Dr. Bruce W. Grant and
Dr. Itzick Vatnick
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grant@pop1.science.widener.edu and
vatnick@pop1.science.widener.edu
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Assessment:
Detailed Instructions:
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Task: This assignment will assess your learning outcomes and experiences in the two labs on biophysical ecology: "Measuring and Modeling the Theory of Cooling" and
"Modeling and Measuring Lizard Operative Environmental Temperatures" that you did over the past two Tuesday lab classes.
Please answer the questions in the box below, and send me your responses by email.
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BIO 401: Assignment 5 - Biophysical Ecology. [[Name:START]] replace this text with your name [[Name:END]] Take a quick look at the data you and your classmates collected from the first lab: "Measuring and Modeling the Theory of Cooling" (posted here: CoolingLabStudentResults.xls) and answer Questions #1 - #5. Question 1. Please briefly summarize in a short paragraph the results YOU found with your investigations (if you did not get the equipment to work,
skip to the next question). [#1]
Question 2. What were three of the main ideas, general concepts, or principles that you were supposed to
understand and take with you from the first lab: "Measuring and Modeling the Theory of Cooling"? [#2]
Question 3. What was the one thing you learned from this lab that you will likely Question 4. What was one idea, concept, or principle that you really did not get from the lab (and the follow-up classroom discussions),
that you feel you were really were supposed to understand? [#4]
Question 5. What was one idea, concept, or principle that you wanted to learn more about had there been more time? [#5]
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Take a quick look at the data you and your classmates collected from the second lab: "Modeling and Measuring Lizard Operative Environmental Temperatures" (posted here: TbLizStudentResults.xls) and answer Questions #6 - #10. Question 6. Please briefly summarize in a short paragraph the results YOU found with your investigations. [#6]
Question 7. What were three of the main ideas, concepts, or principles that you were supposed to
understand and take with you from the second lab: "Modeling and Measuring Lizard Operative Environmental Temperatures"? [#7]
Question 8. What was the one thing you learned from this lab that you will likely Question 9. What was one idea, concept, or principle that you really did not get from the lab (and the follow-up classroom discussions),
that you feel you were really were supposed to understand? [#9]
Question 10. What was one idea, concept, or principle that you wanted to learn more about had there been more time? [#10]
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Question 11. Comment specifically on the modeling part. How have your ideas or attitudes toward quantitative research,
and the use of computers to study and understand physiological ecology, changed as a result of your doing your own computer simulations?
Please reflect upon this topic in at least one paragraph, and offer a critique not only your learning of these quantitative skills, but also of the lab activities in
helping you to learn these skills. [#11]
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