Thursday October 4 2013

Today's block order F E H G

F/E Block   Crim 12

Criminology Experiment

Today we continued our discussion on violence and media. We will be starting our project where you will get a chance to conduct a criminology experiment on your fellow students. The focus will be on how violence affects children. Today we spent time researching the links between the two.  Some of the things we discussed was ethics. This is an example of a famous experiment that called into question the ethics of the researcher.

Next day we will be working on formulating a hypothesis and designing a methodology to test this hypothesis by means of an experiment.

Socials 10 

Today we started a discussion on the impact we have on our environment. We discussed several different situations where people/companies have damaged the environment. There are plenty of options to look at but we decided to look at the Oil Sands in Alberta and the proposed Northern Gateway project.
Students were to research in the library the following:
- Positive/negative impact of oil extraction/production in Northern Alberta...Oil Sands...what is it?
- Should we increase/decrease oil production
- What is the Northern Gateway Project...what are the benefits/drawbacks

Then write a one page response as to whether the Pipeline project should be allowed.

 Socials 9

Today we worked on reviewing the role the King and Parliament played in the lead up to the Civil War. Mainly worked on the action/reaction sheet.