Work+Day+1+Lesson+Plan

2-15-2010 TA: A .Lackey
 * __Work Day 1: Writing Proposal, Scientific Writing, Statistics Exercise__**

Prior to class: - Announce: I e-mailed students graded Adaptation proposals to all group members - Pass back quizzes


 * 1) Go over Quiz (5 min)**
 * Go over most commonly missed questions

Today we will:
 * 2) Objectives & Activities (1 min)**
 * Understand how to write a proposal through discussion & critique
 * Check our understanding of 3 statistical tests in an exercise with pre-collected data. You’ll practice using all 3 tests we’ve talked about thus far.
 * Make progress toward completing the group research project proposal


 * 3) Scientific writing PPT (10 min)**
 * give overview of sci paper
 * construction
 * use someone’s project idea (or have class generate novel question or hypothesis)
 * construct intro using inverted triangle
 * Methods – enough detail that someone could replicate, but nothing unnecessary, use articles from article analysis & example proposal to help


 * 4) Discuss proposal (20 min)**
 * discuss your reactions in your groups for 5 min
 * then we will go through each section, identifying room for improvement
 * Each group reports out on 1 thing you liked & 1 thing you didn’t like and why, and we’ll go around 2-3 times. Each time, someone who hasn’t spoken should share
 * Use pages 143-144 for more info on what goes in each section


 * 5) Hand back graded article analyses (5 min)**
 * Discuss big picture of how to use feedback to inform the rest of the project
 * Give overview of most common pitfalls
 * Compliment them on what they did well

(students seemed to take longer than we thought they would. They have lots of questions and confusion)
 * 6) Statistics exercise (45+ min)**

(some groups will leave to complete work outside of class at another time. Encourage groups to stay for feedback from TA)
 * 7) Work on group proposal (remaining time ~1hr)**


 * 8) Announcements (1 min)**
 * Proposals due when you come to class
 * Read Lab #10: Functional Response. Pages 102-110.