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Biology 615: Special Topics for High School / Middle
School Biology Teachers
Description and Objectives: This course is designed to give an introduction to the
topics covered in Middle and High School Biology classes, as aligned with the S.C.
science standards. Specifically, the course will cover inquiry, cells, ecology,
environment, evolution, DNA, genetics, and energetics / thermodynamics. By
covering this material, teachers should gain an understanding of the role biological
sciences play in technology and nature. In addition, an emphasis will be placed
upon inquiry-based lessons, place-based lessons, and laboratories that will
incorporate content. These approaches will help teachers prepare their students for
the end of course test (EOCT) in biology and the PASS science test.
Web resources:
http://scde.mrooms.org/index.php?page=14481
Dates and Times: The class will meet on Mondays – Fridays from 9:00 am – 5:00 pm.
The specific dates (June 11 – June 29, 2012) are included on the attached
course schedule. Class meetings will take place in Leatherman Science
Facility room 201 at Francis Marion University for the first 2 weeks and at
ScienceSouth the last week. Content-based lectures will occur from
9:00 – 10:30 am, Labs from 11:00 am -12:30 pm, Lunch (provided) from
12:30-1:30 pm, Labs 1:30 – 4:00 pm and 4:00-5:00 will include
discussions on standards, EOCT, assessment, and inquiry-based learning.
Instructors:
Lisa Pike / [email protected]
Associate Professor of Biology
Department of Biology,
Francis Marion University
Office: Leatherman Science Facility 204 D
Phone: (843) 661-1411
Grades:
* Laboratory
Participation
* Quizzes
* Lesson Plan
* Post-test
* Attendance
45%
20%
10%
20%
5%
Steve Welch / [email protected]
ScienceSouth at Freedom Florence
1511 Freedom Blvd.
Florence, SC 29505
Phone: (843) 679-5353
Janis McWayne, Evaluator.
FMU School of
Education. 661-1437. [email protected]
You must pass the post-test to pass the course.
A 85-100
B 75-84 C 65-74 F < 64
Laboratory: The majority of class meetings will include significant hands-on
laboratory time. These experiments will be a mixture of K8-12 labs
and college biological science labs. Participation is essential.
Quizzes:
Three short quizzes consisting primarily of multiple choice and short
answer questions will be given on the dates listed on the course
schedule. A main purpose of the quiz is to provide instructor
feedback on the concepts that have been covered. Any confusion can
then be addressed. A pre-test and post-test will also be given. Only
the post-test will count towards your grade.
Lesson Plan: Teachers will prepare 1 lesson as a lesson plan, ready to implement.
These will be shared with the class via flash drive.
Biology 615 Syllabus Requirements
Attendance: No absences are allowed, except in the case of emergencies. If a
student is absent more than 15% (missing or tardy over 12 hours or
1.5 days) of the total number of class meetings, the course instructor
has the right to withdraw the student from the course with an “F”.
The instructor may choose to allow students to make up class time to
avoid being withdrawn from the course; however, this is solely the
discretion of the instructor. Class make up time must be scheduled
with the instructor ahead of time, at his convenience, and must be
supervised by the instructor.
Tardiness:
Students are expected to be in class at the beginning of the stated
class time (9:00 am). Excessive tardiness may result in a student
being dropped from a class by the instructor.
Grade Reports:
Francis Marion University grade reports are available on-line.
Near the end of the course, your instructor will provide you with a
printed copy of the directions for accessing your grades on line or
your instructor will e-mail the directions to you. If you do not have
access to the Internet/World Wide Web, please visit the Francis
Marion University Office of the Registrar on campus (Stokes
Administration Building, Room 118) to sign a grade request form and
a printed grade report will be mailed to you.
Course and Instructor Evaluations:
Every semester students are provided the
opportunity to evaluate each course and its instructor so that
educational quality may be maintained and enhanced. All students are
encouraged to respond to the evaluation with honesty, sincerity, and a
sense of confidentiality.
The evaluation is administered during class time with the instructor
leaving the room while a designated student hands out and then
collects the forms. This student also delivers the sealed envelope
containing the completed forms to the district office or the contracting
agency office for mailing to Francis Marion University. These
evaluations are completely anonymous and faculty do not receive any
feedback until grades have been turned in to the Registrar. Upon
noting that these procedures of evaluation have not been followed, a
student may contact the Office of the Provost at (843) 661-1286 in order
to confidentially inform the administration of such failure to follow
procedures.
