Assignment goals:
By practicing with a model, the student will learn to select the most salient (important) points of a reading to include in a summary. The student is restricted by the number of sentences she/he can use, and will learn how to combine ideas and compose complex and compound-complex sentences.
Step one: Read "Complexion"
Step two: Write a sentence for each paragraph. Your sentences should show the main point of each paragraph.
Step three: Compare your work to Ms. Smith's work. You may use her work to help you improve yours, but do not copy.
Step four: Select the important sentences and ideas from your main point work. You will combine these to write your summary.
Assignment goals:
The student will be able to read a dialogue and write an summary of the dialogue using reported speech. The student will stay within a 5-7 sentence restriction by using conjunctions and a variety of clauses (adverb, adjective and noun). The student will write an effective summary and avoid repetition or excessive paraphrasing by staying within a 125-175 word limit.
Assignment goals: For this assignment the student is asked to:
1. Understand the difference between information and knowledge.
2. Carefully consider the brain changes that accompany learning and how best to facilitate these changes.
3. Understand the two components of learning.
4. Understand how repetition and elaboration aid memory.
5. Take the Learning Styles Survey and establish what your learning style is. Consider new study methods and strategies suggested by the Learning Styles Survey.
6. Review the methods and strategies of study and apply them to your particular learning style.
Write an essay that relates the learning biology of your brain to the study methods and strategies you use. Discuss how you might change, organize, or otherwise improve your study strategies in light of any new knowledge gained from the"Biology of Learning," "Learning Styles Survey" and other assigned resources.
2. Discover whether or not there is a solution for the system.
3. Find the exact solution using either the substitution or the elimination method when a solution exists.
3. Write an essay describing the substitution and the elimination methods and explain why algebraic methods may be better than graphical ones in some situations.
Use a computer program that trains you to quickly identify specific structural elements from the three dimensional shape of molecules. These elements include the overlapping concepts of (1) bond angle, (2) the coordination number of an atom in a covalent bond, and (3) the hybridization label on an atom.
Use this understanding to write an essay explaining the three-dimensional shape of alpha-aminoacetophenone.
Use a computer program that trains you to quickly identify specific structural elements from the three dimensional shape of molecules. These elements include the overlapping concepts of (1) bond angle, (2) the coordination number of an atom in a covalent bond, and (3) the hybridization label on an atom.
Use this understanding to write an essay explaining the three-dimensional shape of p-cyanobenzyl alcohol.
Use a computer program that trains you to quickly identify specific structural elements from the three dimensional shape of molecules. These elements include the overlapping concepts of (1) bond angle, (2) the coordination number of an atom in a covalent bond, and (3) the hybridization label on an atom.
Use this understanding to write an essay explaining the three-dimensional shape of alpha-aminoacetophenone.
Use a computer program that trains you to quickly identify specific structural elements from the three dimensional shape of molecules. These elements include the overlapping concepts of (1) bond angle, (2) the coordination number of an atom in a covalent bond, and (3) the hybridization label on an atom.
Use this understanding to write an essay explaining the three-dimensional shape of p-cyanobenzyl alcohol.
Assignment goals:
Students will describe the activities in the anode and cathode of a standard electrochemical cell and the movements of electrons and ions in an imaginative format.
1) be able to describe the common symptoms associated with Alzheimer's.
2) be able to explain what causes the typical symptoms associated with this disease by describing the effects on the nervous system and the body in general.
3) have a general understanding of normal nerve function.
4) be able to identify who is potentially at risk for this disease by explaining what scientists have learned about what may contribute to the disease. For example, is it due to age, genetics, environment?
5) describe what treatments are currently available for this disease and how they target the underlying causes.
Infrared spectroscopy provides easily obtainable and significant structural and functional group information about organic compounds. Qualitatively, IR can be used to help identify compounds based upon characteristic (diagnostic) absorptions of particular groups and structural features present or expected in a compound. Some absorptions are common to most compounds because they reflect structural features which are common to most organic compounds. Diagnostic absorptions are especially useful when viewed as characteristic "sets" and when they are separated from "common" absorptions. In this assignment, you will practice using these ideas to predict the Infrared spectrum for an organic compound, 1-methyl-1-cyclohexene.
Assignment goals:
This exercise will give you additional practice making accurate inferences in reading. After completing this assignment, you will have a better understanding of how to analyze an author's tone.
1) Read material from a number of provided web sites which make a case for the value of using animals in research.
2) Read material from a number of provided web sites which argue that using animals in reseach is unethical, immoral and even barbaric.
3) Write an essay where you use this material to take a stand on this issue. You must make your case by providing information that supports your argument and by refuting arguments made against your case.
Assignment goals:
To apply various concepts of biodiversity to pharmaceuticals, public health, and conservation. To be able to discuss the topics, how they interact, and why they are linked.
Compartments allow organisms to maintain a variety of internal environments that are very different from environments outside the organism. Maintaining such internal environments is critical to homeostasis. This assignment requires you to use your understanding of the levels of organization within the human body to describe compartments in several of the levels of organization.
You will demonstrate that you can use these terms: apical membrane, cell membrane, cytoplasm, epithelia, extracellular fluid, hydrophilic, hydrophobic, molecule, nonpolar, nuclear envelope, organelle, organ system, organ, phospholipid bilayer and secretion.
Assignment goals:
This assignment will help you sort out your understanding of diffusion and bulk flow as two separate processes, both of which influence gas exchange in the human respiratory system. You will construct a clear understanding of the structures and functions in the respiratory system as you explore various models showing how asthma causes pathological function.
Assignment goals:
Through this assignment, you are expected to address several of the major themes for Human Physiology, Biol310. ENERGY, MASS BALANCE, and FLOW (diffusion or bulk flow) are major themes in Human Physiology. Your medication research will probably not address mass balance or flow. Instead, you will explore HOMEOSTASIS, structure/function relationships as indicated by MOLECULAR INTERACTIONS and COMMUNICATION as important themes in physiology:
You will describe a human stimulus/response system.
You will identify an example of homeostasis (and that is NOT equilibrium).
You will show that you know how to find the extent and limits to our knowledge.
You will build new knowledge that you will use to make significant choices and to connect what you are learning in Physiology to the real world.
Darwin's causal theory of evolution by natural selection had far-reaching philosophical consequences, imparting no goal or progressive vector to life's history. Darwin's mechanism can only generate local adaptation to environments that change in a directionless way through time. In Darwin's system, an internal parasite that has become so degenerate that it has become little more than a bag of ingestive and reproductive tissue within the body of its host, may be just as well adapted, and may enjoy just as much prospect of future success, as the most complex mammalian carnivore.
