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Biology 615: Special Topics for High School / Middle

School Biology Teachers

Description and Objectives: This course is designed to give an introduction to the topics covered in Middle and High School Biology classes, as aligned with the S.C. science standards. Specifically, the course will cover inquiry, cells, ecology, environment, evolution, DNA, genetics, and energetics / thermodynamics. By covering this material, teachers should gain an understanding of the role biological sciences play in technology and nature. In addition, an emphasis will be placed upon inquiry-based lessons, place-based lessons, and laboratories that will incorporate content. These approaches will help teachers prepare their students for the end of course test (EOCT) in biology and the PASS science test.

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Dates and Times: The class will meet on Mondays – Fridays from 9:00 am – 5:00 pm. The specific dates (June 11 – June 29, 2012) are included on the attached course schedule. Class meetings will take place in Leatherman Science Facility room 201 at Francis Marion University for the first 2 weeks and at ScienceSouth the last week. Content-based lectures will occur from 9:00 – 10:30 am, Labs from 11:00 am -12:30 pm, Lunch (provided) from 12:30-1:30 pm, Labs 1:30 – 4:00 pm and 4:00-5:00 will include discussions on standards, EOCT, assessment, and inquiry-based learning.

|Instructors: |Grades: |

|Lisa Pike / LPike@fmarion.edu |* Laboratory |

|Associate Professor of Biology |Participation 45% |

|Department of Biology, |* Quizzes 20% |

|Francis Marion University |* Lesson Plan 10% |

|Office: Leatherman Science Facility 204 D |* Post-test 20% |

|Phone: (843) 661-1411 |* Attendance 5% |

|Steve Welch / stephen@ | |

|ScienceSouth at Freedom Florence
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|1511 Freedom Blvd.
      |You must pass the post-test to pass the course. |

|Florence, SC 29505 |A 85-100 B 75-84 C 65-74 F < 64 |

|Phone: (843) 679-5353 | |

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|Janis McWayne, Evaluator. FMU School of Education. 661-1437. | |

|JMcwayne@fmarion.edu | |

Laboratory: The majority of class meetings will include significant hands-on laboratory time. These experiments will be a mixture of K8-12 labs and college biological science labs. Participation is essential.

Quizzes: Three short quizzes consisting primarily of multiple choice and short answer questions will be given on the dates listed on the course schedule. A main purpose of the quiz is to provide instructor feedback on the concepts that have been covered. Any confusion can then be addressed. A pre-test and post-test will also be given. Only the post-test will count towards your grade.

Lesson Plan: Teachers will prepare 1 lesson as a lesson plan, ready to implement. These will be shared with the class via flash drive.

Biology 615 Syllabus Requirements

Attendance: No absences are allowed, except in the case of emergencies. If a student is absent more than 15% (missing or tardy over 12 hours or 1.5 days) of the total number of class meetings, the course instructor has the right to withdraw the student from the course with an “F”. The instructor may choose to allow students to make up class time to avoid being withdrawn from the course; however, this is solely the discretion of the instructor. Class make up time must be scheduled with the instructor ahead of time, at his convenience, and must be supervised by the instructor.

Tardiness: Students are expected to be in class at the beginning of the stated class time (9:00 am). Excessive tardiness may result in a student being dropped from a class by the instructor.

Grade Reports: Francis Marion University grade reports are available on-line. Near the end of the course, your instructor will provide you with a printed copy of the directions for accessing your grades on line or your instructor will e-mail the directions to you. If you do not have access to the Internet/World Wide Web, please visit the Francis Marion University Office of the Registrar on campus (Stokes Administration Building, Room 118) to sign a grade request form and a printed grade report will be mailed to you.

Course and Instructor Evaluations: Every semester students are provided the opportunity to evaluate each course and its instructor so that educational quality may be maintained and enhanced. All students are encouraged to respond to the evaluation with honesty, sincerity, and a sense of confidentiality.

The evaluation is administered during class time with the instructor leaving the room while a designated student hands out and then collects the forms. This student also delivers the sealed envelope containing the completed forms to the district office or the contracting agency office for mailing to Francis Marion University. These evaluations are completely anonymous and faculty do not receive any feedback until grades have been turned in to the Registrar. Upon noting that these procedures of evaluation have not been followed, a student may contact the Office of the Provost at (843) 661-1286 in order to confidentially inform the administration of such failure to follow procedures.

Your Day:

9:00 am - 12:30 pm Lecture and Lab activities

10:30 am - Break (10 min)

12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Lunch (provided: Faculty Cottage M-TH; Pizza Friday)

1:30 pm - 4:00 pm Lab activities

3:30 pm - Break (10 min)

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Discussion

Field Trips: The intention is to implement Place-Based Education.

i. Project Learning Tree Training (PreK-8) on FMU campus Wednesday June 12 (10:15 – 4:30 am). We will be spending some time outdoors. Certification included.

ii. ScienceSouth on-site Field Trip on Wednesday and Thursday June 27th and 28th (9:00 am) *Outside - bug spray! We’ll be walking to the woods and pond to do water quality, pond organisms, and forest tree diversity (Species / Area curves).

