First Week of IB Biology!!

This is what you can expect in the first week and a day of IB Biology!!

• Thurs 8/27:  Intro to class, fill out student information sheet, demonstrate Early Work, hand out Safety and Academic Honesty contracts (due back signed by Friday, 9/4!), basic class rules, start Brine Shrimp Lab by counting cysts and hydrating them with 3% salt water.  On your own, please read the Classroom Expectations in the document section of this site.  Please bring a TI-84 calculator or equivalent to class on Monday!
• Mon 8/31:  Continue with Brine Shrimp lab by counting the live shrimp and calculating percent hatched.  Discuss how to calculate uncertainty.  Finish Brine Shrimp Lab calculations, showing work.  Use the TI-84 calculators to calculate means, standard deviations, and t-test.  Complete TI-84 hand-out (on the back of the Brine Shrimp hand-out).  This double-sided hand-out is due Wed 9/2 at the beginning of class (actually you will have about 20 minutes to complete it).
• Wed 9/2:  Go over standard deviation, degrees of freedom and t-tests.  Turn in Brine Shrimp and TI-84 Hand-Out.  Rules for significant figures.  Do problems 1-17 on Sig Figs and Uncertainty Worksheet and complete the back.   Introduce LoggerPro and how to use it to make a good graph.  Using the classroom computers, EVERYONE will practice making a good graph and get it checked off by myself.  If time go over rules for propagating uncertainty (for problems 21-25 on worksheet).
• Fri 9/4:  Signed contracts due today if not turned in already.  Finish Sig. Figs and Uncertainty worksheet and turn it in.  First 2 pages of statistics packet.  Make a frequency distribution graph.  Do sample calculations for standard deviation and t-test.  Statistics Packet due in class next Tuesday 9/8.  Quiz on using numbers in biology next Friday 9/11.