Plan for today:

Syllabuspart 1

Office hours

Textbook & iClicker

Attendance policy: read poem “Did I Miss Anything?”

Grades

What if I miss class?

Scenario #1

Brad is not prepared for

the exam, and so he skips

the scheduled in-class

exam.

A close friend of Angelina

dies two days before a big

biology exam, but

Angelina takes the

regularly scheduled exam

and does the best job

possible.

Is it fair to Angelina if the

instructor lets Brad take a

make-up exam?

Scenario #1 Scenario #2

Brad is not prepared for

the exam, and so he skips

the scheduled in-class

exam.

A close friend of Angelina

dies two days before a big

biology exam, but

Angelina takes the

regularly scheduled exam

and does the best job

possible.

Brad skips an exam

because a wicked

hangover kept him from

studying, but he told the

professor his mom was

hospitalized.

A close friend of Angelina

dies two days before a big

biology exam, but Angelina

takes the regularly

scheduled exam and does

the best job possible.

Is it fair to Angelina if the

instructor lets Brad take a

make-up exam?

Is it fair to Angelina if the

instructor lets Brad take a

make-up exam?

Scenario #1 Scenario #2 Scenario #3

Brad is not prepared for

the exam, and so he skips

the scheduled in-class

exam.

A close friend of Angelina

dies two days before a big

biology exam, but

Angelina takes the

regularly scheduled exam

and does the best job

possible.

Brad skips an exam

because a wicked

hangover kept him from

studying, but he told the

professor his mom was

hospitalized.

A close friend of Angelina

dies two days before a big

biology exam, but Angelina

takes the regularly

scheduled exam and does

the best job possible.

Brad skips an exam

because a wicked

hangover kept him from

studying, but he told the

professor his mom was

hospitalized.

A close friend of Angelina

dies two days before a big

biology exam, so Angelina

talks to the professor

before the exam and asks

for a few day extension.

Is it fair to Angelina if the

instructor lets Brad take a

make-up exam?

Is it fair to Angelina if the

instructor lets Brad take a

make-up exam?

What would you do if

you were the instructor?

Scenario #4

Diana has seasonal allergies that give rise to severe headaches. One

such headache caused Diana to miss class on a day a quiz was given.

Charles has a wicked hangover, so Charles misses class on a day a

quiz was given.

Both students request a make-up quiz.

Can the instructor

distinguish

between the two

students?

What would you do if

you were the

instructor?

[Each quiz is about 1%

of the overall grade, and

The lowest quiz is

dropped.]

What would you do

if you were the

instructor and the

quiz in the scenario

above was a take-

home quiz rather

than an in-class

quiz?

What would you do

if you were the

instructor if it was

an in-class exam

worth 20% of the

overall grade?

[no exam grades are

dropped]

Syllabuspart 2

Distractions

Academic misconduct

Photo Safari

15 page report

Each page is about a different specimen

from my list of specimen categories

See website for an example

Photo Safari

A phylogenetic tree is like a family tree:

it illustrate degrees of relatedness

Chimpanzee (ape) Gorilla (ape) Orangutan (ape)

Macaque (OWM) Squirrel monkey (NWM) Aye aye (lemur)

Diversity of Life

Why is this stuff important?

[insert your sarcastic comment here]

Why is this stuff important?

“There is a better reason for studying zoology

than its possible ‘usefulness’,

and the inherent likeableness of animals…”

- Richard Dawkins

A scientist discovers a new application for a common

medical procedure that involves taking tissues from one

patient and placing them into another patient. The

procedure always results in a full recovery for the patient

receiving the tissue but results in long-term disability for

the donor 10% of the time. According to bioethics,

making the decision as to whether this procedure should

be allowed in this country should be the responsibility of:

A. doctors only.

B. politicians only.

C. all citizens.

D. biologists specializing in bioethics.

E. philosophers.

Fountian

by Marcel Duchamp (1917)

Birth of Venus

by Sandro Botticelli(1486)

Mona Lisa

by Leonardo

da Vinci

(1503-1508)

The Treachery of Images

by Rene’ Magritte (1928-29)

J.S.G.

Boggs

Fountian

by Marcel Duchamp (1917)

Understanding enhances appreciation:

what will you think when you see this?

“There is a better reason for studying zoology

than its possible ‘usefulness’,

and the inherent likeableness of animals…

This reason is that we animals are the most complicated and

perfectly designed pieces of machinery in the known universe.”

- Richard Dawkins

What is science?

content + process

What is science?

content + process

Inductive

You Go to the Amazon and observe thousands of

flamingos, all of which are pink.

You then reason that flamingos are pink

Deductive

You have learned that living things have DNA.

You find something you’ve never encounter before

but you suspect is alive.

You then reason that it will contain DNA.

An example of science: content + process

Q: Why do some students meet their academic goals

(pass the exam)

while others fall short?

An example of science: content + process

Metacognition

There are known knowns.

These are things we know that we know.

There are known unknowns.

That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know.

But there are also unknown unknowns.

There are things we don't know we don't know.

Donald Rumsfeld

Q: How do I increase my success?

(meet my goals)

A: Improve metacognition!

Q: How do I increase my success?

(meet my goals)

A: Improve metacognition!

Oh…

so how do I improve metacognition?

Q: So how do I improve my metacognition?

A: Daily exercises and check-ups

If you were training for a marathon,

would you wait until the day before to

see if you are in shape?

Strategies for success

See it

Write it

Hear it

Practice it

Fix it now

Reminders:if you have not received an email from me…update your email address on Canvas

visit the course website: Extra Credit is available – due next Tuesday

For next class: take-home Quiz Week 1.1

pages 10 – 13 of your portfolio : “lecture #1 review” and “lecture #2 prep”

start thinking about which park you will go to for your Photo Safari

There will be a quiz on this at the beginning of our next class

define Life: How would you explain to a kid why a plant is alive but a volcano is not?