Due dates, checklist, Field study, Bog buddy, Final invertebrate study

1. finish and hand in the Planaria lab.  Draw planaria, make observations and write notes from page 311 in our text for platyhelminthes.  Show me your lab diagrams and assignment.

2.  Hand in your Trout lake study: by emailing the blogger email listed on the board.
Due by April 18 

3.  Junior scientist:  Hand in the following by April 14
a. original lesson plan
b. implementation observations
c.  child's drawings (already in)

New assignments
4.  Invertebrate topic: Due, emailed by the end of April
Choose an invertebrate topic to prepare an emailed web poster:
topics can be
  Echinodermata  ( preserved specimens available)
  Molluska    (frozen defrosted specimens available, live snails available from garden)
  Arthropoda   (preserved specimen available, live specimens from garden available)
  Annelida    (live specimens from school garden available - do not kill)

your emailed web poster must have the answers to these questions
1.  your name and the name of one partner (select your topic today and take notes (5 marks)
2.  the phylum of your invertebrate and its general characteristics 10 marks
3.  classes of your invertebrate and the most interesting pictures of the examples in each class
4.  symmetry    1 mark
5.  deuterostome or protostome   2 marks
6.  Choose three examples of your phylum    21 marks
      For each example write
     a.  body plan
     b.  habitat
     c.  food
     d.  adaptations
     e.  reproduction
     f.  waste
     e.  sensing the environment
7.  Do a dissection of your specimen and photograph your dissection
8. Bibliography 5 marks

5.  Field study: Due last day of May
Create a pdf photographed field guide for one of the following environments:
1.  Gladstone Garden bug guide
2.  Trout lake, plants and animals around the lake field guide
3.  Central Park Forest Guide
Each field guide will be in pdf format and contain
a.  at least 25 of the most common species available for identification
b.  a title page
c.  A dichotomous key for identifying plants, and animals

6.  Camosun Bog Project:  
a.  Prepare a story book and flashcards describing the story of Camosun bog
b.  Make a lesson plan for bringing bog buddies round to the seven stations identified by the instructor on the REHEARSAL DAY  on  Mon April 25, 2016
c.  Engage your students on a bog tour on the TOUR DAY in May (to be announced)
Monday May 9, 2016

   
   

Junior Scientist

Junior Scientist Program:

1.  Create a lesson plan for the junior scientist.  Work in a group of two or three.
Your lesson plan has:

a.  lesson goals:  The Magnificent Magnified World
b.  step by step procedure, time this minute by minute
c.  must include an INTRODUCTION to you so they're not scared of you      /5
d.  a SITE WALK to do a BIOLOGY SCAVENGER HUNT for specimens    /5
e.  a MICROSCOPE SESSION to look at specimens                                       /10
f.  encourage your kids to DRAW THE SPECIMEN                                         /5
e.  you TEACH THEM SOME KIND OF BIOLOGICAL CONCEPT        /15
f.  a SNACK BREAK (10 min)


implentation:  I will observe how your lesson goes.
Are students engaged?     /5
Are they active in learning?      /5
Do you connect with your students?    /5
Did you get through your lesson?    /5
materials:
dissecting microscope (stereoscopic) two ocular lenses
petri dishes to collect stuff
paper for them to draw with, felts.

Your topic is....THE MAGNIFICENT MAGNIFIED WORLD....
THINGS YOU MAY MAGNIFY....
money, magazine, paper towel
hair (yours or theirs)
leaf, flower (watch out for pollen allergies!!!)
bug hunt  for worms, ants, spiders, any bug...

Tsunami Relief

Some notes on parasites:
Platyhelminthes and Nematoda

The World Health Organization has sent your team to a remote Sumatran seaside village.  The basic infrastructure of the village has been destroyed.  There is no longer any sewage, drinking water or electricity.  People are cooking using gas stoves.  Livestock such as pigs, cows and chickens are roaming the wreckage.