Your Day:
9:00 am - 12:30 pm Lecture and Lab activities
10:30 am - Break (10 min)
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Lunch (provided: Faculty Cottage M-TH; Pizza Friday)
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm Lab activities
3:30 pm - Break (10 min)
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Discussion
Field Trips: The intention is to implement Place-Based Education.
i. Project Learning Tree Training (PreK-8) on FMU campus
Wednesday June 12 (10:15 – 4:30 am). We will be spending
some time outdoors. Certification included.
ii. ScienceSouth on-site Field Trip on Wednesday and Thursday
June 27th and 28th (9:00 am) *Outside - bug spray! We’ll be
walking to the woods and pond to do water quality, pond
organisms, and forest tree diversity (Species / Area curves).
Campus Housing: The intention is that this is a commuter course. However, due to
past experience we are offering some campus housing. If you choose to stay on
campus in student housing you will forfeit the $500 stipend given upon course
completion. In other words, the $500 will be used to pay for housing for the three
weeks. Housing is in the student apartments, with private rooms but a shared bath
/ kitchen / living space. We will make every effort to pair you with a teacher and
not an undergraduate student taking summer classes. Lunches on Monday – Friday
are paid for as a part of the course but you will be responsible for your own
breakfast and dinner. Please let us know with your application if you need housing.
Date
Topic
2011
Monday
June 11
Standard B-1
and B-3 & 7th
grade (7-1, 7-3)
Inquiry
9:00 Intro to Course / Syllabus
Pre-test / Pre-Survey / Parking
Stickers etc.
10:30 Lecture: Into to Inquiry, Data
Collection, Graphing
1:30 Inquiry Labs
3:00 Calorimetry Lab
4:00 Discussion: SC standards support
system (S3) and 7th grade applied
biology standards
Tues. June 12
Standard B-6
& 7-4
Project Learning Tree Certification Ecology and Environment
Inquiry Lab (She
turned me into a newt
(I got better)
Inquiry Lab
(Storytelling Graph)
Calorimetry (B-1, B-3)
Discuss: Water
transport in plants: an
exercise in
experimental design
* Some outside work
Box Lunch Provided
Wed. June 13
Chemistry (Enzymes) & Cells
Standard B-2
9:00 Lecture: cells and cell chemistry
& 7-2
Labs /
Standards
10:00 Cell labs
1:00 Enzyme Labs
4:00 9-12 biology standards / Applied
Biology and EOCT Q&A
cheek cells, Elodea
plasmolysis &
cytoplasmic streaming,
stomata, onion, pollen
tube, termites (B-2.12.4)
cell size lab (surface
area to volume ratio)
(B-2)
Enzyme (Spit) lab,
lactose & milk
digestion, germinating
seeds and enzymes
(B-2.7, B-2.8)
Thurs. June 14
Standard B-2 &
B-4 & 7-2.4
Enzymes, Membranes, Diffusion and
Osmosis
* indicator solutions
Enzymes and Catalase
(Yeast) (B-2.7, B-2.8)
9:00 finish enzyme labs
10:30 Lecture: osmosis
Osmosis and Diffusion
labs (B-2.5)
1:30 Osmosis labs
3:30 Diffusion (agar)
Electrophoresis (B-2
and B-4)
4:00 PASS testing and 7th grade
Standards (biology)
Fri. June 15
Standard B-3
& 7-2.4
6th grade
Energetics / Photosynthesis / Cell
Respiration (Probeware)
9:00 Lecture – Energetics
10:30 Respiration labs (mealworms,
plants, yeast)
1:00 Finish Respiration Labs
2:00 Photosynthesis (chlorophyll /
lycopene extraction / absorption)
3:00 Plant Respiration
4:00 Pascal and Vernier Probes in the
Classroom (motion, CO2)
Mon. June 18
QUIZ 1
Dr. Vernon Bauer’s models for DNA
Replication, Transcription,
Translation
Standard B-4 &
7-2.5
9:00 QUIZ 1
9:30 Plants and Transpiration
Standard B-6 &
7-4.3
11:00 Lecture: Transcription and
Translation
and 6th grade
1:00 DNA Repl / Transc/ Transl models
2:30 DNA Dry Labs
Molasses and yeast
demo, measuring yeast
fermentation, bromythol
blue and Elodea, CO2
production in seeds,
cricket respiration (B3.2)
Vernier probes for
animal
respiration(mealworms)
(B -3.2)
Paperclip Pedagogy
Pasco probes for
Photosynthesis / Plant
respiration (B-3.1)
Plants and
Transpiration;
Transpiration with
Probes (B-1; B-3)
DNA models
(B-4.1-4.4)
DNA Dry Labs (B-4)
Protein Bracelet (B-4)
Brine Shrimp Behavior
Tues. June 19
Standard B-5 &
7-2.6 and &-2.7
Standards B-1,
B-2, B-3, B-4
7th grade
8th grade
Wed. June 20
Standards B-6
6th-7th
grade
3:00 Brine Shrimp and Habitat
Preference
4:00 NCCSTS Case Studies
Evolution
9:00 Lecture – MicroEvolution
10:00 Evolution Labs
1:00 Phylogeny and Caminacules
Agents of Evolution
(Beans) (B-5.1-5.4)
Caminacules (B-5.7)
Animal Diversity (6th)
Dichotomous Key
4:00 Plant Game: How to use Games in
Biology Lab to Collect / Graph Data
Plant Game Inquiry (B1, B-6.2, B-6.5; 7-4.5)
Ecology
9:00 Lecture – Population Ecology,
Species Interactions
11:00 Mark-Recapture Lab
Mark Recapture Lab (B6)
3:30 Environment and Behavior: UV
Beads, Parental Care
Standard B-3,
B-5, B-6 and
7-4
Co-evolution and
Natural Selection (B-5.1
- 5.4)
2:30 Taxonomy and Dichotomous Keys
3:30 Animal Diversity
1:00 Survivorship Lab
2:30 Blacklighting for Insects
Thurs.
