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

For Week 8, please read:

• Biology of Plants: Ch. 27, Ch. 28
• College Physics: see Week 8 Physics Reading

Week 8 Schedule:

• (over)due by 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.
• due by 5 pm Mon. May 16 via group blog: Updated Group Project Research post (in anticipation of detailed discussion with faculty during Tuesday Science Skills Workshop).
• due by 9 am, Wed. May 18, in class: Quiz 4 Revisions. See this post for details. While revisions for Quizzes 1 – 3 were due last week, I will accept them at the same time as the Quiz 4 Revisions. No Quiz Revisions will be accepted past their posted due dates after this time.
• due by 9 am, Thu. May 19, in class: Group Project Participation Evaluation. Details in Tuesday’s class.

• 9 am, Tue. May 17. Class meets in Lab 1 2046: Botany Quiz; Botany Lecture; prep for Thursday tropism lab.
• 1 pm, Tue. May 17. Class meets in CAL West: Science Skills Workshop – scientific communication (project groups each workshop with faculty on Group Project Research blog post).
• 9 am, Wed. May 18. Lab 1 2046: Physics Quiz; Physics Lecture, PLANT WALK at 11 am.
• 9 am, Thu. May 19. Lab 1 1040: Botany & Physics Lab.
• 1 pm, Thu. May 19. Class meets in CAL West: Group Project Time.
• 9 am, Fri. May 20. Sem 2 B1107: Physics Workshop; Weekly Wrap.

As decided during the Week 7 Friday Wrap, we’ll study gravity in week 8 and quantum physics in week 9. To study gravity, we’ll also need to study forces more generally. The physics reading assignment for week 8 is:

• Chapter 4.
  • Intro: read
  • 4.1: read
  • 4.2: read
  • 4.3: read
  • 4.4: SKIP
  • 4.5: read about Normal Force, but stop at Example 4.5
  • 4.6: SKIP; just look at chapter summary on this section
  • 4.7: SKIP
  • 4.8: read
• Chapter 6
  • Intro: ready
  • 6.1: read
  • 6.2: read
  • 6.3: read, but stop at Example 6.4
  • 6.4: SKIP
  • 6.5: read
  • 6.6: SKIP

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!

Physics Problem Set 6 solutions

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.

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.