Day 71 - Thursday January 6. 2011

A - Introduction to Law 9/10 - Today we are back in the library for your last day to work on your Clue Us In crime scene reconstruction activity that is due this Friday. Yes that means that it is due tomorrow. When you finish this assignment you may hand it in and then begin work on your final assignment of the year which I posted on yesterday's blog entry. You are going to create a webpage on a particular area of study in forensic science, however you may not choose your topic for the forensic web page assignment until you've completed the Clue Us In project.

For the forensic science web page assignment, there are many on line web page creation sites (including this site which is kind of like a bloggers for dummies site). Try the following:
http://www.weebly.com/
http://sites.google.com/
http://www.webs.com/
http://www.yola.com/
Of course the creation of your site is really the last step in the process. Once you've chosen your topic (through me) you will need to get started working on finding information about it. Don't forget there are some fabulous print resources in the library and you must have at least one print source for this assignment.

D - Geography 12 - Today we will begin looking at biomes and biogeographic realms. Biomes are the major regional groupings of plants and animals discernible at a global scale. The distribution of these biomes is connected to climate, soil, and the physical topography of the earth. Biogeography is the study of the distribution and patterns of plants and animals throughout the biosphere.

Over the next two days, using chapter 20 of your Geosystems textbook, I would like you to describe the flora and fauna (plant and animal) characteristics of the following terrestrial biomes (land based not aquatic): Equatorial & Tropical Rain forest (ETR); Tropical Seasonal Forest and Scrub (TrSF); Tropical Savanna (TrS); Mid latitude Broad leaf & Mixed Forest (MBME); Needle leaf & Montane Forest (NF/MF); Temperate Rain forest (TeR); Mediterranean Shrub land (MSh); Mid latitude Grasslands (MGr); Deserts (DBW & DBC); and Arctic & Alpine Tundra (AAT). At the end of this there are questions 8, 12, 13, & 15 from page 693 to complete as well.

If there's time today I'll start the Planet Earth episode "Pole to Pole" while you're working away on this activity and if not then we'll have it on tomorrow. For more on the biomes covered in the Planet Earth series check out Planet Earth: Guide to the Planet

C - Law 12 - Today we'll finish our look at intentional torts. Yesterday we focused on the infliction of mental suffering along with trespass to property and defences to those intentional torts (consent, self-defence, defence of a third party, defence of property, legal authority, and necessity). Today, we'll look at nuisance, defamation of character and strict liability in civil law. This gets us to the end of the torts unit in Law 12 and next week we'll begin our look at family law. For the time left in class you have another opportunity to work on your major project (due in 12 classes...no pressure).