According to Zimmer, p. 143, "Darwin didn't think all that much of extinctions. He certainly knew about the work of naturalists like Cuvier, who argued that catastrophes had punctuated life's history, each one clearing the world for a new set of creatures to take its place." Darwin wrote in The Origin of Species that "The old notion that all the inhabitants of the Earth having been swept away by catastrophes at successive periods is generally given up." Darwin was impressed by Lyell's vision of gradual change.
Scientist now supplement Darwin's vision with "evolutionary mechanisms such as punctuated equilibrium and catastrophic mass extinctions to explain sudden changes in the fossil record" (Zimmer, p. xiii). Many scientists believe we are in the throes of a mass extinction event comparable to the Permian and Cretaceous events, with more than 90 percent of species lost. Other scientists disagree that an extinction event is even taking place at all. What is the role of humans in this scenario? Is there a history of association between speciation of humans and other organisms? Do humans alter the diversity of life on earth?
The goal for this assignment is to combine Darwin's factual reality with our current knowledge of mass extinctions and to question the perception that "evolution exists to generate humans as the summit of life's purpose. By sensing the fascination of evolution's naturalistic ways, and of life's astonishingly rich diversity and history of change, with Homo sapiens as but one twig on the tree, then we become liberated from asking too much of nature, thus leaving us free to comprehend whatever fearful fascination may reside 'out there,' in full confidence that our quest for decency and meaning cannot be threatened thereby and can emerge only from our own moral consciousness." - Stephen Jay Gould, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University
At the end of this session you will know:
How fossil evidence supports evolution
How geographic distribution of species supports evolution
Coevolution of humans with microbes
Human influence on the evolution of its own species and other organisms (modern medicine, genetically modified foods, invasive species, endangered species)
Applications of scientific processes in different situations
Review student work in Mr. Bingman's and Mrs. Havlik's classes. In session 6 you will see many examples of students' misconceptions about evolution and two teachers' approaches to dealing with them. Use the notes you take throughout session 6 to summarize and evaluate Mr. Bingman's and Ms. Havlik's strategies. What did you learn about how students think and learn about evolution? Analyze, organize, generalize, and explain your answer in an essay.
In session 6 you will:
Examine how student misconceptions about evolution can be raised and addressed.
Identify examples of misconceptions students have about evolution.
Understand how assessment strategies are integrated into inquiry-based science lessons.
Despite evolution's potential for controversy, it remains an essential element of any biology course. As Theodosius Dobzhansky said in his 1973 article of the same name, in American Biology Teacher, "Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution." Based on this article and on your work thus far in the course, think about why evolution is considered the cornerstone of biology.
Through session 8 you will:
Examine how and why evolution is a cornerstone of biology
Understand legal and professional support for teaching evolution
Distinguish between science and religion as different but compatible ways of knowing
Examine religious organizations' support for evolution in science classrooms
Examine creationist arguments against evolution
Learn strategies for minimizing conflict about teaching evolution
Only part of our scientific legacy of ideas on evolution came from Darwin. What was Darwin?s discovery about evolution? What scientific ideas that were around before Darwin's discovery did he use for his work? In other words, what ideas provided Darwin with a foundation for new discoveries about evolution? Was Darwin?s discovery fact, theory, or hypothesis? In this session and those that follow, you will use the 5E's (engage, explore, explain, elaborate, evaluate), a constructivist approach to explore these questions.
At the end of this session you will know:
The nature of scientific processes
The value and limitations of scientific process
The scientist's use of terms such as fact, law, theory, and hypothesis
Change is a constant in science; as we learn more through new observations and evidence, our understanding of the world changes
The differences between the theories of evolution proposed by Darwin, Wallace, and Lamarck
How Darwin used processes of science to develop his theory of evolution
You will be able to:
Identify the kinds of evidence sufficient to reject or accept a hypothesis
Use information you gather as you complete Sessions 1 and 2 of the Online Evolution Course for Teachers along with assigned textbook readings.
Assignment goals:
Many students studying biological science, observe that it can be like
learning a new language. Writing haiku turns out to be a good way
of focusing on the words and their meaning, using them to create images or to tell very brief stories.
The goal of this assignment is to introduce you to the ancient and elegant poetic form of haiku, and to give you practice in using haiku writing as a way to learn and tell about issues in biology.
Assignment goals:
1. You will compare forces and accelerations of a body at different times during a bungee jump.
2. You will write an essay decribing force and acceleration changes for several osillations after a bungee jump.
Assignment goals:
Learning Goals:
Charles Darwin is one of the famous philosophers in history. After completing this CPR the reader will become very familiar with many aspects of Charles Darwin. The learning goals of this CPR include, gaining knowledge of Charles Darwin’s birth history, his family, books he has written, theories he developed, and how other people viewed his theories. He is considered the father of evolution. Darwins years of work opened multiple doors for further study.
Assignment goals:
The goals of this assignment are:
1) To help you learn to correctly describe a specific organic reaction mechanism using words, rather than just symbols.
2) To help you learn to use this mechanism to predict reaction products.
3) To help you develop critical reading, writing, and evaluation skills.
Read appropriate texts and explore several websites containing information about the periodic table, periodic properties, and electronic structure.
Understand that the periodic table was formulated because it was recognized that the properties of the elements change in a periodic manner. Appreciate that the reason for this periodic change is the electronic structure of the atom.
Write an essay in which you describe how the electronic structure of the atom relates to periodic properties and the periodic table.
In this assignment you will
explore the chemical structure of a drug and its relationship to
pharmacological activity.This
concept is known in pharmacy as SAR, Structural Activity Relationship.You will:
ÿRead source information about how and why drugs are
metabolized.
ÿUse the pharmaceutical manufacturer's site to
research the structure and metabolism of two NSAIDs drugs - Ansaid and Motrin.
ÿCompare the two drugs' maximum dosage and examine the
chemical reason for their differences.
ÿWrite an essay explaining explaining the effect their
chemical structures have on their half life.
Assignment goals:
For this assignment you are going to answer questions about the elements of a high-quality classmate profile and use what you learn from these questions to make changes in a second draft that other students will read, score, and comment on.
Your goal is for you to complete a second draft that shows what is special about your classmate. You want your words to show vivid details about your classmate so the reader will never forget what makes this person different and special. The best profiles will show a repeating theme, a thread of related words that weave in and out of the cloth of the classmate's life.
Assignment goals:
1) To demonstrate a knowledge of the relationship between pka and acidity.
2) To gain experience in developing resonance structures.
3) To observe the consequences of resonance effects on acidity.
This assignment was created by L. Starkey, CSU Pomona.
Assignment goals:
Write a compare/contrast paragraph.
Describe similarities and differences between two paintings.
Write a topic sentence.
Write supporting details using a clear pattern.
Use transitions.
