Journals for Ch 1

Journal One Chapter One
1. What are some areas in your life that biology has affected?
2. What are some major branches within the biology field that you are familiar with. Example…evolution
3. What are some important characteristics you think a scientist must have?
4. What are some characteristics you think something must have in order to be classified as living.




Journal 2 Ch 1
1. Looking in the textbook please list the major fields biologist tend to focus their area of study in.
2. Looking in the textbook, give an example of each of the characteristics of life
3. Get out your HW notebooks and record your HW…it will be on the board

Take out your HW so I can come around and check it while your journal/announcements are on…

Journal 3 Ch 1
Make the following conversions using your conversion chart…you will come up and show your process
1. 5 ml into nl
2. 5678 kg into g
3. 21.2384 nm into m
Journal 4 Chapter One
1. Take out your characteristics of life WS so I can check while your
2. Give an example of some data you might be asked to keep track of in an experiment and provide examples of qualitative and quantitative data you would keep.

Journal 4 Ch 1
Take out your HW so I can come around and check it while your journal/announcements are on…
1) What is one frustrating thing you encountered when you used your book DVD
2) What are some cool discoveries you found when using your book DVD that the class might want to know?



Journal 5 Ch 1
Make the following conversions using your conversion chart…you will come up and show your process
1. 5 ml into nl
2. 5678 kg into g
3. 21.2384 nm into m





Journal 6 Ch 1
Turn in your worm labs
Turn in your graphing labs and metric ws

Decide which of the following are independent and independent variables….






Example 1
A researcher wanted to study the effects of sleep deprivation on physical coordination. The researcher selected 25 year-old male college students and deprived some of the subjects to either 24, 36, or 45 hours of sleep.
1) In the present study the independent variable was:
a) the length of time the subjects were deprived of sleep. b) the age of the subjects. c) the gender of the subjects. d) the physical coordination skills of the subjects.

2) In the present study the dependent variable was:
a) the length of time the subjects were deprived of sleep. b) the age of the subjects. c) the gender of the subjects. d) the physical coordination skills of the subjects.

















Example 2
An investigator had 60 subjects watch a videotaped re-enactment of a bank robbery. Half of the subjects were asked by a police investigator to recall the event, while the remaining subjects were interviewed by a police investigator while they were hypnotized.
3) In the present study the independent variable was:
a) whether a police investigator was used. b) whether subjects were hypnotized. c) how much subjects recalled. d) what subjects watched.

4) In the present study the dependent variable was:

a) whether a police investigator was used. b) whether subjects were hypnotized. c) how much subjects recalled. d) what subjects watched.

Journal 7 ch1
1) Define the following terms and provide an example…
a. Data
b. Hypothesis
c. Experiment
d. Theory
e. conclusion
2) How would you explain the difference between observation and inference to your younger sibling
3) What are two types of observations we can make…think the cheetoo lab!













Journal 8 ch1
1) The following are measurements of the area of a cube:
a. 5cm long
b. 10cm wide
c. 3 cm height
Calculate the volume in meters cubed!
2) How do you know how many mg 1 ml of water is if it is 4 degrees celcius?

Next Class:
You have an exam, binder checks (see BLOG) reading questions due, chapter assessment due. Make sure to record student data for number 21 before you leave class. ALSO make sure your reading essentials are done!