Course Success
Course Success Objectives
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Define the four course topics.
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Explain how biology has a consumer, cultural, and citizenry context.
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Describe strategies you can use to improve learning within this course.
Start this week’s first Media Assignment here
In this section and the next three sections (webpages) of this Discovery & Cells Guide, you will be taking notes on the concepts that are covered. This content complements the first lecture, so you can bring these notes to lecture and add to or modify your notes as desired. After attending the corresponding lecture, you will upload these notes to Canvas as this guide’s media piece. You can take notes digitally on a device or on a piece of paper that you digitally photograph and upload: your choice.
You are able (and recommended) to use your personal notes during each Guide’s quiz. This will be the only time you turn in your notes for grading, but most people continue to take detailed notes, since they can be used to jog memory during each quiz and can be added as personal work to the final Portfolio.
Include in your notes:
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concepts from all four sections (web pages) in this guide.
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a combination of text, images, and icons. Your notes may be mostly text, but some type of image and use of icons needs to be included.
Sample Notes
This is a photo of notes the naturalist Charles Darwin made about barnacles, marine organisms with jointed feeding appendages. There are images, text, and icons, in this case lines pointing to structures.
Your notes on this course may be more text or images, depending on your style. For this assignment you will try to use all three notes components.
Start your notes here
The following video introduces the course topics and the focus of study within this course.
While taking notes, consider that you will be able to use these on this guide’s quiz. Be organized and thorough, these are examples of your work and you may choose to include some of your notes in the final portfolio.
You can select the closed captioning “cc” option if you would like to see the text.
All of us in this course are in the business of learning. This video introduces a few basics on memory formation to get us started.
While taking notes, consider how you can adapt the study recommendations into your own course routine.
The next section introduces science discovery: exploring, describing, and explaining the natural world.
Check your knowledge. Can you:
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define the four course topics?
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explain how biology has a consumer, cultural, and citizenry context?
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describe strategies you can use to improve learning within this course?
Go back to the Discovery Guide Overview
Go forward to the Science Discovery Page
Discovery & Cells Lecture Guide Contents
The material from this guide and corresponding lecture is assessed on the weekly quiz.
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This Guide
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