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Assignments and Weekly
Activities
- Week 1: 2/4
- Assignments:
- Class activities:
- About the course (rough syllabus)
- Please tailor the course to your
benefit/major/interest
- Weekly (almost) field trips?
- Planning our all day Cambridge field trip
- Stuff you need to know about for the first
couple of weeks:
- First field trip to the Science Museum
(walking): Depart DH about 10:30 AM
- Week 2: 2/11
- Week 3: 2/18
- Week 4: 2/25
- Assignment 3: Write a one page summary summary
(giving references--web references are OK, but not
Wikipedia) of
- what variolation is (the vaccination methodology
before Jenner), or
- a description of how Jenner used the disease
cowpox in vaccinating people against small pox.
- Assignment 4: Write a paragraph concerning your
visit to the Hunterian Museum (topic is up to you:
something that impressed you)
- Class Activity:
- Jenner Trip Preparation:
- Variolation Bullet Points
- Jenner's Discovery Bullet Points
- Preparation for Cambridge Trip
- Week 5: 3/4
- Assignment 5: Turn in a Movie Review about The
Double Helix. Be sure to include a summary of
the plot and the science of the discovery.
- Watson and Crick Base Pairing revisited:
- For what cellular events (or biotechnology
procedures) is base pairing important?
- TED Talk: James
Watson in 2007
- Movie: Memphis Belle
- Week 6: 3/11
- Cambridge Trip!
- Leave Daniel House at 7:45 AM. Gloucester Road
Circle Line eastbound to Liverpool Street. London
Liverpool train at 8:30 AM to Cambridge.
- Cambridge Tour 9:40-11:40, begin in front of the
Guildhall by the market place
- Free time to explore Cambridge (free bus pass)
- Return from Cambridge Station: train leaves at
3:50 PM.
- Assignment 6:
- Take the virtual tour of King's College London's
DNA:
The King's Story (just the first three
sections: Early work at King's, Key individuals,
and Key discoveries)
- Write one page about information about the
discovery of the Double Helix you picked up from
this tour.
- Week 7: 3/25 Rosalind Franklin
lived in our neighborhood!
- Assignment 7:
- Class activity:
- Week 8: 4/1
- Class activity:
- Visit to Florence Nightingale Museum: take
notes.
- Week 9: 4/8
- Assignment 8:
- Based on your museum visit, write a BRIEF report
on any discrepancies you find between the
Hollywood version of Nightingale's story and her
real tale. (You may also use the Nightingale reference
I introduced to you last week--but it's long so
your museum notes are fine.)
- Class Activity:
- Myths about evolution (at least I think they
are myths):
- Evolution is "only" a theory.
- Scientists are atheists--all real Christians
reject evolution.
- Scientists are split about whether evolution
is true or not.
- There is a great conspiracy
by secular materialist to push evolution,
regardless of facts to the contrary.
- Evolution says that humans came from
monkeys.
- Evolution is not science since it cannot be
repeated.
- Evolution can describe how organisms change
within a species but it cannot explain how new
species arise.
- Watch Debating Evolution (supplemental
material to Creation, a film about the
life of Charles Darwin): opinions from an
atheistic scientist, a theistic evolutionist,
and a "quick creationist."
- Department of Biological and Environmental
Sciences, Samford University: Statement
on evolution. (Some resources are here if
you would like to pursue this as a report
topic.)
- So, what does evolution propose? (This is
actually your assignment for next week.)
- Week 10: 4/15
- Assignment 9:
- Read the following from National Geographic.
- From this article, describe how evolution
happens (about a page).
- Give three different types of evidence for
evolution (about a page).
- Also, write a paragraph about your personal
reaction to the article.
- Read at least the first 7 pages of this National
Geographic article and be ready to discuss
it.
- Class Activity:
- Discussion of The Man Who Wasn't Darwin.
- Visit to the Museum of Natural History
- Find evidence FOR or AGAINST evolution
- Present your case in a persuasive, logical
essay as next week's assignment. (See Assignment 10
guide sheet)
- Field Trip to Jenner's House: Saturday, 4/19
- Week 11: 4/22
- Assignment 10:
- Turn in your evolution evidence/opinion sheet
(following guide
sheet).
- Class Activity:
- Week 12: 4/27
- Assignment 11: Send me your Kew Gardens photos.
- Class Activity:
- Share your Kew Gardens experiences (in person or
telepathically).
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