Winter Quarter Assignments
Be certain to check the schedule page to find specific assignment due dates.
Personal Food Exploration Journal...No study of obesity would be complete without careful examination of personal health, nutrition, and the meaning of food. Your are to create an organized 3-ring-binder that includes the following components. (Detailed Assignment Description)
Week 2 Physical Activity Workshop Reflection
Week 3 Description and Reflection of your team Industrial Meal
Week 3 Industrial Organic Meal Planning Summary
Week 5 Description and Reflection on your team Industrial Organic Meal
Week 5 Local Organic Meal Planning Summary (for some groups)
Personal Food Exploration Journal DUE (seminar week 6)
Week 5 Local Organic Meal Planning Summary (for some groups)
Week 7 Individual Nutrition Log (assignment description)
Week 7 Description and Reflection of your team Local Organic Meal
Week 7 Perfect Meal Planning Summary
Week 8 or 9 Nutrition Log Analysis with Reflection (assignment description)
Week 9 Description and Reflection of your team Perfect Meal
Week 10 Physical Activity Workshop Reflection
Week 10 Quarter Reflection on personal health, nutrition, and meaning of food
Personal Food Exploration Journal DUE (Thursday week 10)
From the Laboratory... Hands-on laboratory work is essential to achieve an understanding of science. All experiments will be posted to the web and it is your responsibility to print out, read, complete the prelab assignment, and bring the packet to your lab session. Safety in the lab is important to us. All students must complete the laboratory safety session and the laboratory safety quiz to work in the lab setting. A copy of the laboratory safety manual can be found online.
Prelab check-off for "Mutagenesis" (week 1)
Prelab check-off for "Yeast Metabolism" (week 3)
Prelab check-off for "Bomb Calorimetry " (week 4 or week 8)
Prelab check-off for "Organic Families " (week 4 or week 8)
Prelab check-off for "Photosynthesis & Plant Physiology" (week 5)
Prelab check-off for "Embryonic Development" (week 6)
Prelab check-off for "Vitamins (week 8)
Prelab check-off for "Making Soap" (week 9)
Lab packet for "Mutagenesis" (week 2 to Ben)
Lab packet for "Yeast Metabolism" (week 5 to Seminar Faculty)
....(Data File for respirometers observed over extended time)
Lab packet for "Organic Families " (week 5 or week 8 to Rebecca)
Lab packet for "Bomb Calorimetry " (week 5 or week 8 to Rebecca)
Lab packet for "Photosynthesis & Plant Physiology" (week 5 to Ben)
Lab packet for "Vitamins" (week 8 to Rebecca)
Lab packet for "Making Soap" (week 9 to Rebecca)
Lab packet for "Embryonic Development" (week 9 to Ben)
From Seminar... During winter quarter we will be reading, reflecting on, and discussing several texts in our exploration of obesity. Seminar is a cornerstone of your Evergreen education. To get the most out of this experience, you must complete the readings and assignments well before seminar and bring a copy of the reading to seminar. (Assignment descriptions are linked below.)
Week 1: The Omnivore's Dilemma Introduction
Week 2: Annual Editions Nutrition, Article 13 “Corn Syrup”
Week 3: The Omnivore's Dilemma, chpts 1-7
Week 4: Annual Editions Nutrition, Article 24, 25, & 26
Week 5: Preparation Time for "Respiration"
Week 6: Folic Acid
Week 7: The Omnivore's Dilemma, chpts 10-14 AND
...........
The Omnivore's Dilemma, chpts 15-end
Week 8: Performance of Respiration
From Workshops...Many of our workshops in winter quarter will focus on data analysis techniques and data interpretation skills. Some weeks will have a reading associated that should be completed before the start of class. Problem packets will be distributed and completed during workshop time.
Week 1: Nutrition Trends; Annual Editions Nutrition, Article 1
Week 2 & 3: Kinetics (In the CAL);
Week 2 & 3: Essential Amino Acids
Week 4 & 5: The Health Diet Face-Off (in the CAL);An.Ed. Nutrition, Article 28
Week 4 & 5: "Obesity an Overblown Epidemic" Sci.Am.Current Issues in Biology V3
Week 6: Planning for the dance "Respiration"
Week 7: Carbon Footprint (in the CAL)--bring completed worksheet with you
Week 8 & 9: Nutritional Analysis (in the CAL)-bring your nutrition logs
Week 8 & 9: Biology Data
Analysis
From Lecture...Weekly lectures will provide you opportunities to strengthen your knowledge depth for general chemistry, organic chemistry, biochemistry, and general biology.
Biology Quizzes Tuesdays (weeks: 1, 3, 5, 7)
Biology Quizzes Thursday (weeks: 1, 6, 8)
Chemistry Online Homework (weeks: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
Chemistry Brain Dumps (weeks: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
Biology Exam 1: in class (Tuesday week 4)(wkshop1)(wkshop2)(wkshop3)
Biology Exam 2: take-home (Distributed Tuesday week 6)
Biology Final Exam: in class
(Tuesday week 10)
Chemistry Exam 1: in class (Thursday week 4)(review sheet)
Chemistry Exam 2: take-home (Distributed Tuesday week 6)
Chemistry Final Exam: in class
(Thursday week 9)(review sheet)
Science Teasers (Thursday week 8)
Focus the Nation (Activities Wednesday week 4 with assignment due week 5)
Dance Preparation and Performance "Respiration" (performance tuesday wk 8)
Fall Quarter 2007 Assignments
