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Welcome!!. to. Biology 3A. Inez Devlin-Kelly 2007. Student Success. Decrease course load Reduce job hours Schedule family obligations Attend Class. Student Success. Website Review Sessions Student Assistants Student Tutors Videos Field Trips Podcasts!!. Website. www.bioprof.org

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  1. Welcome!! to Biology 3A Inez Devlin-Kelly 2007

  2. Student Success • Decrease course load • Reduce job hours • Schedule family obligations • Attend Class

  3. Student Success • Website • Review Sessions • Student Assistants • Student Tutors • Videos • Field Trips • Podcasts!!

  4. Website • www.bioprof.org • Get your free e-mail account • Computer center help desk or • https//intranet.kccd.edu.aacms/ • Click on “create account”

  5. Review Sessions • Before each exam • Led by Student Assistants • Practice lab practicals

  6. Student Assistants • Earned A or B in Bio 3A • Always Glad to help • Picked by me

  7. Student Tutors • Tutoring Center • Sign up early • Tutors all took THIS course • Ask for a tutor who took my class • Free

  8. Videos • Gades Card • Library Circulation desk • Watch in Library • Take home overnight

  9. Field Trips • Tidepools in Monterey

  10. Field Trips • Los Angeles Zoo • Primate Behavior

  11. Field Trips • Roar ‘n Snore • San Diego Wild Animal Park

  12. Field Trips • Bird Watching • On campus • Hart Park • Great Backyard Bird Count

  13. Field Trips • Body Worlds • CA Science Ctr • Details To Be Announced

  14. Field Trips • Desert ecology • Mojave desert

  15. PODCASTS!! • Posted on website by date • .mp3 format • Downloadable to your computer • Can be transferred to your iPod or other .mp3 player • www.bioprof.org

  16. Books • Buy now • Texts • Lab Manuals

  17. Textbooks • BIOLOGY, 7TH ed., Campbell & Reece • A Life Science Lexicon, Wm. Marchuk (Out of print--buy used?) • Dictionary of Roots and Combining Forms, D. Borror

  18. Textbooks • Used for both Bio 3A and 3B • Use as reference • Use Index and Table of Contents

  19. Lexicon • 3 copies for use in lab • Library Circulation Desk • Use for 4 to 5 assignments

  20. Lab Manuals • A Photographic Atlas for the Biology Laboratory, 5th ed. VanDeGraff & Crowley (4th OK) • INVESTIGATIONS: A Critical Thinking Approach to the Biology Laboratory, I. Devlin-Kelly (Day-glo yellow) 4th Edition

  21. Attendance • Grades are attendance related • Labs • are NOT optional • more fun than the Dentist! • No make-up labs • Don’t leave during lecture

  22. Always turn off phones!! • No Texting!!

  23. Examinations • Tests and Practicals announced • Pop quizes (no make-ups) • No Lab Practical make-ups • Lecture make-ups • arrange within 1 week • essay • returned last week of semester

  24. Exams • Don’t even think of cheating!

  25. Exams • Pencil with good eraser • Take off your hat, sunglasses, .mp3 • Turn off cell phones & put away • #882E scantron (6) Hand in to T.A. during lab • Answer key available in labs

  26. Your Grade • Lecture = 50% • Lab = 50% • Keep all papers

  27. To contact me: • OFFICE HOURS: 43c S&E Bldg • (Blue door in breezeway) • Mon: 4:30-5:30pm, 8:50-9:20pm • Tues: 11:04am-12:50 • Wed: 10:00am-11:00 • Sun: 7-8pm Virtual Office Hour at • home: bcbioprof@mac.com

  28. To contact me: • OFFICE: 43c S&E Bldg (Blue door in breezeway) • PHONE: 661.395.4449 • EMAIL: • school: ikelly@bakersfieldcollege.edu • home: bcbioprof@mac.com

  29. And • On with your Biological Adventure...

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