In our Week 7 Tuesday May 10 Science Skills Workshop, we’ll spend time going over Revealing catastrophic failures of leaf networks under stress, a recent research article by Brodribb, et. al. in PNAS. We’ll hand out a paper copy at the Science Skills Workshop. There is no need to prepare anything in advance, but we wanted to let you know just in case you wanted to look it over beforehand. Here’s a popular science article summarizing the PNAS article.

For Week 7, please read:

• Biology of Plants: Ch. 20

Week 7 Schedule:

• due by 5 pm Mon. May 9 via group blog: Revised Individual Blog Post posted to group blog for faculty review.
• due by 6 pm, Mon. May 9 via WebAssign: Physics Problem Set 6.
• due by 9 am, Tue. May 10: Post project videos, pictures, and other data either to program share Workspace folder in the Week 7 Project Updates folder, or on your group’s blog.
• due by 9 am, Wed. May 11, in class: Revisions for Quizzes 1, 2, and 3. See this post for details.
• due Thu. May 12 via your my.evergreen.edu: updated Academic Statements posted and “turned in” (if not posted, a registration hold will be imposed). Links to details here.

• 9 am, Tue. May 10. Sem 2 B1105: Botany Quiz; Botany Lecture.
• 1 pm, Tue. May 10. Class meets in CAL West. Science Skills Workshop.
• 9 am, Wed. May 11. Lab 1 2046: Physics Quiz; Project Video viewing and related physics.
• 1:30 pm, Wed. May 11. Library building. Mentor Day
• 4 pm, Wed. May 11. CRC. Academic Fair
• 9 am, Thu. May 12. Field Trip to Glacial Heritage Preserve: meet vans in C Lot at 8:45 am.
• 1 pm, Thu. May 12. Lab 1 1040/1050. Group Project time
• 9 am, Fri. May 13. Sem 2 B1107: Group Project time; Weekly Wrap.

In our Week 6 Friday May 6 Wrap, we’ll spend some time going over The hierarchical structure and mechanics of plant materials, a review article by Professor Lorna Gibson. We’ll hand out a paper copy in lab on Thursday. There is no need to prepare anything in advance, but we wanted to let you know just in case you wanted to look it over beforehand. Again, no need to do anything with this article before the Wrap, but do remember to bring it with you.

Week 6 Lecture Slides

You can download a printable version of Physics Problem Set 6 (due Mon. May 9 at 6 pm via WebAssign) here.

Week 5 Lecture Slides

Please see the Academic Planning and Academic Statement Workshop page.

• You can find solutions to Physics Problem Set 5 here.
• A number of students have contacted me to let me know that they struggled with this week’s material, or are struggling in general with physics. I appreciate how hard that can be, and the responsibility for your own education that you are showing. I will be available for an extra help session after class on Tuesday from 3:30 – 5:00, in CAL West. Please use this time.

As noted in class, students are welcome to submit physics quiz revisions as they wish. Students who score a total of 10 or less on a physics quiz are particularly invited to submit quiz revisions. Here are some general guidelines:

• Due dates:
  • Due 9am Wednesday Week 7 – Quiz 1, 2, 3 revisions
  • Due 9am Wednesday Week 8 – Quiz 4 revision
  • Due 9am Wednesday Week 9 – Quiz 5, 6, revisions
  • Due 9am Wednesday Week 10 – Quiz 7 revisions
  • Due 5pm Friday Week 10 – Final Exam revision (we have an in-class Exam Revision Workshop on Thursday)
• Students may choose to revise any quiz questions on which they were marked with a 3 or less.
• Revised solutions must be perfectly clear, complete, and correct to be considered.
• You may use any resource to prepare your revised solution. HOWEVER…
• …Revised solutions must display your personal understanding of the material. This means that you must personally understand every step that you write down, and individually produce your final submitted revised solution.
• Revisions to multiple choice/matching/fill in the blank type questions must include a full explanation (simply circling or providing the correct response is insufficient).
• Your Revisions must be produced on a separate sheet of paper or on a blank quiz, and presented neatly along with your original quiz paper.

For your convenience, here are blank copies of earlier quizzes (this post will be updated with subsequent week’s quizzes once administered):

1. Quiz 1 on Week 1 material (given in week 2)
2. Quiz 2 on Week 2 material (given in week 3)
3. Quiz 3 on Week 3 material (given in week 4)
4. Quiz 4 on Week 4 material (given in week 5)
5. Quiz 5 on Week 5 material (given in week 6)
6. Quiz 6 on Week 6 material (given in week 7)
7. Quiz 7 on Week 7 material (given in week 8) no quiz in week 8
8. Quiz 7 on Week 8 material (given in week 9)

For Week 6, please read:

• Biology of Plants: Ch. 19, Ch. 26
• College Physics: Ch 5.3, 16.1
• Life of a Leaf: Ch. 11-12 (read as part of physics reading)

Week 6 Schedule:

• due by 6 pm, Mon. May 2 via WebAssign: Physics Problem Set 5.
• due by 1 pm, Tue. May 3: Bring to class (have electronic access to) a copy of your current Academic Statement or Orientation Essay. If you don’t have an Academic Statement or Orientation Essay, email Krishna for options. If you have a laptop, bring it; we will meet in CAL West so it’s no problem if you don’t have a laptop.
• due by 9 am, Wed. May 4: Review feedback on individual blog post drafts which you are peer reviewing. See link to revisions guide at this post. Bring to class your written constructive feedback for the authors you are reviewing as well as marked up edits of their individual blog post printouts.
• due by 9 am, Fri. May 6: Group Project Progress Summary posted to group blog. This updates and extends the Group Project Proposal, incorporating feedback on proposals and from group project check-in meetings, as well as updates to include current status of project work.
• UPCOMING WEEK 7 MONDAY MAY 9 by 5 pm: Revised Individual Blog Post posted to group blog for faculty review.

• 9 am, Tue. May 3. Sem 2 B1105: Botany Quiz; Botany Lecture.
• 1 pm, Tue. May 3. Class meets in CAL West. Academic Planning and Academic Statement Workshop.
• 9 am, Wed. May 4. Lab 1 2046: Physics Quiz; Physics Lecture; Individual Blog Post peer review.
• 9 am, Thu. May 5. Lab 1 1040: Botany Lab; Physics Lab
• 9 am, Fri. May 6. Sem 2 B1107: Physics Workshop (attempt all of Physics Problem Set 6 problems in your Problem Set Notebook before workshop; Weekly Wrap.