Welcome to Biology 102!
• Please pick up a syllabus (if you don’t
have one yet) and a clicker at the front
desk. You will need to rent a clicker from
the bookstore by the end of this week.
• Your instructor: Dr. Bledsoe
• Office: NS 220
• Email: bledsoek@wou.edu
Textbooks
• Audesirk, Audesirk, & Byers
Biology: Life on Earth, 9th Edition,
WOU Custom edition Volume 2.
• Labs: Find your Moodle lab page
to download lab materials and to
take pre-lab quizzes.
Your grade comes from:
• Class activities
and term project
(~60 points)
• Midterms (4 x 45
points)
• Final exam (130
points)
• Lab (155 points)
Lab grade comes from:
• Class participation:
• Online prelab
• In-class participation
• Weekly lab quizzes.
• 2 written reports.
• Lowest lab grade will be
dropped at the end of the
term.
Lab attendance policy
• If you miss 3 or more labs (=
more than 2 labs), you
automatically fail lab.
• If you fail lab, you
automatically fail the course.
• If you must make up a lab,
you must see Dr.
Baumgartner and arrange a
different lab time if possible.
Academic honesty
• The short version: Don’t cheat.
• Plagiarism means turning in an
assignment that is made up
mostly or entirely of words that
someone else wrote. Don’t to it.
• Department policy: 0 on the
assignment AND reporting to
Student Conduct Committee.
Electronics policy:
• NO use of handheld
electronics in class, including
cell phones and translators.
• Computers: Only in the back
row. Computer screens are
distracting to others.
• Any use of electronics during
exams will be considered
cheating.
What can I do about my grade?
• Attend class. In Bi 100 classes there is a significant
correlation between attendance and final grades.
Come to class prepared, with a printout of the class
notes.
• Study, using the provided study guides. There is a
significant correlation between study habits and Bi
100 test scores. Schedule two hours of study time for
every hour in lecture, and begin studying intensively
for exams about 1 week before. Use active study
techniques to get the best return for your time.
Passive learning
Passive
learning
happens
when you just
sit and listen,
and hope you
remember
later.
Your Brain
Most people
retain less
than 10% of
what they
learn through
passive
learning.
Learning is an active process. Your professor can teach
but can’t do the learning for you!
Active Learning
Active
learning is
when you
interact with
the material
in many
different
ways.
Active study
helps learners
retain up to
90% of the
material that
they’re
working with.
Active Study Ideas
Make concept maps.
Use interactive online
tutorials.
Diagram the concept.
Take good
notes in
lecture AND
while
reading the
textbook.
PLTL
• Peer-Led Team Learning is an optional,
no-cost 2-hour evening workshop led by
students who have succeeded in the Bi
100 series.
• You do enroll in PLTL as you would a
regular course. There is a P/NP grade
assigned.
• This is a “Work Together” question.
When you see these, think about the
question and write a response. You can
work with a neighbor if you like.
W
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K
• Weekly quiz questions will be based on
Daily Work questions and clicker
questions. Some of these will preview
quiz and exam questions as well.
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E
T
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• However, these questions will not appear
in the notes that you download. You
must come to class for these questions.
Clickers!
• You will need to rent a
TurningPoint response card,
a.k.a. a “clicker,” from the
bookstore.
• I pick random days each week
to record participation based
on clicker responses.
• We will also have practice
quizzes using clickers.
Register your clicker
• The TurningPoint system
only detects the ID
number of your clicker.
• To assign your name to
your clicker ID number, I
need everyone to
register their clickers
using the link on Moodle.
Setting the clicker channel
• To set your clickers to channel 21:
• Press “Ch”
• Press “2”
• Press “1”
• Press “Ch”
This is a clicker question. Have you
used clickers before?
1. Yes.
2. No.
3. I can’t remember.
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The person in charge of making
learning happen in your head is:
1. You, the student.
2. Me, the professor.
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2
How many midterms do we have
this term?
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
None
One
Two
Three
Four
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5
When does the end-of-week quiz
CLOSE each week?
1. 5:00 Friday evening
2. 8:00 Monday
morning
3. 8:00 Monday
evening
4. Never
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When should you do your pre-lab quiz?
1. By Sunday midnight
before the lab.
2. By midnight the day
before the lab.
3. Any time before the
lab.
4. Any time during the
term.
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You will automatically fail lab if you
miss MORE than ___labs.
1.
2.
3.
4.
One
Two
Three
Four
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True or false: There are study guides
for each chapter on Moodle.
1. True
2. False
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What are you allowed to do with cell
phones in class?
1. Answer them and
have long
conversations.
2. Text quietly under
the desk or behind
your backpack.
3. Turn them off and
put them completely
away.
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What does “put your cell phone away”
look like?
1. Silence it and set it
beside you on the
desk.
2. Put it in your lap.
3. Put it in your
backpack, purse,
pocket or other place
where you can’t see it
or be distracted by it.
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