BIO 125 Backyard Learning ExperiencesChart
| To Do | Preparation | Must Do!! |
| Getting started | Purchase your course textbooks and two bound notebooks (one lined and one unlined) | Confirm your enrollment in this class by sending an email to your instructor. Use the email address on your Course Orientation Handout. |
| Read | Use Stokes Field Guide to Birds, Western Region; Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast and Part two of Field Guide to the Pacific Northwest to identify the plants and animals you find in Your Backyard Field Trip. | Your Backyard Lectures
Field Guide to the Pacific Northwest : 10-11, 16-27, 44-49, 54-73, and specific pages for identification Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast : 11-16, 20-27, and specific pages for identification Field Guide to Birds : x-xxiv, and specific pages Passionate Slugs and Hollywood Frogs : xiii-xvii, 1-3, 7-12, 28-33, 37-41, 48-50, 83-85, 96-98, 102-104, 107-109, 113-118, 135-136, 139-141, 142-147, 152-154, 158-162, 166-167 Natural Grace: 3-9, 57-66, 69-78, 96-106, 105-113 |
| Concept-check Quiz | This is a multiple choice quiz based on ALL the readings listed above. | Backyard Quiz |
| Check your Quiz Grade | You can access your quiz after they have been graded. | Check Your Quiz Grade |
| Practicum (This one is a practice run) |
Here is the list of organisms from which the practical will come. | Backyard Practicum |
| Scouting your Field Trip Site | Prior to beginning your Backyard Field Trip take a walk around your chosen location to select the best place to locate your field trip study area. You will be returning to this location throughout the course to conduct further observations. | |
| Field Trips Activities | Collect the materials needed for your Backyard Field Trip | Your Backyard Field Trip |
| Writing | Prepare your answers to the questions on the Field Trip Report form using your Word Processing program. Use your word processing programs grammar-checker and spell-checker before you cut and paste your answers into the report form. | Complete Your Backyard Field Trip Report form |
| Peer Interaction | The Discussion Web will be your chance to interact with your fellow students. For this unit here is Your Backyard Discussion Topic . | Discussion Web |
| Instructor Interaction | Use email to send any questions that you have to the instructor. |