A. Introduction: The Scientific Method and Homeostasis
A. the Scientific Method and Experimental Design
Review the notes and assignments given out in class, as well as your notes for the videos "Scientific Inquiry: Steps, Skills and Action" and "Eyes of Nye: Pseudoscience", as well as the Writing a Hypotheses assignment.
Check your PLOs (study guide handed out in class) to check your knowledge against the quiz/exam criteria. I recommend you use it as a summary checklist and vocabulary-to-know list for each unit.
Scientific Method notes (download pdf below, NOT handed out in class)
- Writing a Hypothesis (download pdf below, handed out in class)
- Experimental Design - select activity 1.2, do post-quiz, and submit your responses to questions to [email protected]
- Virtual Lab - Dependent and Independent Variables, submit your responses to questions to [email protected]
- Homeostasis (download supplementary text below, handed out in class)
select activity 27.1 Feedback Loops and Homeostasis, do post-quiz, and submit your responses to questions to [email protected]
- Vocabulary: Crossword / Jumble
- Map: Scientific Method 1/Key,2/Key
(Password for Map "Key" is the correct answer for the last Q (Capitalized), e.g., for #2 above the PW is "Theory".) - Study Question: 13+1Q, 14+1Q, 14Q
- Review 14+5Q
- Pretest 11+1Q
- Text Chp 1 80Q (a good review of your prior biology knowledge—you should be able to answer all these Q)
- Activity:
- Yellow Light (handed out in class)
| scientific_method_notes.pdf |
| homeostasis_-_supplementary_text.pdf |
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