June 21
* Outside
(6th & B-1, B-6.1, B-6.2,
B-6.6)
4:00 Place-Based Education
Ecology, Energy / Nutrient Flow in
Ecosystems
9:00 Species Richness / Area curves
11:00 Lecture – Community Ecology,
Species Interactions
Survivorship lab (Type I
curves) (B-6.2)
Biodiversity of Insects
6th-8th, B-5
UV beads: Inquiry
(B-1, 6th-8th)
Species diversity in a
forest (B 6.1-6.3)
(Outside)
Predation lab
(B-6.1, B-3.6)
2:00 Predation Lab, Mimicry Lab
3:00 Overfishing Lab
Overfishing Lab
(Tragedy of the
Commons) 7-4.6; B6.6
4:00 AP Biology / Rubrics / Assessment
Mimicry (B-5)
Fri. June 22
Mitosis, Meiosis, Mendelian Genetics
Standard B-4,
B-5 & 7-2.5
9:00 lecture – Mitosis, Meiosis
Mendelian Genetics (Corn and Beads to
Demo)
11:00 Dragon Genetics: Concord
Consortium program (free-ware)
4:00 Science South Implementation
Discussion / Planning
Monday June
25
QUIZ 2
Standards B-4,
B-5, and B-1 &
7-2
6th
grade
** Monday – Thursday all activities
will be held at Science South. Please
arrive promptly by 9 am. Afternoons
will be spent practicing /
implementing the lessons with middle
school kids.
Mitosis / Meiosis Beads
/ Corn
Concord Consortium
Dragon Genetics
(B-4.5 & B-4.6)
Dragon Genetics B-4; 7th
grade (popsicle sticks:
Mendel)
Marvels of Mitosis
(B-4)
Genes in a Bottle (B-4)
Human Body Systems
9:00 Quiz 2
Mitosis / Meiosis
9:30 Genetics: Cell Division, Mitosis
11:00 Genes in a Bottle
1:00 Human Body Systems (model hand,
ear, lung)
3:00 Hidden Sugars / Tooth Decay
Tuesday June
268
Standard B-4
& 7-2
Biotechnology
DNA Extraction (B-4)
9:00 DNA Extraction (Strawberry)
10:30 Gel electrophoresis lab
(Fingerprinting)
Gel electrophoresis
(fingerprinting)
(B-4.9, B-2.5)
1:00 Lesson Implementation (genes in
bottle / human body systems)
Wednesday
June 27
(Outside)
Standard B-6 &
Ecology / Plant Biology
*Outside
9:00 Flower / Seed dissection & Plant
ID, Nature Walk
Outside: Plant ID /
Nature Walk
(B-5 & 6th grade)
Flowers Fruits and
7-4 & 6-2
1:00 Lesson Implementation (DNA extr
/ electrophoresis)
Seeds (6th)
Thursday June
28 (outside)
Ecology (Watersheds)
Outside: Water Quality
and Microaquaria (B-6 /
6th-7th grade)
Standard B-6
& 7-4 & 6-3
*Outside
9:00 Microaquaria and Water Quality
Analyses with Aquatic
Macroinvertebrates
1:00 Lesson Implementation (sugars –
teeth / plant ID & flower – seed
dissection)
4:30 Review for Quiz / Post Test
Friday June 29
9:00 am Francis Marion University
QUIZ 3
Individual conferences, evaluations, quiz,
post–test, surveys.
Post-Test
Throughout the Day: Individual PostInterviews