Campus Housing: The intention is that this is a commuter course. However, due to past experience we are offering some campus housing. If you choose to stay on campus in student housing you will forfeit the $500 stipend given upon course completion. In other words, the $500 will be used to pay for housing for the three weeks. Housing is in the student apartments, with private rooms but a shared bath / kitchen / living space. We will make every effort to pair you with a teacher and not an undergraduate student taking summer classes. Lunches on Monday – Friday are paid for as a part of the course but you will be responsible for your own breakfast and dinner. Please let us know with your application if you need housing.

|Date | Topic |Labs / Standards |

|2011 | | |

|Monday June 11 |Inquiry |Inquiry Lab (She turned me into a newt|

|Standard B-1 and B-3 & | |(I got better) |

|7th grade (7-1, 7-3) |9:00 Intro to Course / Syllabus |Inquiry Lab (Storytelling Graph) |

| |Pre-test / Pre-Survey / Parking | |

| |Stickers etc. |Calorimetry (B-1, B-3) |

| |10:30 Lecture: Into to Inquiry, Data | |

| |Collection, Graphing |Discuss: Water transport in plants: |

| | |an exercise in experimental design |

| |1:30 Inquiry Labs | |

| |3:00 Calorimetry Lab | |

| |4:00 Discussion: SC standards support system (S3) and 7th | |

| |grade applied biology standards | |

|Tues. June 12 |Project Learning Tree Certification - |* Some outside work |

|Standard B-6 |Ecology and Environment | |

|& 7-4 | | |

| |Box Lunch Provided | |

|Wed. June 13 |Chemistry (Enzymes) & Cells |cheek cells, Elodea plasmolysis & |

|Standard B-2 | |cytoplasmic streaming, stomata, onion,|

|& 7-2 |9:00 Lecture: cells and cell chemistry |pollen tube, termites (B-2.1-2.4) |

| | |cell size lab (surface area to volume |

| |10:00 Cell labs |ratio) (B-2) |

| | |Enzyme (Spit) lab, lactose & milk |

| |1:00 Enzyme Labs |digestion, germinating seeds and |

| | |enzymes (B-2.7, B-2.8) |

| |4:00 9-12 biology standards / Applied Biology and EOCT Q&A | |

|Thurs. June 14 |Enzymes, Membranes, Diffusion and Osmosis * |Enzymes and Catalase (Yeast) (B-2.7, |

| |indicator solutions |B-2.8) |

|Standard B-2 & B-4 & 7-2.4| |Osmosis and Diffusion labs (B-2.5) |

| |9:00 finish enzyme labs |Electrophoresis (B-2 and B-4) |

| |10:30 Lecture: osmosis | |

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| |1:30 Osmosis labs | |

| |3:30 Diffusion (agar) | |

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| |4:00 PASS testing and 7th grade Standards (biology) | |

|Fri. June 15 |Energetics / Photosynthesis / Cell Respiration (Probeware) |Molasses and yeast demo, measuring yeast|

| |9:00 Lecture – Energetics |fermentation, bromythol blue and Elodea,|

|Standard B-3 | |CO2 production in seeds, cricket |

|& 7-2.4 |10:30 Respiration labs (mealworms, plants, yeast) |respiration (B-3.2) |

| |1:00 Finish Respiration Labs | |

|6th grade | |Vernier probes for animal |

| |2:00 Photosynthesis (chlorophyll / lycopene extraction / |respiration(mealworms) (B -3.2) |

| |absorption) | |

| | |Paperclip Pedagogy |

| |3:00 Plant Respiration | |

| | |Pasco probes for Photosynthesis / Plant |

| |4:00 Pascal and Vernier Probes in the Classroom (motion, CO2) |respiration (B-3.1) |

|Mon. June 18 |Dr. Vernon Bauer’s models for DNA Replication, Transcription, |Plants and Transpiration; Transpiration |

| |Translation |with Probes (B-1; B-3) |

|QUIZ 1 | | |

| |9:00 QUIZ 1 |DNA models |

|Standard B-4 & 7-2.5 |9:30 Plants and Transpiration |(B-4.1-4.4) |

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|Standard B-6 & 7-4.3 |11:00 Lecture: Transcription and Translation |DNA Dry Labs (B-4) |

