User:ASnieckus/Intro biology

Intro biology
/PLC biology syllabus/

Original offering: Intro biology labs
Course held Feb 2011 to May 2011 for high school students who do not attend school.

The following sections include notes describing the labs performed.

Students: Stephanie, Ted, Julian, and Fatimah

Listing of biology labs

Lab sessions

 * Lab 1: Diffusion and osmosis (Feb 21)


 * Lab 2: Investigating the action of 6 enzymes (Feb 28)


 * Lab 3: DNA extraction (Mar 7)

Introduction session (Feb 9)

 * Background: discuss with students how they are studying biology. Discuss whether students have studied or plan to study the following:
 * Cell biology
 * Respiration
 * Photosynthesis
 * Molecular genetics
 * Cell reproduction
 * Mendelian genetics and mutation
 * Population genetics and evolution
 * Animal systems and homeostasis


 * Labs:
 * Pre-read background material and lab procedure
 * Organize into two sets of pairs
 * Perform lab
 * Lab write-up -- discuss report specs (copy for each)
 * Feedback on lab report


 * Organization: discuss options for communication of meetings, prep work, feedback....email, moodle, google docs


 * Issues:
 * Dissection - one of the labs we could do could be a fetal pig dissection. Any interest?
 * Microscope - I have one, but it will be useful to have another for some labs. Anyone have access to one they could bring?