Calendar for UNIV 1301

#13810 and #13811

Fall 2002

 

Highlights:         Homework Due            Outside of Class

In-class Student Activity           Deadline

This calendar is subject to constant change.

 

Monday August 26

Wednesday August 28

Friday August 30

Discussion of Syllabus

Ice breaker

Dividing into Groups

Reading: “Radical Equations”

Reading Assessment Test (RAT)

 

Wednesday September 4

Friday September 6

 

Reading: “From Geocentric to Heliocentric Cosmology”

FEAT Evaluation

Discussion of Reading Assignment

What is velocity...?

Group Activity: Constant Velocity

Monday September 9

Wednesday September 11

Friday September 13

Constant Velocity

Group Activity: Free Fall Velocity

Chapter 2¨ 

Working in Groups

The Role of Language in      Science and Engineering

Time Management (RAT)

Time Management (cont’d.)

Monday September 16

Wednesday September 18

Friday September 20

Library Visit/

How to do Power Point Presentations

How to do Power Point Presentations/Library Visit

 

Group Activity: Acceleration

Monday September 23

Wednesday September 25

Friday September 27

Acceleration on the Moon

Group Activity: Acceleration (cont’d)

Small Group Reflection

Meeting of PPT groups

Practice Test

Practice Test

 

Last Day to see Jessica or Gabriela

Chapter 6

UTEP Career Expo (9/26/02 and 9/27/02)

Monday September 30

Wednesday October 2

Friday October 4

Test 1

Career Expo documentation

Campus Events

Book List

Test-Taking Strategies

Group Activity: Astronomy

Monday October 7

Wednesday October 9

Friday October 11

Dr. Benjamin Flores:

Academic (Dis)honesty

October 8: Last day to sign up on book list

Chapter 6

Copernicus etc. (cont’d)

Taking Notes

Book List (Readers)

Book Review Instructions

Copernicus etc. (cont’d)

Taking Notes (cont’d)

Monday October 14

Wednesday October 16

Friday October 18

Group Activity: Kepler’s Third Law

Kepler’s Third Law

Kepler and Newton 

Last Day for W-Drops

Homecoming

Monday October 21

Wednesday October 23

Friday October 25

Reminders for PPTs

Advising for Spring 2003

Janus and Epimetheus

Kepler’s Third Law (2nd round)

PPT Presentations:

Ptolemy

Newton

Last Day to see Dr. Knaust

(for scheduling: call 747-6083)

PPT Presentations:

Lavoisier

Metric System

Monday October 28

Wednesday October 30

Friday November 1

PPT Presentations:

Lamarck

Darwin

PPT Presentations:

Mendel

Watt

PPT Presentations:

Edison

Heaviside

Monday November 4

Wednesday November 6

Friday November 8

Final Remarks on PPTs

Exponential Growth

Quiz on PPTs

Exponential Growth (cont’d)

Quiz - Answers

New Group-Assignment

Monday November 11

Wednesday November 13

Friday November 15

Group Activity: Exponential Growth

 

El Paso’s Population

Logistic Growth (spreadsheet)

 

Monday November 18

Wednesday November 20

Friday November 22

Logistic Growth

Pandemonium – Steel Drum Concert  7:30 p.m. Fox Fine Arts

Group Activity: Kepler’s 3rd Law

Group Activity: Exponential Growth

Test Preparation

Last Day to see Ms. Dahl

(for scheduling: call 747-6083)  

Test 2

Dr. Landrigen: Lead Poisoning

2:00 p.m. UGLC 128

Monday November 25

Wednesday November 27

 

Lynx and Hare

Predator-Prey-Model

FEAT Evaluation

 

Monday December 2

Wednesday December 4

 

 Book Reports due

Last Day of Classes

Darwin and Mendel

 

 

 

Friday December 13

 

 

13:00-15:45 Final Examination

10/9/2005 21:42:52



¨ Chapter assignments refer to: Dave Ellis, Becoming a Master Student, Houghton-Mifflin, 10th edition.