BOT 317 (NYBG)
Course Documents
Lab Notebook Reference - Guidelines for keeping a lab notebook for BOT 317
Written Project - Brief summary of a scientific journal article related to the diversity of life
Google Scholar: This is a useful site for searching for scientific journal for your written project
JSTOR website: This is another useful site for searching for scientific journal for your written project
Prerequisite course(s)
Instructor
Contact email
jboyer[at]nybg.org
paleoplant1[at]gmail.com
Course Dates
See syllabus (above)
Text
Raven, P. H., Evert, R. F., & Eichhorn, S. E. Biology of plants. New York: W.H. Freeman and Co. Chicago (7th or 8th edition)
Materials
Pencil
Lecture notebook
Lab notebook
Textbook
Methodology
Classes will consist of a combination of lecture, discussion inquiry-based activities, and observation laboratories
Attendance
Students must attend all sessions; excused absences will be allowed for no more than 2 sessions. Additional missed classes will result in a 1/3 letter grade reduction per absence.
Grading
Each session will begin with a quiz on material covered the prior meeting session (including any handouts and textbook reading assignments). There will be no make-up quizzes for unexcused absences; all make-up quizzes must be taken before the next session.
Questions and/or laboratory write-ups will be assigned throughout the term; these should be typed. All write-ups must be handed in on time.
A laboratory notebook will be kept with procedures and label diagrams for all viewed materials. This lab notebook should be bound (I will not accept loose pages)
How to study for quizzes and tests
Focus on concepts that include larger understandings of the session's topics.
Note features that are important or unique to organisms that demarcate them from others.
Remember important definitions that pervade the session's topics.
Conceptualize the life cycle of the major or model group(s) that we studied in each session, connecting these ideas to the specimens observed in lab.
Look at "Questions for Thought" in each groups' section, and conceptualize answers to these questions.