SCIENCE 111/111L (THE SCIENCES II) TOPIC SCHEDULE

SECTION 001

SPRING 2006

Mondays and Wednesdays, 11:00AM - 1:15PM in Folsom 304

Dr. Bonnie Wood

 

Key to Fonts:

Outline Titles and Numbers

•         In class and laboratory activities

STUDENT PRESENTATIONS, ASSIGNMENTS, TESTS

Textbook chapters and other homework

 

WEEK

HOMEWORK

MONDAY

WEDNESDAY

1

 

1/16: HOLIDAY – NO CLASSES

 

 

 

1/18:

•         Find Your Learning Group/Introductions

·          Case Study:  Thinking Inside the Box

·          Lab Safety

 

2

Read Syllabus

Ch. 17, Outline 1.

1/25: Book review title due.

1/23: Earth's Weather (Outline 1)

·          Weather Maps and Measurements

·          Cartesian Diver

·          Organize "Graphing Seven Days of Presque Isle Weather" data collection

 

1/25: Earth's Weather (Outline 1)

Guest Speaker: Mark Turner, Hydrologist, National Weather Service, Caribou

•         Work on "Graphing Seven Days of Presque Isle Weather"

 

3

Chs. 8 & 9, Outline 2.

1/30: Graphing 7 Days of Weather due.

2/1: Test review questions due.

By 3/1: Book review draft consultation at Writing Center.

1/30: Earth's Weather (Outline 1)

PRESENTATIONS: GRAPHING 7 DAYS OF WEATHER

·          Case Study:  Cancel the Cardinals Home Opener?

·          The Petition: A Global Warming Case Study

 

2/1: Atoms & Periodic Properties (Outline 2)

·          Classification of Matter

·          Demonstration:  Suspension vs. Solution

·          Density Columns

·          The Relationship  between Mass & Volume

 

4

2/6: Post Lab Questions due (Mass & Volume)

2/6: Atoms & Periodic Properties (Outline 2)

·          Diet or Regular?

·          Test Review Activity

 

2/8: TEST (Outlines 1,2)

5

Ch. 9, Outline 3.

2/13:  Homework on Household Chemicals due.

By 3/1: Book review draft consultation at Writing Center.

2/13: Chemical Reactions (Outline 3)

·          Atoms Represented by Bolts, Screws, Nuts and Washers

·          Types of Compounds

 

2/15: Chemical Reactions (Outline 3)

·          Atoms Represented by Bolts, Screws, Nuts and Washers

·          Equilibrium:  Throwing Paper Wads in the Classroom

 

WINTER BREAK-NO CLASSES

6

Ch. 10, Outline 4.

3/1: Test review questions due.

By 3/1: Book review draft consultation at Writing Center.

2/27: Water & Solutions (Outline 4)

·          Like Dissolves Like

·          How Many Molecules of Sucrose in a Sugar Granule?

·         "Mole"asses Cookies Recipe (Learning group members divide responsibilities)

3/1: Water & Solutions (Outline 4)

•         Case Study: Avogadro Goes to Court

 

7

3/6: Bring a household product to test pH. "Mole"asses cookie recipe translation due.

3/10: Dr. Wood submits midterm grades.

3/6: Water & Solutions (Outline 4)

·          Cabbage Chemistry

·          Awards: "Mole"asses Cookies Competition

·          Test Review Activity

 

3/8: TEST (Outlines 3,4)

·          Diffusion and Osmosis in a Chicken Egg, Class 1 (see Outline 5): Start eggs

 


8

Ch. 20, Outline 5.

3/15: Final book review due.

3/13: Cells (Outline 5)

·          Diffusion and Osmosis in a Chicken Egg,

      Class 2

·          Size and Shape of Cells. Surface Area: Volume Ratios

 

3/15: Cells (Outline 5)

·          Diffusion and Osmosis in a Chicken Egg,

      Class 3

·          The Compound Microscope

 

 

9

 

Ch. 23, Outline 6

3/22:  Read Green Manhattan and Watch Your Step before class.

Homework on Trophic Levels, Energy, and Price due.

 

3/20: Cells (Outline 5)

·          Diffusion and Osmosis in a Chicken Egg,

      Class 4

·          Plant & Animal Cells

 

 

 

 

3/22: Ecology and Environment (Outline 6)

MEET IN COMPUTER LAB FOLSOM 101A

·          Case Study: Watch Your Step: Understanding the Impact of Your Personal Consumption on the Environment

 

 

10

3/29: Ecological Footprint Spreadsheet and written answers to Questions 1-5, Part V, Watch Your Step due.

3/29: Test Review Questions due

 

3/27:  Cells (Outline 5)

·          A Problem About Osmosis

·          Diffusion and Osmosis in Plant and Animal Cells

 

3/29: Ecology and Environment (Outline 6)

Guest Speaker: “How to Effect Change”

State Representative Jeremy Fischer

·          Plan Environmental Action Projects

SPRING BREAK-NO CLASSES

11

Ch. 20, Outline 7.

See www.cells

alive.com (Cell Biology: Mitosis; The Cell Cycle)

By 4/14: Environmental Action Project draft consultation at Writing Center.

 

4/10: Cell Reproduction (Outline 7)

·          DNA Replication Outside the (Cereal) Box

·          Paper Chromosomes - Mitosis

·          Mitosis in Allium cepa

·          Test Review Activity

 

 

4/12:

UNIVERSITY DAY

 

 

 

12

4/19: Written Environmental Action Projects due

4/17: TEST (Outlines 5,6,7)

4/19: Ecology and Environment (Outline 6)

·          Oral presentations on Environmental Action         Projects

 

 

 

13

Chs. 25 and 26, Outline 8

4/26: Karyotype due.

4/24: Human Biology: Genetics (Outline 8)

·          Sweat Sock Chromosomes- Meiosis

·          Paper Chromosomes - Meiosis

·          Karyotyping

·          Extraction & Spooling of DNA

 

4/26: Human Biology: Genetics (Outline 8)

·          Inheritance of ABO Blood Types

·          Taste Test

·          Coin Toss Pedigrees

•         Case Study:  Sometimes It Is All In The Genes

 

14

 

5/1: Human Biology: Genetics (Outline 8)

•         DNA Fingerprinting

•         Restriction Enzyme/DNA Fingerprinting Simulation

•         Case Study: Two Peas in a Pod?

 

5/3: Final Exam Review

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COMPREHENSIVE FINAL EXAM (OUTLINES 1 - 8): WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 2006

 12:45 PM – 2:45 PM