A freshwater stream drains into the ocean.  This stream is currently being used for laundry, sewage, bathing and drinking water.  Furthermore, there is an infestation of mosquitoes due to the presence of standing water.

Assuming that all the major examples of parasitic worms occur in this area, what three parasites do you think would cause the most severe health problems?

Choose three parasites to focus on.

1. Identify the major risk factors that can lead to people becoming infected.
2. What symptoms would you expect people to have that would indicate infection?  How would you know that people are infected?
3. What are your recommendations for treatment?
4. What are your recommendations for prevention given that it could take months before the infrastructure is restored?

Your assigment may take the format of
1. A pamphlet for the general public
2. A strategic plan:  An essay and illustrations :  a report for the local authorities
3. An educational poster for the public
4. Choose your own format

Evaluation:   Content:   10
Written expression and drawings: 10
Creativity:         10

Itinerary for Vancouver Aquarium Trip

Meet at the Vancouver Aquarium Entrance for attendance
The location is here
meet at 9:15 for attendance

930  we will do the wet lab
1045 we will get time to eat lunch and walk around aquarium. Stay in the aquarium
12:15 we will meet together inside the entrance to walk around the seawall.  This is our route.  We will stop by Totems and see the flora and fauna around the seawall.

We will end up at Waterfront station at 1:30 and board the skytrain to head back to Nanaimo Station.

You Animal!

We will visit the Vancouver Aquarium on Feb 

intro to kingdom animalia.  there will be a 10 mark quiz next period on the contents of these notes up to the section on endoderm, ectoderm and mesoderm

intro to cnidaria and porifera
Today we will review key concepts in kingdom Animalia and look at sections of earthworm and ascaris to compare the body plans of these animals.  You will discover whether you are a protostome or deuterstome.

Microbiology test

There will be a multiple choice test (kudos to the Theatre students on the  Gladstone drama show!!) on the following 

 the Introduction to Microbiology Notes

The Lytic and Lysogenic cycle steps: 

The slideshow on disease

and for those involved in the fabulous drama show, I need to see your notes on the following video up to 45 minutes. There will be four viruses in the documentary:  SARS, Spanish Flu, Small Pox, Ebola

For each of the  viruses tell me:

1.  What are the factors that caused the emergence of the virus (what started it?)

2.  What are the symptoms of the virus?

3.  How was the illness treated?

4.   What was the disease vector(s) involved with spreading the disease?

5.  What steps were taken to control and stop the outbreak?

6. Why do people track birds for studying human viruses? 

Disease vectors notes and activity. View slide notes and also try out the case studies for homework. Finally, finish up that microbiology worksheet

slideshow on disease for our Centre for Disease Control activity:  

Some useful links below for more info:

Very generalized differences between viral and bacterial infections

A list of bacterial pathogens and viral pathogens (note the error under viral pathogens: botulism is not a viral disease - gov't of australia website made a mistake here!). some of the pathogens are particular to Australia, but others are common worldwide (such as measles, meningitis, salmonella, influenza).  These sites are easy to navigate.

 a more comprehensive list of viral pathogens .  this list is undergraduate level.

CASE STUDIES

Airborne Diseases

            Preventing airborne diseases case study: a viral airborne disease (SARS)

            http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/npptl/topics/respirators/factsheets/respsars.html

Managing an airborne disease case study:  a bacterial airborne disease (TB)

            http://www.cdc.gov/tb/pubs/slidesets/InfectionGuidelines/airborne.htm

STI: 

http://www.cdc.gov/std/default.htm

Foodborne:http://www.cdc.gov/foodsafety/facts.html

dine safe website: a comprehensive list of health inspection reports for any restaurant!

Animal vector:

            Vertebrates mainly :

http://www.cdc.gov/healthypets/browse_by_diseases.htm

Insect vector: note only the ones caused by virus and bacteria:

http://www.capitalhealth.ca/EspeciallyFor/TravellersHealth/InsectTransmittedDiseases/default.htm

Waterborne:

http://www.azdhs.gov/phs/oids/epi/disease/waterborne/list.htm