General Biology 2
Biology 112
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I taught Biol 112: General Biology 2 during my first semester at Metropolitan State University. This course represented a massive adjustment for me to a new environment and to subject material that I had not been exposed to for many years. Over the course of the semester within this course I did more in-class activities, some metacognitive activities... I grew as an instructor.
Overall instructor rating: 2 (+/- 0.9)
Many of the other ratings are below a 2.
While my first semester teaching showed A LOT of room for improvement, the students did note improvement that was occurring over the course of the semester.
Course outline
Course outline
learning objectives up to test 1.pdfThese are the learning objectives established for the first exam's worth of material.
Sample lab activities
Sample lab activities
Fauxlogenies.pdfHere the students are learning phylogeny but we start with the abstract of categorizing things by appearance and then discuss how new information changes the categorization. This aids them in understanding why phylogenies sometimes do not make sense.
half-life.pdfStudents had a very hard time understanding half life. This was an intervention done in class to try to help them to make better sense of it.
Sample Exams
Sample Exams
Quiz Questions from your peers.pdfStudents were asked to submit sample exam questions. The best questions were used on the exam. This aided them in taking ownership of the exam as well as test taking skills.
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