Write a concluding sentence.
Understand two pieces of art.
Understand Art Criticism and Art History.
Able to explain emotional tone.
Able to describe space.
Able to describe details.
Assignment goals:
Students will use two short creative non-fiction stories in order to compare and contrast the experiences of two Asian-American women who are exploring what it means to be bilingual and bicultural in America.
1. Develop an understanding of how an evolutionary framework relates to infection, disease, the medical community, and us!
2. Write an essay that discusses disease from an evolutionary perspective. Make sure that your essay clearly demonstrates your comprehension of all aspects of evolution by natural selection (in your own words).
Read a short article on the many conflicting factors that affect the decision to ban a compound (DDT) that pollutes but also has very beneficial effects.
Evaluate the global social and economic issues that affect the decision to totally ban DDT.
Write a paragraph in which you develop a balanced, logical assessment of a global problem.
Read an article from the Journal of Chemical Education about organic synthesis and the history of many drugs and medicines.
Learn about the way that one drug (aspirin) was discovered and how chemists contributed to its improvement.
Learn to identify new synthetic methods necessary in drug synthesis and future drug development.
Write an essay explaining how aspirin was developed, the methods chemists use currently to develop new and better drugs, and the future of organic synthesis.
Assignment goals:
In this assignment you will learn to use the scientific method to design a simple experiment. You will learn about the importance of variable conditions and controls. You will write and test the procedure for a laboratory experiment.
Assignment goals:
In this assignment you will practice writing a conclusion for a simple laboratory manuscript. You will include references from a pre-written "Literature Cited" section. You will be graded on how well
you conform to the Pechenik criteria for a conclusion section (read Chapter 8 from "A Short Guide to Writing About Biology" - bundled with new Campbell and Reece textbooks and also available from the MRC reserve desk).
Assignment goals:
In this assignment you will practice writing a conclusion for a simple laboratory manuscript. You will include references from a pre-written "Literature Cited" section. You will be graded on how well you conform to the Pechenik criteria for a conclusion section (read Chapter 8 from "A Short Guide to Writing About Biology" - bundled with new Campbell and Reece textbooks and also available from the MRC reserve desk).
use your knowledge of general atomic structure and atomic electron structure to write a short essay correctly describing the detailed structure of atoms of copper.
• Conduct a liquid-liquid extraction transferring a solute from one solvent to another.
• Separate by the technique of liquid-liquid extraction a solute mixed between two miscible layers.
• Explore the chemical connections and solubility characteristics of a carboxylic acid in water under varying pH (acidic, basic, and neutral).
• Evaluate the direction or extent which a solute distributes itself between two immiscible layers by measuring the concentrations of the solute in each layer at equilibrium.
• Calculate a distribution, or partition coefficient, KD, which measures the ratio of the solubilities of the solute in each solvent at equilibrium in a liquid-liquid extraction.
• Use the value of KD to predict the direction or extent to which an equilibrium is preferred.
• Write an essay that discusses your observations and results from the liquid-liquid extraction experiment.
Assignment goals:
Participants will identify high, medium, and low quality postings for the group's first Discussion Board assignment, based on this prompt: This week’s readings covered a great many topics.
First, pick one idea that stands out in your mind. How might you implement it in your teaching? Find a second idea you either disagree with or don’t understand. What is wrong with it? How could you improve it to use it? Second, address bell hooks’ ideas. How do you envision a “progressive classroom?” How can you enable your students to develop critical thinking (or to think critically for themselves)?
Assignment goals:
This assignment requires that you understand how DNA is the genetic material of life. By completing this essay, you will:
1. Explain how DNA is the genetic material of life by describing the processes of transcription and translation.
2. Identify and use the following terms in your essay: DNA triplet,codon, anticodon, mRNA, rRNA, ribosomes, tRNA, amino acids, and polypeptides.
Assignment goals:
Write a narrative paragraph.
Write about a dream.
Follow correct paragraph organization.
Use transitions of time.
Use the present narrative.
Assignment goals:
In this assignment, students peer-review eachothers' first submission of a Drosophila genetics lab report in which students must identify an unknown cross.
Assignment goals:
In this assignment, students peer-review eachothers' first submission of a Drosophila genetics lab report in which students must identify an unknown cross.
Use a simple simulation program to explore a gas phase chemical reaction and the concept of dynamic equilibrium.
Use worksheets that guide you through use of the simulation to optimize your understanding of dynamic equilibrium.
Apply your observations from the simulation to another chemical reaction.
Write an essay in which you describe what happens on the molecular level in a reaction under conditions of dynamic equilibrium, specifically addressing: the interactions of molecules with one another, the simultaneous forward and reverse reactions that continue to occur at equilibrium, and the relatively constant concentrations of reactants and products once equilibrium is reached.
Explore a web site that describes the wreck of the ship "Atocha," and describes some of the silver coins and other objects found in the shipwreck.
Read a passage that describes the chemistry that caused a layer of silver sulfide to form on the silver objects, and do further reading in your textbook on redox reactions, oxidation states, electrochemical principles, and electron transfer.
Formulate a plan to electrochemically remove the layer of silver sulfide from the silver object.
Write an essay that describes how you would use electrochemistry to "clean" the silver treasures from the "Atocha."
• Use provided source material to understand the electromagnetic spectrum, and apply the knowledge that is acquired to write an essay.
• The student should be able to distinguish the electromagnetic spectrum’s link to chemistry.
• The student will type an essay of a required word length on the electromagnetic spectrum’s relationship to chemistry and the differentiation to its use in physics.
Assignment goals:
Learning Goals:
In this assignment you will learn about Epilepsy.
Visit many websites and research many websites about Epilepsy.
Find out what a seizure is and how it all affects the brain.
Assignment goals:
In this assignment you will:
1) Read from a number of web sites which suggest there is a "scientific method" and that it is useful and specific in science.
2) Read from a number of web sites which suggest that there is no specific "scientific method" that is universally applicable.
4) Read an article about infamous scientific "breakthroughs that turned out to be bad science.
5) Write a short essay where you summarize the important points made by these three groups of articles relative to science ethics and the "Scientific method".
Use a worksheet to guide you through an experiment at the Explore Science.com web site. This activity provides you with a means to understand the relationship between mass, volume, and density. You will also observe the effects of density on whether a solid will float or sink in a liquid.
Use your knowledge of the principles of density to predict the results of a "thought" experiment.
Write an essay in which you describe the observations you made about density during the activity portion of the assignment, and the results of the thought experiment.
Assignment goals:
Students will become familiar with one chemical element. They will use research skills to learn about the element, describe its principle features and reactions, and its most common uses.
Assignment goals:
Explore why, and how, dynamite has played such a large part in war and peace.
