Welcome to Plants in Motion, and our program web-site. There’s a great deal of information that has been posted here recently, so here’s a quick summary; each item below is a link to more info, so please click on each link as you need, or just explore the site.

• Academic Fair Handout
• Welcome Letter
• Student Survey
• First Class Meeting and Class Schedule
• Week 1 Reading Assignment
• Lab Safety Quiz info
• Van Drivers for field trips

Please read our Welcome Letter, which you can find using the navigation menu above or by clicking here.

(note: if you have completed a Lab Safety Quiz this academic year – that means fall 2015 or winter 2106 – you do not need to complete it again)

Your Lab Safety Quiz needs to be completed by 9 am Thu. March 31 since we have lab that morning. Here are instructions for accessing the Lab Safety Quiz:
-Go to the website canvas.evergreen.edu
-Login through the CAS system using your evergreen username and password.
-Choose the course Science Support for Academics 2015-2016
-Follow the instructions
-Click on the link for the Lab Safety Introduction.
-Read the Lab Safety Introduction; continue by clicking Next at the bottom right.
-Open the Lab Safety Handbook (this will open in a new tab or ask you to download the pdf).
-Return to the canvas site and click the Next button.
-Read the instructions carefully and Take the Quiz. You may use the Handbook to answer questions on the quiz.
–All questions must be answered correctly to access the lab spaces. You may repeat this quiz as many times as needed.
-If you have any questions, please contact our program SIT (Science Instructional Technician) Jenna Nelson (neljen@evergreen.edu).

For the first day of class, please read the following:

• Biology of Plants, Chapter 1
• College Physics, Chapter 1 (available at https://openstaxcollege.org/textbooks/college-physics)

Before our class meeting on Wednesday March 30, please read:

• Biology of Plants, Chapter 3

Before our first lab on Thursday March 31, please:

• complete the Lab Safety Quiz (info here)
• Read over Botany Lab 1 (available here, includes both Botany Lab 1 and Botany Lab 2, so you just need to read over pages 1 – 8); no need to print out your own copy – we’ll provide a printed version to you on the first day of class.

We look forward to meeting you for our first class meeting!

Our mandatory first class meeting begins promptly at 9:00 am Tuesday March 29 in Sem 2 B1105 (the Seminar 2 complex, building B, room 1105).

Registered students who are not present at that time and have not contacted us in advance will be dropped to make room for students hoping to join.

We will be going on two local field trips this quarter (to a botanical Conservatory in Tacoma and to a local prairie near Tenino, WA) and will need a few students to volunteer to drive vans. If any of you are willing or interested in driving on field trips, you can visit the Evergreen motor pool website for details on how to obtain your Evergreen Vehicle Use Permit: http://www.evergreen.edu/motorpool/ and scroll down for the link for Vehicle Use Permit. If you already have a current Vehicle Use Permit and are willing to drive on field trips, please let us know.

Standard schedule of class meeting times and locations:

You can find our handout from Academic Fair by clicking here.