THE WORKSHEETS

• You will need to download and print the worksheets for this course. If you have a computer and printer at home (or know someone with a computer and printer), you can print the worksheets at your convenience. If you do not have a computer and/or printer, we suggest you go to the Downtown Campus Library and Computer Commons, or go to a local copy store.

• The Library and Computer Commons at the Downtown Campus have computers and printers where you can download the worksheets and print them at 10 cents per page.

• To download and/or print the worksheets, you will need a software program called Adobe Acrobat Reader. You can download this software FREE by clicking on: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep.html and then clicking on GET ACROBAT READER FREE.

• The computers in the Biology Learning Lab already have Adobe Acrobat Reader loaded - you do not need to download it again!
• The computers in the Downtown Campus Library and Computer Commons also have Adobe Acrobat Reader already loaded.
• If you are currently working on your own computer at home, then you'll want to download Adobe Acrobat Reader right away! This is a very handy program to have on your computer, since more and more websites are putting their downloadable reports and forms into PDF format.

• PDF stands for Portable Document Format. We put the worksheets in PDF files so that after you download and print the worksheets, they will look exactly the way we intended. PDF files retain their formatting regardless of the computer platform, internet browser, or type of printer you are using.

• After years of student complaints about the price of pre-printed workbooks, we wanted to find a way of lowering the price. Also, there were always problems in determining the exact number of workbooks to be printed every semester. Whenever we made changes in the curriculum, the old workbooks in the bookstore became outdated. Therefore we decided to put them in this format, and put them online. That way, (1) we've taken out the "middle man" (the campus bookstore), and if you are printing at home, the only cost is what you spend on paper and ink; (2) you print them out as needed, just one unit at a time; and (3) we protect the environment by making sure that there aren't any extra unused workbooks that end up in the landfill.

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