Adaptation+Lab+Lesson+Plan

2-8-2010 TA: A .Lackey  Prior to start of class: - collect article analysis  have students begin filling this out         <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Write thought-provoking Qs on board: <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">- <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">How does the organism benefit from that trait? <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">- <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">What selective pressures might have led to the evolution of that trait? <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">- <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">How might changes to the environment affect this trait? <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> · <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">next week – in class work day · <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">we’ll write proposals, read over pgs 144-145
 * __<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Lab 4: Adaptation __**<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">
 * <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">>>> **<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> Hand out sheets for students to record group project questions & materials
 * <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">1) Quiz (15 min) **<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">
 * <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">give students 10-15 min to complete the quiz
 * <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">turn over/cover when finished
 * <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">2) Hand back last week’s assignment (5 min) **<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">
 * <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">go over frequently missed items
 * <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">3) List objectives & Today’s Outline (5 min) **
 * <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Today We Will:
 * <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Understand concepts of adaptation and convergent evolution using examples from the greenhouse
 * <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Develop ecological questions, hypotheses, predictions & methods based on your interests & examples from the greenhouse
 * <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Understand how & practice writing a proposal (to prepare for writing group research proposal)
 * <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Apply our understanding of statistical tests to our proposed research questions
 * <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Practice presentation skills
 * <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">4) Proposals [pg 30] (5 min) **
 * <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Today’s end product will be a mini-proposal based on the experiment you design during our time in the greenhouse.
 * <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">A proposal details what research you plan to do, what you hope to learn & why it’s important (for scientific progress, for society, etc).
 * <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Components include: ecological question, hypoth, prediction, reasons you expect hypothesis is likely explanation for phenomenon observed/question asked, experimental design (how would you test this hypothesis), what type of data you expect to generate, AND [students need to add this to their list of requirements] what statistical test you would use to analyze the data.
 * <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">5) Adaptation & Prep for greenhouse (10 min) **
 * <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Use PPT slides to explain concepts
 * <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">have students describe adaptations in Rainforest & Desert
 * <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Show video from DVD – insect & plant adaptations in pollination
 * <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">have students describe what adaptations might be & why
 * <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Activities:
 * <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">use worksheet (pg 134) to tour the greenhouse & identify different adaptations
 * <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Find examples of 10 adaptations on the sheet
 * <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Use most interesting to design your question
 * <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Then we’ll return to lab, develop proposals & presentations
 * <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">6) Greenhouse (40 min) **
 * <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">10 min to walk there
 * <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">20 min worksheet, exploration
 * <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">if time, select adaptation & write question, hypoth, etc
 * <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">10 min walk back
 * <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">7) Write proposals & presentations (remaining time) **
 * <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Select adaptation, write Q if haven’t already done so
 * <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Write proposal: (at least 1 pg)
 * <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">hypothesis, prediction(s), reasoning for hypoth, expt design, prediction graphs, statistics to use
 * <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Further info on components (pg 144-145)
 * <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">When finished with proposal, make presentation
 * <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Presentation [save 30+ min for presentations]
 * <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">include all components of proposal
 * <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">at least 3 questions asked after each proposal, I will score your participation
 * <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">If you were on a granting committee, why might you consider funding this project? What other information would you want to know before funding this project?
 * <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">8) Announcements (5 min) **