Learn the characteristics that explosives share.
Learn why nitrogen plays such a big part in explosives.
Understand the significance of ammonium nitrate in explosives.
Assignment goals:
Assignment Goals:
In this assignment you will:
" Learn about extracting medicines from plants and how these medicines are different from regular medicines
" Learn how and why researchers are using plants for medicines
" Give examples of certain medicines extracted from plants
Assignment goals:
Discuss one problem that Schlosser raises in his book, conduct some research on the issue, and offer a feasible solution. The problem you choose to write about should relate to your major in some way.
Assignment goals:
In this assignment, students will demonstrate their understanding of reduction-oxidation (redox) reactions, including how to recognize a redox reaction, providing pertinent definitions, and balancing a typical redox reaction.
Assignment goals:
The main goal of this assignment is to be able to concisely and accurately describe, using appropriate terminology, how to quantitatively prepare a common solution.
Assignment goals:
The goals of this assignment are to perform standard thermodynamic calculations for the water-gas shift reaction, to use the results of the calculations for pertinent predictions, and to learn about some uses for the products of the reaction.
read a "letter" describing a real-world chemical problem involving the preparation of an inorganic compound from available natural mineral resources,
explore several websites that describe the chemical composition of minerals,
use your knowledge of aqueous chemical reactions to devise a practical method for the preparation of the desired compound from the given starting materials.
Assignment goals:
This assignment, which was adapted by A. Russell (UCLA, CPR Team) from an assignment by L. Starkey (CSU Pomona), is designed to introduce you to the Calibrated Peer Review Program by having you use the program in a workshop as a student does in a class. Participating in an assignment is the best way to become familiar with both the components and grading system of CPR. In order to complete the assignment in a short workshop, you will find you need to complete only two meaningful calibration essays. In addition, the calibration questions in this simple assignment focus on a variety of questioning strategies thatyou can use to probe understanding of a topic and student writing skills when you begin to author assignments.
Assignment goals:
In this assignment you will understand the structure of a human hair, understand how hair absorbs dye, and learn the proper care for newly colored hair.
Learn about phase diagrams and the submicroscopic view of the various phases of matter by exploring a phase diagram animation program for a single substance.
Write an essay in which you:
Identify the parts of a phase diagram that correspond to the solid, liquid and gas phases.
Recognize how molecules behave in each of the three states.
Describe on the submicroscopic level how changes in temperature and pressure affect the motion and arrangement of the particles.
Understand and explain that the phase boundary lines represent the temperatures and pressures where a substance changes state.
Describe what happens on the submicroscopic level when a substance changes state.
Assignment goals:
Students will demonstrate their understanding of the effects of overpopulation on the environment and then give an informed opinion on whether the decision to control population growth should be enforced by governments or done on a voluntary basis.
Assignment goals:
The Introduction to your Inquiry Paper:
The introduction sets the scene for your report, so it should start with a catch introduction, a hook to get the readers’ attention. In addition, it should be topic-related and introduce the topic to the readers.
The introduction section includes discussions about the purpose of this topic. What is the problem to be solved? Why is this a problem? To whom is it a problem?
This introduction includes your hypothesis, problem or engineering goals, and an explanation of the cause/effect relationship you are proposing will occur. This should include information that you learned from your research readings. In addition, explain what prompted your research, and what you hoped to achieve.
The introduction-section sets the stage with the current research about this topic, what others already know about it, and why it is an important topic for further scientific research. A strong introduction includes how this topic is related to science and why it is an important topic to study.
Appropriate APA citations are used throughout the introduction. You may have as many reference as you need, but you MUST have at least 5 references, which include 2 scientific journal articles, one book, and 2 websites that are not Wikipedia or shall they be .com’s. You may use any number of references beyond these initial 5.
Assignment goals:
The Introduction to your Inquiry Paper:
The introduction sets the scene for your report, so it should start with a catch introduction, a hook to get the readers’ attention. In addition, it should be topic-related and introduce the topic to the readers.
The introduction section includes discussions about the purpose of this topic. What is the problem to be solved? Why is this a problem? To whom is it a problem?
This introduction includes your hypothesis, problem or engineering goals, and an explanation of the cause/effect relationship you are proposing will occur. This should include information that you learned from your research readings. In addition, explain what prompted your research, and what you hoped to achieve.
The introduction-section sets the stage with the current research about this topic, what others already know about it, and why it is an important topic for further scientific research. A strong introduction includes how this topic is related to science and why it is an important topic to study.
Appropriate APA citations are used throughout the introduction. You may have as many reference as you need, but you MUST have at least 5 references, which include 2 scientific journal articles, one book, and 2 websites that are not Wikipedia or shall they be .com’s. You may use any number of references beyond these initial 5.
Assignment goals:
In this assignment you will learn to recognize differences in mathematical models for the behavior of gases. In particular, you will:
Interpret Excel spreadsheets and graphs of data.
Recognize that the treatment of molecular volume and intermolecular forces is the primary difference between the ideal gas law and the van der Waals equation.
Understand the difference between models which approximate the behavior of gases (the ideal gas law and the van der Waals equation) and those that are exact fits of experimental data (the virial expansion).
Increase your knowledge and understanding of phase diagrams and the molecular properties of the various phases of matter through exploration of a single substance phase diagram animation program.
Write an essay in which you:
Identify the regions on a phase diagram that correspond to the solid, liquid and gas phases.
Recognize the differences between the behavior of the particles in each of the three states.
Describe on the particle level how changes in temperature and pressure affect the motion and arrangement of the particles.
Understand and verbalize that the phase boundary lines represent the temperature and pressure conditions at which a phase change between two states occurs.
Describe what happens on the particle level when a substance changes state.
Assignment goals:
This assignment will serve as an introduction to using Calibrated Peer Review (CPR) as a student. Participating in an assignment is the best way to become familiar with both the components and grading system of CPR.
In order to get thru it completely and within the timeframe of this workshop, you will only be required to attempt TWO of the THREE calibrations.
In this assignment you (as the student) will:
Increase your knowledge and understanding of phase diagrams and the molecular properties of the various phases of matter through exploration of a single substance phase diagram animation program.
Write an essay in which you:
Identify the regions on a phase diagram that correspond to the solid, liquid and gas phases.
Recognize the differences between the behavior of the particles in each of the three states.
Describe on the particle level how changes in temperature and pressure affect the motion and arrangement of the particles.
Understand and verbalize that the phase boundary lines represent the temperature and pressure conditions at which a phase change between two states occurs.
Describe what happens on the particle level when a substance changes state.
1.To get peer
feedback on a draft of your lab report introduction for the "Diffusion
across a selectively permeable membrane" experiment.This feedback should help you write a better
final draft (graded by TA).
2.To see and
practice evaluating good, mediocre and poor examples of lab report
introductions.
3.To review your
peers' introductions ... these reviews will be graded by your TA so as to give
you feedback on the quality of your reviews.Learning how to critique your peers' written work will help you more
effectively critique your own.
4.To practice
accurately assessing your own written work.
In this assignment you will:
1. Read an article, "The Cellular Chamber of Doom" from Scientific American, which describes scientific discoveries about the importance of proteasomes.
2. Learn what proteasomes are, and how they can be both helpful and harmful.
3. Write an essay in which you explain what you learned from the article about the importance of proteasomes.
1. Read an article, "The First Human Cloned Embryo" from Scientific American, which describes the experiments that produced cloned human early-stage embryos.
2. Learn about the methods and purposes of therapeutic cloning.
3. Write an essay in which you explain what you learned from the article about therapeutic cloning.
In this assignment you will:
1. Read an article which describes scientific discoveries about using viruses in cancer therapy.
2. Learn what adenoviruses are, and how they can be both helpful and harmful.
3. Write an essay in which you explain what you learned from the article about viruses and virotherapy.
Assignment goals:
The purpose of this assignment is to write an essay that compares and contrasts the two different types of intelligence--the traditional intelligence (IQ) and "emotional intelligence" (EQ). Using information from the text, lectures, and the web, your essay should represent your “very best thoughts, ideas, and insights” about intelligence, emotions, and emotional intelligence.
To get your thoughts flowing, you will take one of each of type of test on-line. In addition to getting the feedback provided by the scores, you should gain more insight into how such tests are constructed and, therefore, how they might be interpreted.
IMPORTANT NOTES: You will not be asked to report or discuss your scores, though if you want to, you may. The results of these tests SHOULD NOT BE INTERPRETED TOO STRONGLY. This will be most true for the intelligence test, particularly if English in not your first language, in which case your score will probably be too low.
Assignment goals:
In this assignment, you will:
Visit various web sites that provide different information on the noble gases.
Consider the different aspects of the elements in group 18, including their properties, names, symbols, etc.
Write an essay displaying your knowledge of the noble gases.
Visit various web sites that provide different information on the noble gases.
Consider the different aspects of the elements in group 18, including their properties, names, symbols, etc.
Write an essay displaying your knowledge of the noble gases.
Explore Excel spreadsheets and graphs containing real reaction data for Ozone (O3) and methylene chloride (CH3Cl).
Use specific examples to demonstrate understanding of reaction rate, rate constants, and reaction order. Understand the effects of changes in initial concentration and temperature on reaction rate.
Write an essay describing the effect of changing initial conditions on reaction rates.
Assignment goals:
The goal of this assignment is to introduce students to the philosophy behind higher education AND to the process of Calibrated Peer Review. Students are to focus more on "good writing" than on the content, though reading through the source material will be critical to receiving a good mark.
In particular, students need to write an essay that has proper construction as described in the resources given in this document.
Please note that although good "html coding skills" are not needed, there is ONE symbol you must use. At the end of each paragraph, place a "greater than sign", a letter "P", and a "less than sign".
This looks like: . This is "web code" for a paragraph break. See this link for more information
about paragraph breaks.
As you drove and hiked in the Mojave Desert, you passed through different natural communities. You first drove by (1) a Creosote Shrub community (where we stood and looked at the lava flow) followed by (2) a Joshua Tree Forest (after Kelso Depot). As you ascended toward Mid-Hills campground, you passed by (3) Pinyon Pine and Desert Juniper. On the hike, you first saw (4) Cholla Cactus and then most of you saw (5) a Barrel Cactus community. We did not ascend as far as the Pinyon Pine and Desert Juniper community along the Mid-hills to Hole in the Wall trail.
Did you encounter your organism or another organism that shared the same food chain or niche through direct interaction with your organism in any of these communities? Based on your research, what do you suppose you would need to do in order to find these organisms in the Mojave communities? Would you ever expect to find an organism in all of these communities? Explain the evidence that supports these inferences.
Assignment goals:
The student will become familiar with the Calibrated Peer Review website and feel comfortable using the step-by-step process.
The student will understand the difference between an introductory anecdote and the main body of an article. The student will be able to state the main points of the article "Living with Diabetes," and be able to support each of these points with several examples. The student will learn what a summary should contain. The student will be eager to do the next CPR assignment.
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Student will review vocabulary from "Don't Be Sore" by reviewing summaries of this reading. Student will also review the rules for proper citation. Students will review how to use a fact and how to use an opinion in a written summary. Student will also practice sentence combining with adverbial and relative clauses.
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This activity will help you better understand how readers make inferences as they read to discover the meaning of a text. The questions in this assignment are designed to lead you to make accurate inferences. Writing about your inferences and evaluating inferences others make can also help you make more accurate inferences.
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Assignment Goals:
In this assignment you will:
• Learn about Marfan Syndrome and what it is
• Learn the symptoms of Marfan Syndrome
• Learn the causes and effects of Marfan Syndrome
• Learn how Marfan Syndrome is diagnosed and what treatments are available for this disease.
1. Develop an understanding of how a mutation in a single gene can lead to a variety of symptoms and still be considered a single disorder.
2. Write an essay that discusses Marfan Syndrome on several biological levels. Make sure that your essay clearly demonstrates your comprehension of all aspects of Marfan syndrome(from molecular up to patient and from cause to treatment and all the levels in between).
• Recite a poem which identifies the chemical and physical properties unique to a specific element.
• Use a flowchart to classify matter into four basic categories.
• Reinforce your understanding of the relationship between matter and its transformations by writing an essay in which you explain the way matter is characterized or recognized in terms of its properties.
• Use print and electronic media within the chemical literature to assist with the analysis and differentiation of chemical and physical properties of matter.
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Learning Goals:
In this assignment you will:
• Learn of a special methylmalonic acidemia case and the trial that it involved.
• Learn about methylmalonic acidemia and how it is similar to ethylene glycol poisoning.
• Learn about the symptoms of methylmalonic academia.
While developing his theory of evolution by natural selection, Darwin was unaware of the molecular basis for evolutionary change and inheritance. Around the same time that Darwin was making his observations that led to his publication, The Origin of Species, the monk, Gregor Mendel, was performing experiments with garden peas that dramatically influenced the field of biology. Mendel's interpretation of his experimental results served as the foundation for the discipline known as genetics. Genetics is the discipline of biology concerned with the study of heredity and variation.
Our understanding of genetics in higher organisms such as humans has advanced considerably since Mendel's work. Mendel noted that alternative forms of a gene, what we now call alleles, are responsible for variations in inherited characters. Mendel proposed that certain alleles, called dominant alleles, are always expressed in the appearance of an organism and that the expression of other alleles, called recessive alleles, was sometimes hidden or masked. The appearance of a trait is sometimes referred to as the phenotype or an organism while the genetic make-up is the organism's genotype. Typically, an organism inherits two alleles for each gene, one from its mother and one from its father. Using modern genetic terminology, we say that an organism that contains a pair of the same alleles is homozygous for that trait while an organism that contains two different alleles is heterozygous.
Now that we know about linked genes, lethal genes, and sex-linked alleles, it has become necessary to modify Mendel's Model. This writing assignment asks you to describe which aspects of Mendel's Model accurately represent how traits are inherited and which aspects should be modified to account for some of the data from the FlyLab simulation.
study text and web-based resources on bonding and molecular structure.
use your knowledge of covalent bonding and simple molecular construction to write an essay correctly describing the bonding and polarity characteristics of water, H2O.
Assignment goals: Project Learning Outcomes: Upon successful completion of this motor development autobiography, you will
demonstrate comprehension of motor development (e.g., its definition (as change in movement over the lifespan) by describing changes in your own reflexes, motor milestones, fundamental motor skills, physical growth, ADLs);
illustrate understanding of one’s own motor development from the perspective of the three developmental questions (i.e., what is my motor behavior like now and why? What was my motor behavior like in the past and why? What will my motor behavior be like in the future and why?);
describe how various motor development action systems have changed in your own life experience using quantitative and qualitative measures (e.g., developmental sequences, performance scores; sports skills, ADLs).
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Use The Nature Conservancy's carbon footprint calculator to measure your impact on our climate. Our carbon footprint calculator estimates how many tons of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases your choices create each year. Analyze 5 factors affecting ecological footprint calculations in the simulation. Compare your carbon footprint to the national and world averages. Explain which factors have the biggest effect on your carbon footprint. Write about the process of using the carbon footprint calculator to identify three activities you could do to reduce your emissions of green house gases. Identify one pro and one con of making each of the changes you could implement. What would the short term effect of these changes have on your life? What would the long term effect of these changes have on the environment? Learn from the climate change quiz. What fact about climate change surprised you the most, and why?
• Use a concept map (a diagrammatic road map) to guide you through a systematic method of nomenclature for simple inorganic compounds.
• Name and write chemical formulas for binary covalent compounds, simple ionic compounds and acids, and derive quantitative information from the formula.
• Reinforce your understanding of the systematic method of nomenclature by writing an essay in which you explain the way in which fairly simple inorganic compounds derive their name.
Analyze data from an lab experiment on nucleophilic substitution reactions.
Determine the effect of variables on the type of substitution mechanism involved (SN1 vs. SN2), and the rate of reaction. These variables include R group, leaving group, concentration and identity of the nucleophile, solvent polarity, and temperature.
Write an essay explaining the effect of these variables on the observed reactions.
Be able to predict the outcome of other substitution reactions by comparison to these results.
Upon completing this mini-project, the student will describe implications for motor behavior changes across the lifespan by
- observing and classifying a variety of motor skills and physical activities of an older adult from a developmental perspective;
- observing the physical stature, posture, and fitness levels associated with the typical physical and daily activities of an older adult from a developmental perspective;
- hypothesizing the impact of task demands and living environments as they interact as constraints on the movement of an older adult; and
- reflectively self-evaluating their performance on the assignment.
read an mock news article about the reactivity of a newly synthesized compound,
write a critique of the article in which you:
predict the general reactivity of functional groups,
demonstrate understanding of the details of particular reactions of functional groups,
recognize errors in descriptions of the products expected from specific reactions, and predict the correct outcome.
These abilities are a valuable asset in understanding and using organic chemistry. Completion of this exercise will provide practice employing those skills.
1) practice recording the key findings from a patient evaluation in a clinical note,
2) practice generating and recording differential diagnoses and an evaluation plan based on the clinical encounter, and
3) use a scoring key to critically review calibrated (faculty-written) clinical notes, the clinical notes other students have written, and your own clinical note.
1) practice recording the key findings from a patient evaluation in a clinical note,
2) practice generating and recording differential diagnoses and an evaluation plan based on the clinical encounter, and
3) use a scoring key to critically review calibrated (faculty-written) clinical notes, the clinical notes other students have written, and your own clinical note.
1) practice recording the key findings from a patient evaluation in a clinical note,
2) practice generating and recording differential diagnoses and an evaluation plan based on the clinical encounter, and
3) use a scoring key to critically review calibrated (faculty-written) clinical notes, the clinical notes other students have written, and your own clinical note.
Assignment goals:
After this assignment, you should be able to:
1. Submit a written assignment on the CPR system.
2. Calibrate and review assignments on the CPR system.
3. Identify three or more unifying themes in biology.
- Explore a computer simulation of the absorption and emission process in the model of a hydrogen atom.
- Observe what happens to the electron of the hydrogen atom by following the absorption of different photon energies and record all observed emission wavelengths.
- Write a short essay describing the absorption and emission process in the H-atom using your recorded results and your textbook as a reference.
• Use provided web sites to understand and comprehend the greenhouse effect, and apply the knowledge that is acquired.
• The student will type an essay portraying their knowledge of the greenhouse effect.
• The student should be able to understand the effect of different amounts of gasses on emitted photons on the temperature of the environment by the end of this assignment.
• Use the provided sources to acquire the knowledge of limiting and excess reactants.
• The student should be able to calculate the amounts of each reactant required and which is the limiting and which is the excess.
• The student will write an essay describing what they know about limiting and excess reactants, give examples, and how to find out which one is which.
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In this assignment you will learn to understand the importance of mutations in animals.
You will also learn how to for natural selection works.
- Preview the PhET computer simulation about different acidic and basic solutions.
- Observe and manipulate the pH concentrations of different liquids.
- Write an essay explaining the differences in pH levels of acidic and basic solutions and the relevance of hydronium and hydroxide concentrations in the solution.
Assignment goals:
In this assignment you will use a pHET simulation to:
-View the relations of balloons and buoyancy while altering pressure, temperature, and volume.
- View the difference between 3 types of balloons (hot air balloon, rigid hollow sphere, and helium balloon) and use tools to help record all characteristics of these three balloons while altering the variables.
- Write an essay answering the guiding questions.
Note- This assignment was created by Andrea Chord, a senior at Newcastle High School, class of 2010.
Read a short article about the chemistry of vision to gain an understanding of the key photochemical reactions and principles that make vision possible.
Write a summary of the article, explaining the important concepts and identifying the types of photochemical reactions present in this process.
Read a short article about the chemistry of photochromic sunglasses to gain an understanding of the photochemical reactions that take place in these glasses.
