assignment and please remember that it is due this Friday (Jan 22nd). Tomorrow in class we'll look at divorce, guardianship, access, and support. Don't forget that your exam days are this Thursday and Friday.

B - Geography 12 - Today you have the class to finish work on the James Bay Hydroelectric Project topographic map assignment. You will need to work on the following questions from the Canadian Landscape topo map book 1, 2, 3, 4 a through d, 6 a and b, and 7a (page 75). On Friday I posted some web pages that would help you; look at:

CBC Archives James Bay
Canadian Encyclopedia James Bay Project
Canadian Arctic Resources Committee James Bay
York University lecture notes on James Bay
Canadian Geographic Nov/Dec 2005 Traveling the James Bay road

For on line versions of the topographic map (follow the Geogratis link here and search any of the map codes below. Once you've entered the map code click submit and you'll be taken to a download page. The map downloads as a zip file and when you open it the map will be a "tiff" picture file) you'll need the map code (#) which is:

•33F12
•33F13 and
•33F14

You can go to the Atlas of Canada site Toporama and zoom into Radisson Quebec or you could use Google Maps (type in James Bay or Radisson and then select the Terrain layer)

A - Social Studies 11 - Today we'll continue our look at comparative living standards, but I'll remind you that your Population Activity is due this Thursday. To start we are going to finish our comparison of Canada's population with that of Botswana. On the United Nations Human Development Index Canada ranks 3rd while Botswana ranks 126th (out of 179 countries in 2008). We'll try to make sense of why Canada ranks so high while Botswana ranks so low. We'll be looking at the CIDA on-line map "A Developing World" and focusing on health, poverty and hunger, education, and environmental issues in countries around the world. Don't forget a good resource is the UNDP HDI Report. You'll need to finish the class with the statistics assignment on the world's youth that I handed out to you last week.