Week #1

  1. Review the class syllabus.

  2. Complete Assignment #1.

  3. If you have a personal computer, purchase MS Office CD from Computer Store.  Install the MS Office suite of applications, especially MS Excel, on your computer.

  4. Read the material found at each of the following links:

What is Science?

Science, Religion and Evolution (Required) - http://www.ncseweb.org/resources/articles/528_science_religion_and_evoluti_6_19_2001.asp

Read the entire article, we will focus on the material that precedes the THE CREATION/EVOLUTION CONTINUUM and later sections of the manuscript.

On Being a Scientist (http://books.nap.edu/html/obas/)

Introduction

Required - http://books.nap.edu/html/obas/contents/introduction.html

The Social Foundations of Science

Required - http://books.nap.edu/html/obas/contents/social.html

Scientific Method (Will be discussed at next week's lab)

Required - http://www.visionlearning.com/library/module_viewer.php?mid=45

Required - http://biology.clc.uc.edu/courses/bio104/sci_meth.htm

Required - http://phyun5.ucr.edu/~wudka/Physics7/Notes_www/node5.html

Supplemental - http://www.isd77.k12.mn.us/resources/cf/SciProjInter.html

Fun - http://classweb.gmu.edu/nclc120/f04/alerts/The Scientific Method for Dates Overhead.doc

Statistics

Required (Review) - http://www.cas.lancs.ac.uk/glossary_v1.1/basicdef.html

Experimental Design

Required - http://sportsci.org/resource/design/design.html  Read only through the section titled SAMPLES.

Required - http://allpsych.com/researchmethods/introduction.html