Comparing+Populations+Lesson+Plan

3-15-2010 TA: A .Lackey  Prior to class: - Pass back graded Estimating Populations in-class exercises & quizzes  Today we will:  Mon – I give presentation, Tue – Kay/Barb gives presentation (likely takes longer than 25min)  //(Presentation likely includes use of long-term data sets and intro to use of MaNIS) //   Or instead of testing 2nd question, they can just develop Q/H/P. 
 * __<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Comparing Populations. Lab 11 __**<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">
 * <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">1) Objectives & Activities, and prep to go to museum (5 min) **
 * <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Become familiar with exploring long-term data sets
 * <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Test hypotheses using long-term data sets
 * <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Understand the benefits and limitations of long-term data sets
 * <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">2) Museum / Presentations (1hr 10 min) **
 * <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Walk to MSU museum (10 min)
 * <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Half of group gets museum tour; other half gets presentation on long-term data sets (25 min)
 * <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Groups swap (25 min)
 * <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Return to classroom (10 min)
 * <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">3) Students collect data from MaNIS – Sex Ratio Question (45 min) **
 * <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">briefly review MaNIS & explain directions
 * <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">walk through of using MaNIS
 * <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">show students tutorial of Pivot Table (show link in ANGEL, so they can watch again)
 * <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">go over Chi-square calculator & how to use
 * <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">4) Students test new question (30 min) **
 * <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">based on experience with sex ratio, students hypothesize new question
 * <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">test using different museum collections
 * <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">write conclusions
 * <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">on separate sheet, write out responses to #1-8 on first page of Lab 11 (pg 111)
 * <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">circulate and ask students what they are finding
 * <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">5) Next week announcements **