Week of August 26 2013

Academic Biology Welcome back! I'm looking forward to an exciting year in biology. Were are starting right in with chapter1 what is science? Monday-cover classroom rules exit slip with a definition of science that will be discussed in class Tuesday. Tuesday-Complete talk to the text article started in class Wed. Distinguish science from pseudoscience...Read you articles and descide if you are dealing with true science or not. Answer questions explaining your reasoning.We will work as teams with one assignment submitted from each. Thursday- Observation and inference will be the topic for the day.We will start with lecture and close with a worksheet that reinforces the concept. It will not be graded. Friday-Lecture We close our first week together with a revisit to the steps in scientific method.Have a great weekend.