Wednesday, February 16. 2011

A & D - Criminology 12 - Today we'll wrap up the work from the first Chapters (1 and 2) in the Criminology: The Core textbook with a quiz...your first quiz in the course! After we mark the first two sections together, I'll give you a few minutes to wrap up yesterday's questions from the text and then we'll try to undersatnd what a victim of crime is. For the last part of the class we'll discuss victims of crime and victimology. We'll look at the Holly Jones murder case in Toronto (2003) and try to find out what impact that would have on her family, her classmates at school, her neighbourhood, and really the entire greater Toronto metropolitan area.
CBC News InDepth: Holly Jones
Holly Jones Memorial Site
We'll have a few notes to take down on the problems of being crime victims (economic loss, system abuse, long term stress, fear, and antisocial behaviour).

B - Earth & Space Science 11 - Today we will briefly look at mining in Canada; specifically we'll focus on ores, minerals, and fossil fuels (mineral and energy resources). You'll need to work on For Review questions 3, 6, 7, 8, & 9 and For Discussion question 8 on page 120 in the Earth Science textbook in class today.
Mining Association of Canada
InfoMine - Mining in Canada
Mining Association of BC Mining in Canada
Atlas of Canada Mining Sites
Indian and Northern Affairs Canada Mining and Minerals
Canadian Minerals Yearbook
Minerals of Canada poster

C - Geography 12 - Today we'll transfer some notes into our week 3 package on the rock cycle and then we'll focus on igneous rocks and plutonic features. We'll have a diagram to complete and then there will be three questions to work on (12, 13, & 14 from page 366 in your Geosystems textbook). If time permits we will look at some sweet footage of Kilauea and try to understand the type of lava (rhyolite? andesite? peridotite? basalt?)
You can check out current conditions and watch videos (including some cool footage of the Pu'u 'O'o vent) at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory here