1. College Biology Intro Presentation

2. Website Portal/Computer Etiquette

3. Mars Society Movie

4. Chapter 1-Power Point Presentation

Campbell CD

5. Pale Blue Dot

a. SETI @Home-Sagan

b. Pale Blue Dot

c. Reflections on a Mote of Dust

d. Mars Express Looks Back

e. Powers of Ten

6. Scientific Method

7. 2e-Scientific Method Presentation

Responsible Thinking

a. Thinking Scientifically

b. The Scientific Method Tutorial

1. Professor Twinklebein

2. Scientific Approach and Peer Review

c. What is Life?

d. Defining Life?

8. Terra Firma-Video

9. Blues For a Red Planet-Video

10. What is Life?

11. Defining Life?

Reading your text is the basis of all instruction in College Biology. You must SQ4R your text before the classroom activities and web site links are used. The text represents the baseline data necessary for your understanding. The reading must be done, no exceptions. Your instructor expects it to be done and will take it for granted that you have completed this aspect of the learning process each time a new section is begun. Failing to meet this expectation will clearly affect your grade in this course.

1.Click Here for The McGraw Hill Learning System Tutorial for College Biology

2. Scientific Methods from Kimball

3. Scientific Papers from Kimball

4. Copy and paste the Objectives for Test # 1 into your Word processing program. These are your directives in preparing for the first examination. Answer these Objectives as you read your Chapter 1 in the text and use the links presented to you here. SQ4R your textbook-Chapter 1. Ask questions in class about any of the Objectives that you could not answer. You must take responsibility for being as prepared for the exam as you can possibly be. I will help where I can, but I can't do much if I don't know what your problems are. You must study until you are capable of determining if you need help.

Ask questions in class about any of the Objectives that you could not answer. You must take responsibility for being as prepared for the exam as you can possibly be. I will help where I can, but I can't do much if I don't know what your problems are. You must study until you are capable of determining if you need help. Get a study group together !

Being able to ask questions and recite with other students can make all of the difference in your mastery of the material. A group that can meet face-to-face is the best situation. Get your Study Group members together so that on the night before the night before the exam you RECITE orally, or write, the answers to the objectives with the group not using your notes. This will be the final confirmation that you know the material and are ready to take the examination. If you are still not ready for the exam, at least you have one more day to prepare.

1. Use the links below and read about the nature of resposible thinking:

* Responsible Thinking vs. Critical Thinking

* The nature of truth

* Common causes of false beliefs

* Telling truth vs. seeking truth

2. Use the links below and read about Science and its methods:

Science

* What's wrong with science

* Experiments

* Controls

* Blinding

* Double blinding

* Statistical significance

* Experimental report

* Replication

3. Go to Kimball's Pages and read the Scientific Method and Scientific Papers

4. Click on Scientific Method: Observation, Data, Hypothesis, Experimental Design and Testing. Do the interesting exercise beginning with Galileo and ending with life on Mars.

5. Professor Blamire of Brooklyn College in New York has created an e-text book that he uses to teach a Core Biology Course. The book has a few typing errors, but is an excelent resource to supplement your text. Read the following sections to help reinforce your understanding of Chapter 1:

Signs of Life

* What are we looking for?

* Introduction

* Response to stimuli

* Growth and Reproduction

* Heredity

* Adaptation

* Homeostasis

* Utilization of energy

* Complexity

6. There is a reading from Michael Gross' book Life on the Edge that I want you to do. Gross is an exceptional writer, and scientist, who has concisely described life and its components. This is extremely important for you to understand. Read it carefully.

Click on Michael Gross . This will get you to his homepage where you will see the covers of his three books. Click on the cover of Life on the Edge . This will take you to a page that examines the components of the book. Click on the Table of Contents text link. Under the Table of Contents heading you will see Chapter number 1 has four sections. Click on the Introduction:Life and Its Limits. Read the the entire page which includes the other sections listed under the Introduction .

Newfound Microbe Raises Upper Temperature Limit for Life

1. Life: From the Ground Up

2. The Tribbles Mission

1. Mars Resources

2. National Geographic-A Mars Never Dreamed Of

3. The Scientific Method Tutorial

4. Bacterial Genetics and Genetic Manipulation

5. Bill's Science Sites

6. Alternative Science

7. Sites Supporting the Tribbles Mission

8. Terrestrial Extreme Environments Web Sites

9. Extremophiles

10. Biology of Extremophiles

11. Virtual Museum of Bacteria

12. The Search for Extreme Life

13. Michael Gross

14. Voyage to the Deep

15. Chemical Heritage Foundation

16. The Nobel Prize e-Museum