Thursday, February 4. 2021

Today's classes are:

9:15 - 11:50 D Block Legal Studies

12:30 - 3:05 A Block Physical Geography

D Block Legal Studies - Today we'll start by seeing what rights that you have guaranteed through various legal documents in Canada (including the Charter of Rights and Freedoms the Canadian Human Rights Act and the BC Human Rights Code a great BC Human Rights Code pdf/booklet can be found here). Next we'll identify what our fundamental freedoms are (section 2 a-d of the Charter). In partners I'll have you work on the R. v. Oakes (1986) case (discuss it in partners do not write the answers) which established the "Oakes Test" in Canadian law which allows reasonable limitations on rights and freedoms through legislation if it can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society. We'll chat about it afterwards. Then, on your own, you'll need to complete questions 1-5 on page 40 of the All About Law text

A Block Physical Geography - Today we'll start with time to work on yesterday's topic of "spheres" - the interacting systems that we'll work through this year. Remember I'd like you to interpret the relationships among the four spheres as a result of humans burning fossil fuels (where do they come from? what are they made of? how do we extract/process/use them? What happens to the carbon byproduct after combustion? How does that impact the spheres?) If you're having trouble with this consider the carbon cycle (pages 634-5 in text) or look at Earth Observatory Carbon Cycle from NASA. You could also look at Annenberg Media's "The Habitable Planet" Carbon Lab or their Chapter 8 Global Carbon Cycle from their online text or the Cool Geography Global distribution of major stores of carbon website. Lastly, we'll work on some basics of geography focusing on time zones, latitude and longitude, GPS, and the remote sensing technology of GIS.




For more on GIS check out:
ESRI What can I do with GIS?
National Geographic What is GIS?
Geolounge What is GIS
GIS Geography
VIU GIS programs
UVIC Geomatics program