Be responsible for your own learning. Read directions carefully. Believe in your abilities. Confidence is half the battle. Read all text and supplementary materials as assigned. Artisteer web design generator for Joomla templates, Wordpress themes, Drupal themes, Blogger templates and DNN skins. Try, and then try again. Complete all assignments as assigned. Ask Questions Practice. Practice. Practice. Safety Laboratory safety is important. Although many labs are online, students will be conducting some labs at home. All students are encouraged to wear protective equipment at all times while conducting labs. Assignments. Save all your work to your hard drive or disk and also save it in another location i. Sometimes things can happen to your computer, and it may be necessary for you to prove that you have completed all assignments. Cheating and plagiarism is lying and stealing. What is Biology Read over the key terms on page 3. Click on each tab. You dont need to learn all of these terms now. Use this to start to refresh your memory about what youve learned previously. This is your answer key for the course. Day 2 Read about the Study of Life page 2. Complete Page 4, Pre Assessment. Read the page. Write at least three characteristics of living things with descriptions and examples. Record your score out of 1. Take off one point for each incomplete section of the assignment. Day 3Print the Characteristics of Living Things concept map. Read characteristics 1 3 on pages 6 8. Heres page 8s interactive for plants in motion. All living things are made with one or more cells. All living things must be able to obtain and use energy. All living things react to a stimulus. Start filling out your concept map. Day 4. Read characteristics 4, 5 and 7 on pages 9, 1. Yes, I skipped a page. Well get to that shortly. All living things reproduce. All living things grow, develop and die. Every organism has a life span. Every organism deteriorates wears out or breaks down over time not covered in the reading for the dayNothing last forever sooner or later a living thing can no longer do what it must to survive. All living things maintain homeostasis. Watch this short video for an overview of the role of homeostasis in the body. Continue filling out your concept map. Day 5. Read over this list and descriptions of the characteristics of living things. How does this compare to what youve learned You can leave number 6 blank on your map. Were going to be covering that shortly. Record your grade out of 3. Take off one point for any incomplete blanks, other than number 6 blanks. Is it biotic or abioticLearn abiotic and biotic if you dont remember these terms from previous courses. Pay attention to your score. One question will say you are wrong, that it tricked you, when you actually have the correct answer. If you have answered it correctly, adjust your score by one pointAdd one point to your score. Record your score out of 1. Day 6. Read from the beginning through Diversity of Life in the What is Biology chapter. You dont need to use the links in the reading. I will be linking to ones separately that you should use. This site may require you to log in. If you dont have one, please create an account. Answer questions 1 4. Check your answers. All answers can be found on the answer pages linked on Day 1. Record your score out of 4. Day 7. Watch this video on evolution and natural selection. When you read about evolution, think about it in terms of natural selection. As a Christian who believes that the earth was created in six days by God, I do believe in natural selection. Of course I do. It exists today. Its something that we can observe happening. I dont accept that somehow these small changes within species somehow, over eons and eons made species jump and transform into whole other species. There has never been any observable evidence of that happening. The scientists who believe in that and not all do take it on faith that thats how all of the many species came to be. I would rather have faith in God. It makes much more sense that 1. God than to say that those possibly over 3. If that were the case, dont you think there would be way fewer species if it were really about developing into what survived best in that environmentFill in number six on your concept map. Characteristic 6 change over time as they adapt to their environment. Fossils show us that things living are evolving from things that lived long ago. Living things that adapt to changing environmental conditions survive when others dont. Read the story of creation. You can watch the beginning of the video on the page of read and click on Next until you get to the section on the Fall. Complete the quiz. Check your answers. Record your score out of 8. Day 8. Watch this video on faith and evolution. Day 9. Copy the organization of life terms on page 1. Read over the safety information on the top half of page 1. Complete the lab on page 2. Do Sugar Crystals Grow. Read and follow the directionsAnswer the two questions at the end. Score 1. 0 points for completing the experiment and 5 points for answering the questions. Record your score out of 1. Day 1. 0Review the chapter. This requires shockwave flash player. Complete the crossword puzzle for review as well.