Write a summary of the article, explaining the important concepts and identifying the type of photochemical reactions present in the sunglasses.
Read a short article about the photochemical treatment of neonatal jaundice. You will be introduced to a debate within the medical literature about the best wavelength of light to treat phototherapy.
Write an essay in which you will propose a research experiment that might help resolve these debates. You will need to think analytically and to write convincing arguments for your proposed research.
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Because Burmese pythons undergo a fully reversible increase in ventricular mass in the two days after a meal, investigators suggest that pythons provide an attractive model for investigating the
mechanisms that lead to cardiac ventricular growth. A report shows python heart hypertrophy (ventricles become larger) during digestion, compared with pre- and post-digestion levels, yet the mechanisms responsible for triggering cardiac hypertrophy are still a mystery. Briefly explain how cell-to-cell communication could coordinate digestive function with cardiac hypertrophy in a python.
Assignment goals:
To learn the physiology behind learning, identify your own personal learning style, and learn new tools for learning more effectively and efficiently.
Design a simple experiment to determine the pKa of an unknown organic acid.
Use the concepts of equilibrium, dissociation of a weak acid, pH and pKa.
Demonstrate familiarity with the techniques of selection and use of a visual pH indicator, determination of the pH of a solution, and titration procedures.
Write a description of the experiment and the expected results.
Assignment goals:
In completing this assignment, cadets will:
(a) enhance their understanding of the format of an ORORD
(b) delve into the finer points of an OPORD
(c) recognize how comprehensible their OPORDs are to peers
(d) discover the strengths and weaknesses of their peers
(d) learn to quickly and more effectively break down an OPORD
Read a short article about the chemistry of polymer degradation to gain an understanding of the key photochemical reactions and principles responsible for polymer photodegradation.
Write a paragraph in which you apply your knowledge by choosing the appropriate polymer for a given situation.
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In this assignment you will read an article/(s) describing the importance of water to the human body. You will read and analyze the process of desalination and then write an essay on the process of desalination.
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In this assignment you will describe the process of transduction. Specifically, you will identify the similarities and differences between specialized and generalized transduction.
Assignment goals: In this assignment, you will:
• Use provided web sites to understand and comprehend the states of matter, and apply the knowledge that is acquired.
• The student should be able to distinguish between the four states of matter.
• The student will type an essay portraying their knowledge of the states of matter, and properties of each.
Use a computer program that trains you to identify common structural abbreviations and implied elements in textbook drawings of organic molecules. These elements include the (1) omission of hydrogen atoms connected to carbon atoms, (2) the use of an angle to represent a carbon atom, (3) the difference between the implied geometry and the planar arrangement of the atoms on the paper, and (4) the use of specific abbreviations to indicate atom connectivity and bonding.
Use this understanding to write an essay comparing the three-dimensional shape of two molecules.
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The conventions for writing summaries for non-fiction and fiction are a little different. In this lesson, you will read an excerpt from the novel/memoir Kaffir Boy in America by Mark Mathabane and summarize it. You will realize that in summarizing narrative, a student should not re-tell the story. Instead, he/she should identify the main points and use details to support these choices.
Assignment goals:
This activity will help you gain skills in writing a summary and in distinguishing between main ideas and supporting details. These skills are useful in
checking your understanding of material you have read.
writing reports for your college classes.
taking essay exams.
being able to accurately explain other people's ideas, something your college instructors will expect you to do.
Read a short article about the photochemistry of suntanning and sunburns. You will learn about a photocycloaddition reaction that has direct relevance to your life.
Write a summary of the article, explaining and identifying the photochemical reaction present in suntanning, and identifying the dangers of suntanning.
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The goal of this assignment is to familiarize you with the concepts of sustainable agriculture, to relate agriculture to plant nutrition, and to provide you with an opportunity to work on writing, and peer reviewing skills.
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The goals of this assignment are (1) to critically evaluate two different syntheses and explain why one will not work as shown and (2) to consider structural features of known NSAIDs to evaluate whether a proposed compound is likely to function as an NSAID.
Assignment goals:
The goals of this assignment are:
(1) to increase student understanding of the mechanism of electrophilic aromatic substitution (EAS), (2) to increase student understanding of the different directing influences of substituents, (3) to increase student ability to utilize EAS and other reactions in syntheses, and (4) to improve student ability to describe syntheses with words rather than just structures.
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The goal of this assignment is to encourage you to "take away" and continue to use something you learned about psychology. Think back to the most interesting or useful thing that you learned this semester and write an essay about how you have, or how you could, apply it to your life. Think of it as, "this is what I'll be most like to remember 5 or more years from now."
Black holes are among the most fantastic objects in the known universe. These objects are quite mysterious. In this project you will explain how a Black hole is born. Go through the steps from starting with a regular star and ending with the Black hole. Also the anatomy of a Black hole, and how the Black hole was discovered.
You will also demonstrate knowledge of how Einstein’s Theory of Relativity applies to Black holes.
Assignment goals:
In this assignment you will:
• Name which ions are responsible for acidity and basicity
• Tell some of the common properties of acids and bases
• Describe the three main theories defining acids and bases
• Explain the pH scale
Assignment goals:
In completing this assignment, students will:
1) Explore a website describing the effects of exercise on blood pH.
2) Learn about acid-base equilibria and equilibrium constants.
3) Gain an understanding of how buffers work.
4) Learn about Le Châtelier's Principle with regard to the direction of equilibrium shifts.
5) Demonstrate their understanding by writing about how the body uses buffers to maintain blood pH.
Watch a video lecture given by one of the scientists who discovered the "bucky ball," C60, and other fullerenes.
Explore a web site containing a wealth of information about the fullerenes.
Understand the history of the discovery of the fullerenes and how different methods for characterizing the structure of compounds gave specific insight into their structure.
Write an essay in which you describe how C60 was discovered and identified.
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The goals of this assignment are to:
1) Take a survey that may provide you with helpful feedback about your approach to college at a time when most of you are starting your college "career";
2) Write about your survey results in a clear and straightforward manner for an audience of fellow students;
3) Learn the Calibrated Peer Review system while doing a non-threatening assignment;
4) Write a short expository essay in partial fulfillment of a General Education course requirement; and to
5) Learn basic HTML formatting for this and the other CPR assignments.
NOTE: It may be useful to print out the entire assignment instructions, to be able to refer to them more easily while working on it.
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In this assignment, you will:
Study printed and web-based resources on the characteristics and molecular structure of water.
Write and essay that describes the physical and chemical characteristics of water as well as its molecular structure.
Complete an on-line exploration about the primary and secondary structure of peptides, which includes the use of structural models to assist visualization.
Learn to recognize whether a specific characteristic of a peptide is associated with the primary or the secondary structure.
