Dear students,

Your first draft of your individual blog posts are due this Friday at 9am.The more complete and polished a draft that you turn on Friday, the more valuable peer-feedback you will receive. Taking advantage of multiple rounds of revisions to your blog post will help you to improve your writing skills and will hopefully help you to craft a clear and compelling piece of writing that you can be proud of.

Please bring 3 copies of your individual blog post and three copies of your authors note to class to hand out to your peers for feedback. Please also read the revisions guide.

The authors note is an opportunity for you to share with your peer-revision partner, the strengths of your writing and the areas that you seek to improve or would like specific feedback on.The revisions guide explains the different kinds of feedback that you might want to provide for your peer-revision partners blog post draft.

Your individual blog post should meet the following requirements:

• The body of your article should be no longer than 1000 words
• You should include at least 1 photo. Be sure to check photo permissions and credit the photographer if it is not your photo. DO NOT use images from the Internet without permission from the originator of the content.
• Feel free to include video or links to other content on the internet. The more interactive a blog post is, the better.
• Each post should include at least 5 references. Two must be from the peer-reviewed scientific literature. The other references may be books, magazine or newspaper articles, or links to reputable sources on the internet.
• We will use Science citation format. Complete guidelines for this format can be found here: https://www.sciencemag.org/authors/instructions-preparing-initial-manuscript

Good luck!

Lalita and Krishna

Here’s the gymnosperm and water movement lectures from today.

Dear students. Here you will find the slides for tomorrow’s photosynthesis and seedless vascular plant lectures.

For tomorrow’s botany quiz, be sure to review the life cycles handout from last week as well as lecture slides on bryophytes. Your study questions from the bryophyte lab will also help you to prepare. It’s important that you focus on getting down your understanding of terminology to describe plant life cycles (such as haploid, diploid, gametophyte, sporophyte, meoisis, fertilization) and spend time working with life cycle diagrams for each group of land plants this quarter.

Tomorrow we have a packed morning including:

• Quiz 3- Bryophytes
• Innovators presentations
• Lecture on photosynthesis/seedless vascular plants

We were hoping to get out early ~11:30 so that we can regroup at 12:30 for a plant walk on the Evergreen Beach trail meeting at the trailhead in F lot. Our plant walk will end at 1:30 and we will meet in the CAL at 2pm for video analysis work with Krishna!

Enjoy this amazing spring weather!

Dear students. Here is our tentative program schedule, complete with class meetings, due dates and readings. Have a great weekend!

Here’s the bryophyte lecture for tomorrow!

Hey folks, use this material, in addition to your lab and lecture on plant organs and tissues to study for Botany quiz 2. See you all tomorrow.

Botany lecture: Evolution and Systematics lecture

Botany Worksheet 2

Here are the slides for tomorrow’s lecture on the plant body (including plant organs and tissues)! If we have time, I may also lecture on Plant Evolution and Diversity.

Dear students,

The best way to study for botany quizzes will be to review the botany lectures, your notes study sheets and labs. In some cases, I might include an image or slide showing morphological or anatomical plant features from lab that you will need to identify or label. Early on in the quarter, vocabulary from lectures and labs will also be included. If you attend all labs and lectures and review this material, you should have no problem doing well on weekly botany quizzes.

See you all tomorrow!

Good evening folks! Please make sure you have received an email from me inviting you to the shared google doc where you can sign up for the Innovators in Botany and Physics presentation. Please refer to your handout for details on the assignment. I’ve included a link in this post to the google doc as well. If you haven’t received the email inviting you, it may be in your SPAM or JUNK mail folder–so please look first before emailing to say you didn’t receive it. Thanks!

Link to sign-up sheet

Here’s a key to botany worksheet 1. Use this worksheet to help you study for your first Botany Quiz on Tuesday!