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Week 1 Slides - Student - Final
Week 1 Slides - Student - Final
Please pick up the course outline handout and blank half-sheet of paper at the front of the room!
Wesbrook 115
Teaching assistants for BIOLOGY 112 Daniel Jun, Hilary Leung Administrative questions Karen Smith: Wesbrook Room 115 bacteria@interchange.ubc.ca
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http://resources.connect.ubc.ca/
If you have a used clicker, the number might be rubbed off. Go to the Barber Learning Center - they have a site where they can tell you your clicker number or see Karen Smith in Wesbrook room 115.
Each week will contain a schedule, assigned readings, pdfs of lecture slides, learning objectives, pre-class quizzes.
Mark Distribution
Grading Scheme
Assessment Method Examinations
Learning Activities
Course Examinations
Midterm 1 held in class on Wed, Jan. 30th Thurs, Jan 31st Midterm 2 held in the evening on Wed, Mar. 6th, 2013 at 7 pm. Final exam scheduled by Enrolment services. Usually schedule posted mid-Feb.
What is the approximate ratio of the number of human cells to microbial cells in/on your body? A. B. C. D. E. 1 human cell per 100 microbes. 1 human cell per 10 microbes. 1 human cell per 1 microbe. 10 human cell per 1 microbe. 100 human cells per 1 microbe.
Todays Activity
Here is our first in-class activity called Replicating Thing What to do: -read the activity/instruction yourself. -think about some solutions. -talk with your neighbours and work together! -write your full name and student # on the half sheet of paper. -write your ideas on the half-sheet.
Assume youve gotten a job with a mad scientist. This person wants to create a non-organic thing which might be a machine or some kind of device (its not clear). But the thing can self-replicate. That is, if left on its own it will make copies of itself and the copies will be able to make copies of themselves. To start this task you decide you need to make a list of the properties this thing must have. Confer with your neighbours and make the list. Write the ideas on the half sheet. Well collect ideas and see what we get.
Proteins
Replicating thing criteria: 1. Generate a container 2. Gather raw material 3. Gather or make parts 4. Gather and transform energy 5. Have a set of instructions 6. Pass instructions to replicas 7. Mechanism to read the instructions By these criteria which of the following are self-replicating things: 1. Human skin cells 2. A human being A. All 5 3. Bacteria (E. coli) B. 1, 3, 5 only 4. Self pollinating plants C. 1, 2, 3, 4 only 5. Viruses D. 2, 3, 4 only E. 1, 3, 4 only
What is a concept?
How do you know what you are "supposed to know" for this class?
Example Learning Objective from Week 2: Contrast lag phase, exponential phase, stationary phase and death phase in terms of division rate, cell composition and cell viability.
You need to decide: What does contrast mean? What information are you supposed to contrast? Where is this information? How can this information be used to make a question for the exam?
2. How are these properties similar? 3. How are these properties different? 4. Why would cells have these differences? Finally ask your self- and your study partners: What sort of multiple choice or short answer question might be asked about this?
Learning at University
Consider this investigation: Focusing on how students study Gurung et al, Jan. 2010
Researchers asked What is the best advice to give students regarding how to study?
Journal of Scholarship of Teaching & Learning. Jan. 2010 Vol 1, No. 1 pp 28- 35
Overall Result? No strategies work all the time, for all students, in all classes!
This is consistent with all the literature!
Weekend Reminders
Check out week 2 folder on CONNECT for assigned readings, discussion topics, learning objectives. Complete readings. Do CONNECT quiz before Mon 2 pm. Pre-class Assignment Week 2 Print lecture slides for Monday/Tuesday.