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|and 6th grade |1:00 DNA Repl / Transc/ Transl models |Protein Bracelet (B-4) |

| |2:30 DNA Dry Labs | |

| | |Brine Shrimp Behavior (6th & B-1, B-6.1,|

| |3:00 Brine Shrimp and Habitat Preference |B-6.2, B-6.6) |

| |4:00 NCCSTS Case Studies | |

|Tues. June 19 |Evolution |Co-evolution and Natural Selection |

| | |(B-5.1 - 5.4) |

|Standard B-5 & 7-2.6 and |9:00 Lecture – MicroEvolution | |

|&-2.7 | |Agents of Evolution (Beans) (B-5.1-5.4)|

| |10:00 Evolution Labs | |

|Standards B-1, B-2, B-3, | |Caminacules (B-5.7) |

|B-4 |1:00 Phylogeny and Caminacules |Animal Diversity (6th) |

| | |Dichotomous Key |

|7th grade |2:30 Taxonomy and Dichotomous Keys | |

|8th grade |3:30 Animal Diversity |Plant Game Inquiry (B-1, B-6.2, B-6.5;|

| | |7-4.5) |

| |4:00 Plant Game: How to use Games in Biology Lab to Collect / | |

| |Graph Data | |

|Wed. June 20 |Ecology |Mark Recapture Lab (B-6) |

| |9:00 Lecture – Population Ecology, | |

|Standards B-6 |Species Interactions |Survivorship lab (Type I curves) |

| |11:00 Mark-Recapture Lab |(B-6.2) |

|6th-7th grade | | |

| |1:00 Survivorship Lab |Biodiversity of Insects 6th-8th, B-5 |

| |2:30 Blacklighting for Insects | |

| | |UV beads: Inquiry (B-1, 6th-8th) |

| |3:30 Environment and Behavior: UV Beads, Parental Care | |

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| |4:00 Place-Based Education | |

|Thurs. June 21 |Ecology, Energy / Nutrient Flow in Ecosystems |Species diversity in a forest (B |

|* Outside | |6.1-6.3) (Outside) |

| |9:00 Species Richness / Area curves | |

|Standard B-3, B-5, B-6 | |Predation lab |

|and 7-4 |11:00 Lecture – Community Ecology, |(B-6.1, B-3.6) |

| |Species Interactions | |

| | |Overfishing Lab (Tragedy of the Commons)|

| |2:00 Predation Lab, Mimicry Lab |7-4.6; B6.6 |

| |3:00 Overfishing Lab | |

| | |Mimicry (B-5) |

| |4:00 AP Biology / Rubrics / Assessment | |

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|Fri. June 22 |Mitosis, Meiosis, Mendelian Genetics |Mitosis / Meiosis Beads / Corn |

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|Standard B-4, B-5 & 7-2.5 |9:00 lecture – Mitosis, Meiosis Mendelian Genetics (Corn and |Concord Consortium Dragon Genetics |

| |Beads to Demo) |(B-4.5 & B-4.6) |

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| |11:00 Dragon Genetics: Concord Consortium program (free-ware) |Dragon Genetics B-4; 7th grade (popsicle|

| | |sticks: Mendel) |

| |4:00 Science South Implementation Discussion / Planning | |

|Monday June 25 |** Monday – Thursday all activities will be held at Science |Marvels of Mitosis (B-4) |

| |South. Please arrive promptly by 9 am. Afternoons will be spent| |

|QUIZ 2 |practicing / implementing the lessons with middle school kids. |Genes in a Bottle (B-4) |

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|Standards B-4, B-5, and B-1|9:00 Quiz 2 |Human Body Systems |

|& 7-2 | | |

| |Mitosis / Meiosis | |

| |9:30 Genetics: Cell Division, Mitosis | |

|6th grade | | |

| |11:00 Genes in a Bottle | |

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| |1:00 Human Body Systems (model hand, ear, lung) | |

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| |3:00 Hidden Sugars / Tooth Decay | |

|Tuesday June 268 |Biotechnology |DNA Extraction (B-4) |

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|Standard B-4 |9:00 DNA Extraction (Strawberry) |Gel electrophoresis (fingerprinting) |

|& 7-2 |10:30 Gel electrophoresis lab (Fingerprinting) |(B-4.9, B-2.5) |

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| |1:00 Lesson Implementation (genes in bottle / human body | |

| |systems) | |

|Wednesday June 27 (Outside)|Ecology / Plant Biology *Outside |Outside: Plant ID / Nature Walk |

| | |(B-5 & 6th grade) |

|Standard B-6 & 7-4 & 6-2 |9:00 Flower / Seed dissection & Plant ID, Nature Walk | |

| | |Flowers Fruits and Seeds (6th) |

| |1:00 Lesson Implementation (DNA extr / electrophoresis) | |

|Thursday June 28 (outside) |Ecology (Watersheds) *Outside |Outside: Water Quality and Microaquaria|

| | |(B-6 / 6th-7th grade) |

|Standard B-6 |9:00 Microaquaria and Water Quality Analyses with Aquatic | |

|& 7-4 & 6-3 |Macroinvertebrates | |

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| |1:00 Lesson Implementation (sugars – teeth / plant ID & flower| |

| |– seed dissection) | |

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| |4:30 Review for Quiz / Post Test | |

|Friday June 29 |9:00 am Francis Marion University | |

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|QUIZ 3 |Individual conferences, evaluations, quiz, post–test, surveys. | |

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|Post-Test |Throughout the Day: Individual Post- Interviews | |

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