Choose which structural models best illustrate a particular aspect of peptide structure, and write an essay explaining and justifying your choice.
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In this assignment you will:
• Read about the three major chemical bonds.
• Learn about chemical bonds.
• Write an essay that describes three major chemical bonds.
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In writing this assignment you will:
(a) describe the process of titrating of a solution and explain the significance of the equivalence point;
(b) outline the role of an indicator in a titration;
(c) explain the meaning of standardization and the preparation of a standard solution;
(d) describe the steps to be followed for the titration of HCl with an NaOH solution;
(e) indicate the data you need to collect and summarize the calculations you need to do to find the molar concentration of a titrated solution.
Note- This assignment was created by Marina Canepa at Miami University in Ohio.
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The goal of this assignment is to learn about classical and operant conditioning concepts by writing about how to train an animal to engage in desired behaviors upon command.
Suggestion: Because the instructions for this assignment are somewhat involved, you should print them and refer to them as you are working.
Complete an on-line exploration about the types of strain in cycloalkanes, which includes the use of structural models to assist visualization.
Gain an understanding of the influences that angle strain and torsional strain have on the conformation of a cycloalkane molecule.
Use the information about the importance of the different types of strain to determine the relative order of stability of four cyclohexane conformations, and write an essay explaining and justifying your choice.
- Explore a computer simulation of the absorption and emission process in the Bohr model of a hydrogen atom.
- Observe what happens to the electron of the hydrogen atom by following the absorption of different photon energies and record all observed emission wavelengths.
- Write a short essay describing the absorption and emission process in the H-atom using your recorded results.
Note- This assignment was created by Professor Larry Margerum and Maren Gulsrud at the University of San Francisco.
Use an interactive computer program that allows you to explore the relationship between the extent of reaction and the equilibrium constant (Keq).
Understand that at equilibrium neither the reactants nor the products will have a zero concentration. Also understand that the concentrations of all reactants and products are NOT equal at equilibrium.
Write an essay in which you demonstrate an understanding of how the equilibrium constant (Keq) is associated with the extent of a reaction. For example, you should recognize that a reaction that is associated with an equilibrium constant equal to 1 x 10-12 will produce very few products.
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This assignment is designed to make you think about the use of both non-violence and violence as justifiable ways of changing inequities in government practices or beliefs.
This is a matching assignment. Find a biology research paper and then match some data for one experiment to the best graph for representing that kind of data. Write a short paper to explain why that graph is the best way to present data that supports a conclusion. When finished you will have done the following:
Describe one carefully controlled experiment from a biological research publication.
Select an experimental investigation and not an observational study.
Identify independent and dependent variables for an investigation.
Identify whether data is quantitative or categorical.
Understand that histograms, scatterplots, and time course graphs present quantitative variables whereas bar charts, dot plots, and side-by-side graphs are used for independent variables that are categorical.
Use a citation with a format appropriate for publication in a scientific research paper.
The goal for this assignment is to build an appreciation of the marvelous tailoring of evolution that makes it possible for us to extract complex information from sensory input. You will apply general principles that are true for all the senses to explore in detail the mismatch between external reality and the filtered and distorted perceptions that are provided by sensory processing of information.
Sensory input, the information flow into the brain, is alike for all the sensory systems including taste, touch, vision, hearing, smell, pain, equilibrium, blood pressure, chemoreception, and proprioception. In this activity, you will investigate in detail one example showing how the sensory nervous system both dissects and integrates information before sending that information to the brain. By dividing a sensory field into small areas that can be monitored individually, sensory neurons extract detailed information that is then integrated by combining features within and between receptive fields to determine the relationships between stimuli.
One of the general principles that you will apply is the concept that nerve cell depolarization opens calcium channels, and then the influx of calcium triggers exocytosis of synaptic vesicles and neurotransmitter release. Nerve cell hyperpolarization makes it less likely that calcium channels will open so that there will be less of a chance for calcium to signal neurotransmitter release.
Explore several on-line resources on the science behind color.
Learn about the relationship between the wavelength of light and its visible color. Understand how the color wheel and the related concept of complementary colors explain why objects appear to have particular colors. Understand how the absorption, reflection, and transmission of light is related to the observed color of objects.
Explain in a short essay why colored objects appear the way they do.
Assignment goals:
1. To understand the concepts of nuclear fission and of chain reaction, and to know something about the products of nuclear fission.
2. To be able to describe nuclear fission and chain reactions in clear and simple language.
3. To be able to put technical language into your own words.
Assignment goals:
In this assignment you will:
1) Read a short article, "What's hiding in transgenic foods?" from Chemical & Engineering News which discusses the difficulty in predicting allergenic properties of genetically engineered foods.
2) Learn about the ongoing discussions related to food allergies.
3) Write a paragraph in which you explain the situation and share your own opinion on the article's topic.
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Students will write a "portrait" of John Steinbeck based upon the assigned information. The focus of the portrait is to reveal the nature of the author by citing biographical details and appropriate quotes from his work.
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In this assignment you will practice writing an introduction for a simple laboratory manuscript. You will include references from a pre-written "Literature Cited" section. You will be graded on how well you conform to the Pechenik criteria for an introduction section (read Chapter 8 from "A Short Guide to Writing About Biology" - bundled with new Campbell and Reece textbooks and also available from the MRC reserve desk).
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The goal of this assignment is to demonstrate that you have organized and integrated the results of a minimal search of the psychological literature on a question that you have developed. You will base it on the annotated bibliography that you have already developed. Your task in this assignment is to write a coherent narrative about your research question, based on those bibliographic sources.
Assignment goals:
This activity requires you to apply the following concepts in thinking about the consequences of issues such as social isolation, exam stress, and child abuse:
Hormones interact with their targets.
In many endocrine reflex pathways, the hormones of the pathway act as negative feedback signals.
The hormones of the anterior pituitary are controlled by hormones from the hypothalamus.
Hormones interact with their targets. An altered target response can be the result of either increased hormone levels or a change in target responsiveness.
Pathologies can correlate with hypersecretion or hyposecretion of hormones, or with hyper- or hypo- responsiveness to hormones.
This goal will be achieved by reading primary research abstracts. Study the abstracts to extract commonalities, to make recommendations, and to identify unresolved questions.
Assignment goals:
The goals or outcomes of this infant motor development autobiography are to
• Demonstrate your comprehension of the major elements of infant motor development (e.g., its definition as change in movement over the early childhood portion of the lifespan, the causes underlying those changes, course of change in reflexes, postural reactions, motor milestones, fundamental motor skills, physical growth) by using your own infancy and childhood as examples.
• Illustrate using your own infant and early movement experiences how well you understand and can critically think about the major concepts associated with the developmental perspective.
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