User:ASnieckus/Intro biology

Intro biology

PLC biology syllabus

Original offering: Intro biology labs

Course held Feb 2011 to May 2011 for high school students who do not attend school.

The following sections include notes describing the labs performed.

Students: Stephanie, Ted, Julian, and Fatimah

Listing of biology labs

Lab sessions

• Lab 1: Diffusion and osmosis (Feb 21)

• Lab 2: Investigating the action of 6 enzymes (Feb 28)

• Lab 3: DNA extraction (Mar 7)

Introduction session (Feb 9)

• Background: discuss with students how they are studying biology. Discuss whether students have studied or plan to study the following:
  • Cell biology
  • Respiration
  • Photosynthesis
  • Molecular genetics
  • Cell reproduction
  • Mendelian genetics and mutation
  • Population genetics and evolution
  • Animal systems and homeostasis

• Labs:
  • Pre-read background material and lab procedure
  • Organize into two sets of pairs
  • Perform lab
  • Lab write-up -- discuss report specs (copy for each)
  • Feedback on lab report

• Organization: discuss options for communication of meetings, prep work, feedback....email, moodle, google docs

• Issues:
  • Dissection - one of the labs we could do could be a fetal pig dissection. Any interest?
  • Microscope - I have one, but it will be useful to have another for some labs. Anyone have access to one they could bring?