Post From 10/12 Class Day

*In the very beginning of class we got into groups of three and crafted posters outlining what categories and point values we felt were essential to include in the grading rubric for the results section of our final Scientific Research Papers.  This activity was definitely focused on collaboratively examining and participating in observation driven investigations, collecting and analyzing data, interpreting and presenting results, and participating peer review.
* By making these posters, coming up with categories as a group, assigning these categories point values, presenting them to the class, and then reviewing our findings with the class as a whole, we directly participated in all the learning goals outlined above.
*Next we took on a fun little exercise where we looked at questions we had all answered as a class for the getting to know you surveys we took, then came up with hypothesis we felt we could test with the data provided by the answers to these questions.
*i.e. Is this your first quarter at UWB?
My Hypothesis: Students view BES 301 as a good first science class to take at UWB.
*This exercise most definitely had us examining and participating in the steps of observation driven investigations: including interpreting data and crafting hypothesis.
*After these exercises we got back to final picks for our variables and treatments we will each be covering individually on Nucella Lamellosa in our Final R. Papers.
*This definitely included analyzing data so that we both knew which precise variables we would be covering and had a chance to pick the variables we each thought would be most interesting to analyze and report on.
*Nick Dotson is officially (Removed from barnacles once each day and tissue growth over length of experiment).  YAAAaaaa-BUUDDDDDYYY.
*Also, don't know if everyone heard me at the end of class, but what I brought up about the control groups having NA data in the data set was wrong, it was only NA in the barnacle control which we all know now didn't exist, so i hope I didn't leave anyone still worried about that.
Science Blogger Over and Out-Nick Dotson