SQ4R Chapter 1

The Science of Life

Chapter 1 Objectives

Course Calendar

STUDY HABITS

Return to Index

Google Images Scholar

Classroom Instruction

Homework

Biology:

The High School Assessment

Biology-The Science of Life

Action Bioscience

Movies, Animations and Interactive Tutorial Links

Science@ a Distance

Chapter 1 Objectives

STUDY HABITS

1. Introduction to 10CCP Biology-Grading Categories


2. Why Use Computers in Education

a. SQ4R

b. Learning How to Learn

3. Culture Quiz

4. The Extraterrestrial Interview

5. The Day the Universe Changed

6. The Pale Blue Dot Presentation

a. SETI @Home-Sagan

b. Pale Blue Dot-Space.com

c. Pale Blue Dot

d. Reflections on a Mote of Dust

e. Mars Express Looks Back

f. Powers of Ten

g. Astrobiology

7. Biology-The Study of Life-CD

(Pre-Post Test)

Chap. 1 The Science of Life Power Point Presentation

a. AIDS CD

b. AIDS Tutorial

c. Human Growth Hormone

d. Evolution CD

(Pre-Post Test)

A Synopsis of Evolution and Natural Selection

e. Evolution Tutorial

f. Chapter 10 Evolution

g. Pseudoscience-Critical Thinking

Biology Careers-CD

(Pre-Post Test)

8. IIe-Scientific Method Presentation

Responsible Thinking

a. Thinking Scientifically

(1). Scientific Process

(2). Example of an Experiment

b. The Scientific Method Tutorial

1. Professor Twinklebein

2. The Search for Solutions

3. Scientific Approach and Peer Review

c. What is Life?

d. Defining Life?

Unknown Creature

e. Presentation -The Disappearing Frogs

1. UV Radiation and Frogs

f. Campbell CD-Acid Rain

(1). The pH Factor

(2). The pH Playground

(3). Acids and Bases

(4). Acid Rain

g. Food Webs

h. Potato Core-Model Cell Lab

Cell CD

Kimball-Eukaryotic Animal Cells

Osmosis Tutorial & Quiz

NetLogo

a. Chemistry

Kinetics-Kinetics 3 Worksheet

i. Diffusion/Osmosis Terms Quiz

j. Diffusion and Osmosis Lab Test

9. Jump Balls

a. Grasshopper Race

b. Poor Disguise

c. Anaphylaxis

d. Natural Selection

10. Chapter 1 Examination-Objectives

11. Test BCR & ECR Rubric

12. Human Genes and Chimp Genes

McGraw Hill Learning Center

Kimball's Pages

Movies, Animations and Interactive Tutorial Links

Chapter 1 Objectives

Reading your text is the basis of all instruction in 10 Honors 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.

-Always use your Chapter Objectives as your directive to the homework. Keep a copy on the desktop, or a hardcopy, and fill in the information needed to meet the objective.

-Using the SQ4R method, read Chapter 1 in the text. Do the reading and study exactly as it is described in the SQ4R procedure. Do not cheat on this you're only hurting yourself!

-After reading Chapter 1, and answering what you can of your objectives, complete the homework assignments listed below. Copy and past a copy of your objectives into your word processor. Cut and paste text, and graphics, from the online activities to make yourself a document that you can use in your study group.

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, but if that can be arranged then using Homeroom D-140 Post and Discuss is the next best thing. Click the link and register. Get your Study Group members to register and you have a way of communicating 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.

Follow this procedure with each of the Chapters assigned.


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. Food Chains and Webs

a. A simple description of a food chain

b. More simple chains

c. Food Chains and Webs with a Build-a-Food-Web Activity

d. The Antarctic Food Web


7. 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 .

Lab Activity
Reference

1. Brother Gregory speaks to his class,

The subjects for today's lesson is the scientific method, or 'what do scientists do all day'? You must follow the lesson, answer the questions, then complete the required research investigations.

There will be an in class Lab Test that will count in the Laboratory Grade Category. The objectives for this test can be obtained by clicking here

2. Introduction to Lab Protocols

The Cube Lab will introduce the structure of a laboratory report. You will perform a simple lab and write a Lab Report that will be evaluated through a rubric.

3. Campbell CD- Chapter 1

a. Leafhoppers Lab

b. Acid Rain Lab

4. The Search for Solutions

5. Qualitative Lab

Identifying Unknown Substances-this is a qualitative investigation using standards. It will demonstrate how tesing is done to identify unkown subatances.

How to Write a Lab Report

Peer Review Protocol

Peer Review Protocol

McGraw Hill Learning Center

Kimball's Pages

Action Bioscience

Movies, Animations and Interactive Tutorial Links

Science@ a Distance

1. Deformed Frogs In Minnesota

2. Acid Rain Resource Page

3. The pH Factor

4. The pH Playground

5. Acids and Bases

6. EurekAlert

7. National Geographic-A Mars Never Dreamed Of

8. Solar System Exploration

9. Scientific Method

10. Scientific Papers

11. Osmosis Tutorial & Quiz

12. AP Biology Site

13. Brain Pop