Room 611: Friday, April 23. 2021

Today's classes are:

9:15 - 11:50 C Block Legal Studies

12:30 - 3:05 B Block Human Geography

C Block Legal Studies - Welcome back...today we'll jump back in to our Introduction to Law unit, first by quickly reviewing the finishing up yesterday's activity. Then we'll examine the five functions of law along with the divisions of Public (criminal, constitutional, and administrative) and Private law (tort, family, contract, property, and labour law).

B Block Human Geography - Today we'll look at the five themes of geography and take a look at our key question Why is each point on Earth unique? We'll figure out the difference between place and region (hint think scale) and talk about toponyms, (Check out the first two names on this Mental Floss article) site and situation and look at the differences between formal, functional and vernacular regions.
I'm not a huge watch-a-"list" video kind of teacher (you know like buzzfeed's "top 10 ________ that will make you ______") but our topic for the day is "Why is each point on Earth unique?" I do like the opening for the Netflix series Sense8 as an example of the diversity of regions and for an visual explanation of why each point on earth is unique...

There are some good things to help with the concept in The Richest's "The Most Beautiful Places in the World" list video

You'll have two questions to work on for me:

GPS is most commonly used for navigation. Pilots of aircraft and ships stay on course with GPS. On land, GPS detects a vehicle’s current position, the motorist programs the desired destination, and GPS provides instructions on how to reach the destination. So, in your everyday life how do you use GPS and how does it affect your activities?
How do people shape places? How do places shape people?