Dear students,

You can find blank botany quizzes and worksheets on our program file share in ORCA in the handouts folder, then botany handouts. This will be an excellent way to prepare for your final exam, which will draw from botany material from all lectures, labs and worksheets.

Here is the excel file with our class data. Here is the tomato graph and the IAA radish root graph for your to print and add to your lab notebook.

Please note that a complete botany lab notebook includes study questions, drawings for each station/prepared slide with labels, measurements and scale.

For our final lab, I expect you to include a brief introduction to the goals of the lab, your hypotheses, data tables with results (cut and paste from your lab handout or transcribe) from experiments and observations of tomatoes and radish seeds, a brief methods (pasted in or written out), individual and class results displayed as a figure or graph (provided here) and discussion of results with explanation of any possible experimental errors.

Good luck!

Lalita

Dear students,

Please bring your botany text book to class tomorrow- your quiz will be open book.

See you then!

Lalita

Here’s the lecture slides for external factors effecting plant growth and plant hormones.

There will be no worksheet this week. In lecture/workshop we will work in small groups to answer the questions at the beginning and end of chapter 27 and 28 in your textbooks. Pre-lab questions will be assigned on Tuesday in class.

Here’s our collective species list from Glacial Heritage Preserve. Thanks to Lovina for compiling the list! It’s certainly not comprehensive of what grows at this site, but I think we did a good job of capturing what was in bloom on the open prairie in addition to some uncommon tree species along the prairies edge. I will also mention that this list includes only vascular plants, no non-vasculars (mosses, hornworts, liverworts).

Here’s a link to the Puget Prairie plants wiki for photos and descriptions of plants.

1. Abies grandis
2. Achillea millefolium
3. Anaphalis margaritacea
4. Camassia quamash
5. Campanula rotundifolia
6. Castilleja levisecta
7. Cladonia spp.
8. Collinsia grandiflora
9. Crepis capillaris
10. Eriophyllum lanatum
11. Erythronium oreganum
12. Festuca roemeri
13. Gnaphalium spp.
14. Hieracium scouleri
15. Leucanthemum vulgare
16. Lomatium spp.
17. Lonicera spp.
18. Lupinus spp.
19. Microseris laciniata
20. Phlox gracilis
21. Pinus contorta
22. Plantago lanceolata
23. Plectritis congesta
24. Populus tremuloides
25. Potentilla spp
26. Pseudotsuga menziesii
27. Pteridium aquilinum
28. Quercus garryana
29. Ranunculus occidentalis
30. Ranunculus repens
31. Rhamnus purshiana
32. Rumex acetosella
33. Viola adunca
34. Zigadenus venenosus

Check out this rubric for writing your proposal.

Here are the lecture slides for week 7 angiosperm evolution lecture and external factors of plant growth. Enjoy!

Dear students,

In addition to our mid-quarter group check-in meetings, Krishna and I have met individually with several students this week to discuss group work dynamics. We wanted to take this opportunity to clarify the expectations we have for you in regards to your group project work.

In order for you to meet the requirements for the group project you must be fully engaged in all aspects of group project work. This means:

• Maintaining excellent communication with your group members
• Showing up to weekly group meetings outside of class time
• Submitting drafts of your individual group blog posts on time and turning in a high-quality, complete blog post by the deadline outlined in your group project guidelines.
• Contributing equally to the planning, research and writing aspects of your group blog post and submitting all drafts of your group blog post (proposal, project summaries and final posts) on time
• Contributing to all aspects of conducting your research and preparing your final group presentation for Science Carnival
• Showing up to and participating in your presentation at Science Carnival

If you personally have been meeting these expectations then you can expect to receive full credit for the group research portion of the program. We are happy to work with groups that are struggling to work together, so please get in touch with us as needed. We want to stress that we have been very pleased with most students’ engagement with the group research projects and we encourage you to keep up the good work!

In some cases, where individuals have not been attending group meeting regularly or have not been contributing to group work, including research and writing, then you may be asked to forfeit your spot in the group and lose credit for that portion of the group project work. Having group members that are not engaged in project work is not fair to the other group members and is not consistent with the five foci of learning that Evergreen students are expected to uphold.

I will remind you to please refer to your group project guidelines for details about due dates and individual and group blog post requirements, as well as info about your final presentations.

Below is a list of the rooms where each of group projects will be kept.

Lab 2 Room 3237
Circadian Rhythm of Bioluminescent Algae
The Carnivorous Necessity
Desiccation of Mosses
Tomato Madness
Sounds Effect on Circadian Rhythms

Lab 2 Room 2240
Ejection of Fern Spores

No space needed
Thigmotropism of Hops and Morning Glorys
Foraging a Forest

Your requested supplies are available for them to check out at the SSC. Your keys to access lab rooms are ready for pick up in the Key office Lab 2 first floor.

Here are this weeks lecture slides on introduction to angiosperms and secondary growth. Enjoy!