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What can I do at home?

Although you are required to take all of your exams in the testing room of the Biology Learning Center (BLC), much of your work can be completed at home with an Internet connection and your textbook.

Textbook Worksheets and Practice Tests: You can complete all of your textbook worksheets at home. These worksheets serve as your "lecture notes," much like you would obtain from going to a formal lecture. You should study these worksheets to help prepare for the exams. You also can complete the self-tests (practice tests) and other review materials on the course website using your home Internet connection.

Assignments: This class has several assignments that you can complete at home. Some of the assignments require a high-speed internet connection, so if your home connection is slow, you might want to plan on doing these assignments in the BLC to save time. Most of these assignments can be submitted online directly to your instructor for grading, but a few of them will require you to print out assignment worksheets, complete them, and turn them in to be graded.

Labs: Many of the labs require that you come into the Biology Learning Center to use the lab materials on site, such as microscopes, models, and kits. However, other labs can be completed partially or entirely at home.

The following is a table showing labs that MUST be done in the Biology Learning Center (BLC) vs. labs that can be done at HOME. Of course, if you do not have a computer at home, you are welcome to do ALL of your work in the BLC!

Unit Labs BLC or Home?
1

Hypotheses, variables, and experimentation
Questions and Hypotheses: More practice

Scientific measurement

Home
Home
BLC
2 Acids and bases in your daily life
Biodiversity under the microscope
Home
BLC
3 Life in a 20-gallon ecosystem
Ecobeaker: Niches and competition
Ecobeaker: Keystone predator
BLC
BLC
BLC
4

Ecobeaker: Barnacles
Rule of seventy
Questions and Hypotheses

BLC
Home
Home
5 Endangered species
Ecobeaker: Butterflies

Home
BLC

6 Methods of studying succession
Tree-ring activity
Parks and protected areas
Ecobeaker: Intermediate disturabnce hypothesis
Home
Home
Home
BLC
7 No labs, just internet-based assignments  
8 Risk and human health
Ecobeaker: Lake trophic cascade

Home
BLC

9 No labs, just internet-based assignments  
10

Water Taste Test
internet-based assignments

BLC
11 No labs  
12 No labs  
13 No labs  
14 No labs, just internet-based assignments  
15 No labs  

 

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