New Information

 

This course meets Wednesdays, 4:30-7:00 pm.
The course meets in the Freshman Biology labs, W/2/032.
Prof. Sevian's email address is hannah.sevian@umb.edu

Clarification of a Content Standard (from Prof. Richard Audet, Roger Williams Univ.):
      - Word document
      - HTML file

The link to the Questions Trajectory (for Assignment 4) handed out in class is under the Homework Help section.

Assignment 3 is now due Oct. 29 (S6) not Oct. 22 (S5).
Assignment 1 is now due Oct. 8 (session 3) not Oct. 1 (S2).
Note that Assignment 2 due date has also been moved one week later, to Oct. 15 (S4), so that there won't be two assignments due on the same day.


In class on 10/15, we will participate in a modified "Inventing Density" investigation that is based on the famous work by Eleanor Duckworth. If you would like to read more about her work, please see this article.

Links to PowerPoint presentations from class:
      - From S1 and S2: Advances in the sciences of thinking and learning
If you don't have PowerPoint software, you can download a PowerPoint Viewer for free from Microsoft.

 

At some point, we will preview an EarthComm activity called "Where are the Volcanoes?" from the Earth's Dynamic Geosphere module. Linked here are the Teacher Pages for this activity.