Biology Field Trip Assignment

Your Western Sciences Field Trip Assignment between our classes on June 24/25 – July 8/9

“Loafing around without feeling guilty”

Each day you will be required to “loaf around without feeling guilty”.

Use your blog to describe your experiences!

 

 

Assignments for Week Seven - Cell Biology and Cancer

Blog assignments for this week:

• How sophisticated is our understanding of cancer?
• How does a TCM approach to cancer differ?
• Post your thoughts on one of today's articles
• Post a comment to a classmate's blog entry

Check out the following links:

http://www.learner.org/channel/courses/biology/textbook/cancer/cancer_13.html
Rediscovering Biologyhttp://www.learner.org/channel/courses/biology/textbook/hiv/hiv_1.html
HIV and AIDShttp://www.stemworks.org/digests/EDO-SE-02-07.pdf
Teaching About the Life and Health of Cells


Enjoy your loafing - and remember to post your observations!

Research Presentations

Here are the scheduled Biology Research Presentations
 

June 18                John           “The Human Microbiome” 

June 25                Arthur        “Whether the fish is happy”

July 9                        Hilary        “Biology of Birth”

                             Susan        “Geo Engineering”

                             Emily         ”Microflora in Chronic Conditions”

July 16                 Sara            JRA 

July 23                 Jillian           "Stress" 

 

July 30                 Ali                 TBD

                            Gazania         "Evolution or Creation"
 

                             Ayo             “Parasites”

August 6             Jessie            “Telomeres”

                            Claire            TBD

August 13           Nori               "Mitochondria"

                            Heather         TBD

                            Isabel            "Plant Intelligence in Medicine"

 

 

   

 

Assignments for Week Six - The Nature of Life

Blog assignments for this week:

• How would you distinguish between living and non-living systems?
• "DNA doesn't determine race. Society does" Would you agree?
• Post a response to a classmate's blog

Check out the following links:
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/plants/cell/
 Plant Cell Anatomy

http://www.life.uiuc.edu/cgi-bin/plantbio/cell/cell.cgi 
Virtual Cell

Assignments for Week Five - The Complexity of Life

Blog assignments for this week:

• How do you now suppose new species emerge?
• Do you vote for the chicken or the egg?
• Respond to a classmate's blog entries

Check out the following links:

http://www.reed.edu/~mab/papers/4.puzzles.htm
Four Puzzles about Life

 http://mandalazone.com/wordpress/thinking-through-the-mind-and-the-mandala/
Thinking Through: The Mind and the Mandala
by Peter Barreda

Assignments for Week Four - The Pattern of Life

Blog assignments for this week:

• Post your thoughts on how we view animal intelligence?
• Post a comment to a classmate's blog

 

Check out the following links:

http://www.combusem.com/CAPRA4.HTM 
THE IMMUNE SYSTEM OUR SECOND BRAIN
FRITJOF CAPRA 
http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/playground/life.html 
The Game of Life

http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-36174 

Philosophy of biology
> The nature of biological systems
> Viewpoints on the nature of life