Tuesday, February 8. 2011

D & A - Criminology 12 - Today we will be in the library working on our first journal / blog entry. Over the long weekend I asked you to develop your own theory as to why crime happens. I asked you to use the list of brainstormed items from our class discussions, your notes on the history of criminology and from the Crime Theory website. Today you will need to set up a blog for the course. You may use Google's Blogspot (what you're looking @ right now is an example), Wordpress, Live Journal, Bloguni, or any other blog creation site you choose. I would HIGHLY recommend staying with blogspot, wordpress, or live journal. You will need to develop a blog, write out your crime theory, and then find an article about a recent crime here in Canada (you can find many crime news stories at the CNews Crime section of the Canoe website). Make a link to the news article on your blogsite and then write how your theory explains the crime.

By the way...Like I said to you in class a career as an RCMP officer is an excellent opportunity. So Check out the RCMP video here to see why a career in the Mounties may be for you.

B - Earth & Space Science 11 - Today we'll go over the work we completed Friday for our chapter 1 review. After, we'll start to look at minerals and mineral structure. We'll review elements, atoms, and chemical bonds in class and take a look at the crystaline nature of minerals. There will be homework tonight on these topics ("For Review" questions 1-6 on page 43 in the Earth Science and the Environment textbook). Our first lab will be later on this week (identifying minerals on Thursday and Friday this week) and a reminder that our first quiz will be next week.

Tim & Moby will help us undertsand Atomic structure today as will our friend Bill Nye but if you need more help with atomic structure look at : Chem4Kids


C - Geography 12 - Today I'll spend some time going over the answers to your work on systems, feedback, equilibrium, and thresholds. A reminder: the "Geography ID" assignment is due today (NOTE: you'll need access to the Internet and Google Earth - download Google Earth for free at http://earth.google.com/) and I will take your week 1 package then. Next we'll move on to geographic spheres within the Earth system and discuss the Lithosphere, the Atmosphere, and the Hydrosphere. Tomorrow we'll work on the Biosphere a question about spheres and move on to latitude, longitude, GPS, and GIS.