BIOLOGYBIOLOGY

College Preparatory LevelSCIE 233

September 8, 2009

WELCOME!WELCOME!• You have two tasks related to your classroom

seat assignment:

1. Correctly interpret the following chart and sit in the correct seat.

2. Determine what criterion used to assign students to seats in this class.

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6

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Seat Assignments – SCIE 233-Seat Assignments – SCIE 233-11

(PERIOD 3)(PERIOD 3)

Teacher Desk

Smith Vinyard Haley Wells Bregenzer Scully(Class manager)

Roche Cory Dougherty Walsh Butta Pierce

Luthy Wilson Gahan Hunt

Seat Assignments – SCIE 233-Seat Assignments – SCIE 233-44

(PERIOD 6)(PERIOD 6)

Teacher Desk

Munoz Reed Licata Walters DeGraffenreidt,M.

Owings (Class manager)

White Nerenberg Piedmont McGinnis Van Zijl Czawlytko

Newsome Burns DiBiagio Ross Warner DeGraffenreidtJ.

Reuling

Seat Assignments – SCIE 233-Seat Assignments – SCIE 233-55

(PERIOD 9)(PERIOD 9)

Teacher Desk

Enwright Gibson Zumwalt Horkey Brennan, T. Sommerhof(Class manager)

Leatherwood Rose Brennan, D. Pica Kenny Fields

Jenkins Jackson Wade Murphy O’Malley Evans

Prayer for CreationPrayer for Creation

Lord of all creation, Give us the eyes to see your earth and every element with its intrinsic beauty and value; All people as sisters and brothers. Help us to build up a world where we can share

the abundance of this earth through justice and peace; Cherishing the beauty in each other, And in all your created world. Amen.

InstructorInstructor

Mr. BromwellScience Teacher – Biology,

Marine Science, AP Environmental Science

Has taught at Loyola Blakefield since 2002.Has worked at the National Aquarium in Baltimore since

1995.

My Education:Loyola Blakefield Class of 1991University of Miami (FL) – B.S. Marine Science (1995)Loyola College of Maryland – M.Ed. Secondary Education

(2007)Has also studied at James Cook University in Queensland,

Australia

Contacting MeContacting Me

Office Hours• Science Office (between W106 and W104)• Available during periods 4,5, and 7• After school – 3:00-3:30 PM

Telephone• Prior to 9PM • 443-841-3482

Electronic Mail• rbromwell@loyolablakefield.org

Classroom ProceduresClassroom Procedures

• Drill/ Review

• Five Minute Rule

• Prayer for Creation – Prayer Man

• Classroom Expectations Class manager Time manager Behavior expectations

Objective:

• At the conclusion of this lesson, a student will be able to …define and compare the terms

‘observation’ and ‘inference’

How Scientists View the World

• Events in nature are not haphazard. Explained by physical laws

• We can learn about the world only through our observations.

• An observation is a direct method for obtaining information by using the senses.

What’s happening in this picture?

A cowbird (at right) feeds from a blue-winged warbler.From Nature Conservancy, Sept-Oct 1994.

Inference

• An inference is an assumption based on prior experience

• Made when direct observations are compared to previous observations

• Can lead to a hypothesis

Homework

• Read Course Overview and Classroom Procedures – bring questions tomorrow…

• Dinner Table Test – As you have dinner with your family tonight, listen for observations and inferences that are made by each of your family members as they discuss . Later, make a list of each in your notebook.

• Get ahead? – Read pp 16-21 in Biology