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!

• Post your preliminary project ideas, each with 2 reliable references, at this forum.
• First, view the post “Instructions – READ ME FIRST”.
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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!

Some reminders about Week 2:

• Botany lecture starts at 9 am Tue. Apr. 5 in Sem 2 B1105 with a Quiz on week 1 material.
  • For the quiz, review week 1 botany reading assignment, Botany Lecture 1 and Lecture 2 slides and your lecture notes, the Botany Lab 1 study questions, and Botany Worksheet 1 (key).
  • There is also a reading assignment to prepare: Biology of Plants Ch 27.
• Physics lecture starts at 1 pm Tue. Apr. 5 in Sem 2 B1107 with a Quiz on Week 1 material (note the non-standard physics lecture day/time, due to Wednesday’s Day of Absence).
  • For the quiz, review week 1 physics reading assignment, your lecture notes, Physics Lab 1, and especially Physics Problem Set#1 (solutions).
  • There is also a reading assignment to prepare: College Physics, Ch 25 (skip 25.7), Ch 26.4.
• Wed. Apr. 6 is Day of Absence, with both on-campus and off-campus events. No class meeting. Day of Presence is Fri. Apr. 8 – we will have our morning class meetings, but there are afternoon and evening events you might be interested in.
• Due by 5 pm Wed. Apr. 6: Preliminary Project Ideas posted. Before class on Friday, look over the posted ideas to see any overlaps and start contacting each other to form groups.
• Lab begins at 9 am Thu. Apr. 7 in Lab 1 1040. Prepare for Botany Lab 2 by reading handout, prepping Lab Notebook, and answering Study Questions. No need to prepare particularly for Physics Lab 2, but if you have a smart phone with a camera, bring it with you to class in order to build your smart phone microscope.
• Physics Workshop begins at 9 am Fri. Apr. 8 in Sem 2 B1107. Attempt all of Physics Problem Set#2 problems (available after Physics Lecture) before Physics Workshop; include in your Physics Problem Set Notebook.
• For the Weekly Wrap on Fri. Apr. 8, complete the Popular Science Writing Workshop before class and bring it with you .

• Bring your completed Field Trip forms to turn in to Lalita as soon as possible.
• Finalize your partner and sign up for the Innovators in Botany and Physics assignment presentation slots.

PIM_Lecture 2_The Plant Cell

• You can download the first Physics Problem Set (due Mon. April 4 at 6 pm via WebAssign) here. For this first assignment, I will provide you a paper copy during Thursday’s class (I don’t plan to provide paper versions for you in the future; you are welcome to print out for yourself if you’d like). You can also see the Problem Set on WebAssign itself.
• You can find information about enrolling in WebAssign here.
• You will notice that the downloadable, printable version has some answers provided. Some problems in WebAssign have randomized variables, which means that the numbers in your online version of the problem will be different than your classmates, and from the printable version. This gives you the opportunity to work closely with classmates and tutors as you are figuring out how to do the problem but then to check for yourself what you have learned to do by applying your skills and knowledge to a customized version of the problem.

You can find a tentative schedule of the readings, assignments, activities, etc. for Weeks 1 – 3 here.

Dear students,

As part of our discussion of unconscious bias on Wednesday, we would like you to take part in an online “test” called “The Implicit Association Test (IAT)”, which….”measures attitudes and beliefs that people may be unwilling or unable to report. The IAT may be especially interesting if it shows that you have an implicit attitude that you did not know about. For example, you may believe that women and men should be equally associated with science, but your automatic associations could show that you (like many others) associate men with science more than you associate women with science.”- IAT website

You can find the test at the following link:

https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html

It will take you 5-10 minutes to complete. Please complete it before class on Wednesday.

You may choose any one of the tests on this page to find out more about your unconscious biases. Please keep in mind that we all have biases and it’s part of human nature. The test is completely anonymous and no one in the class (including faculty) will see your results. And if you’re wondering how this relates to ecology, remember that as scientists, we are working to develop and test hypothesis without bias (remaining objective), so this is a skill we should all be working on! On Friday we will talk about our experience taking the test in small groups.

In case you’re wondering about who created this particular IAT, here is a blurb from their website or read their “about page” for more detail:

“Project Implicit is a non-profit organization and international collaboration between researchers who are interested in implicit social cognition – thoughts and feelings outside of conscious awareness and control. The goal of the organization is to educate the public about hidden biases and to provide a “virtual laboratory” for collecting data on the Internet.”

See you all tomorrow!