Chapter 16 - Assignments

Textbook Companion

• Go to your textbook companion site:
  • http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072528400/student_view0/
  • Select this chapter from the drop down menu on the left.
• Select chapter 16
• Click the Key Terms Flashcards item on the left.
• Go through the cards until you know all the terms.
• If there are terms that you are not certain how to pronounce,
  • click the glossary
    • Click the first letter of the term at the top of the glossary
    • Scroll down until you see the term. 
    • Click the term and listen to the pronunciation.
    • Practice saying and spelling the term until you are certain you know it.
• Take the test on terms for this chapter.
  • Go to your course blackboard site, click assignments, click the link for this chapter.
  • Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click the link for the terms test.
  • The test is timed and you will only have 10 minutes to take it.  Once you start the test, you must complete it or the test will be locked.  Make certain you watch the clock on the screen so that you submit it on time.

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Course Companion: Web Links

1. Go to your textbook companion site:
   • http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072528400/student_view0/
   • Select this chapter from the drop down menu on the left.
2. Click the link for chapter web links
   • Look at several of the links you think might be interesting
   • Select one for which you want to do a report.
   • If none of them look interesting to you, consider selecting one of these instead:
     • http://plants.usda.gov/
     • http://www.backyardnature.net/names.htm
     • http://theseedsite.co.uk/class.html
     • http://florawww.eeb.uconn.edu/
     • http://www.khake.com/page78.html
     • http://www.habitas.org.uk/gardenflora/taxa.htm
     • http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/hort/consumer/quickref/general/scientific_names.html
     • http://www.dgsgardening.btinternet.co.uk/naming.htm
3. Write a brief summary of what you learned from reading the report.  You must have at least three specific statements of things you learned (or found interesting).  You must include both the name of the reading and the URL in your summary.
4. Post your summary on the class discussion board as a reply to the appropriate thread. 
5. Read at least one of the summaries that your classmates have posted.  Reply to your classmate's summary with a list of at least two things you found interesting about that summary.  You must make an original reply.  Any replies that appear very similar to the replies of another student will not receive credit.  It would probably be best to reply to a summary that does not have a reply to make certain that your reply is unique.

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Review/Discussion/Summary

At the end of the chapter, you will find a summary, review questions, and discussion questions for the chapter.  Read the summary, the review questions, and discussion questions.  Go to the class discussion board.  Click the thread for review/discussion/summary.  Read the postings of your classmates.  YOU MAY NOT post the same review question, discussion question or summary point as any of your classmates. 

• If you select a review question, you must state the question and then answer it completely.
• If you choose a discussion question, you must state the question and then answer it completely.
• If you choose a summary question, you must state the the summary point and then expand on it.  For example if you select summary 7 from chapter 1, you would answer something like:
  • Botany, the study of plants, apparently began with Stone Age peoples' practical uses of plants. Eventually, botany became a science as intellectual curiosity about plants arose.  Botany is considered because the scientific method which describes the procedures of assuming and testing hypotheses, is used when studying botany.

Your posting must be accurate and must use good grammar.  The subject of your posting should be:

• review # OR
• discussion # OR
• Summary #

where # represents the number of the item.

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Lab Work

• Think about what you want to do for your final project.  There are many options.  Here are some ideas.  Don't be limited by these possibilities. 
  • Plants for human consumption
  • Plants for landscaping
  • Gardens for fun and food
  • Plants for sale
  • Plants as presented by nature.
    • Nature centers
    • State/national parks
    • Wetlands
• Think about were you could go to learn more about the topic of your choice
  • If you were interested in plants for human consumption you could visit a produce store and a supermarket or an orchard or a U-pick berry farm or even farmer's market.
  • If you were interested in plants for landscaping, you could contact a local landscape company or possibility a local building supply store that also handled plants.
  • If you were interested in gardens, you could attend meetings from a local garden club or visit an arboretum or the gardens at a local university.
  • If you were interested in plants for sale, you could visit a greenhouse, the garden center at a local building center or supermarket, or even the farmer's market.
  • For Plants as presented by nature contact the local parks and recreation center and ask for a listing of what is available in your area or contact the local state parks and recreation office.
• On the discussion board post what you think might be good topics and good sources.  You must post at least 3 possible topics and three possible sources.  Read any responses made by your classmates. 
• Try to narrow down your topics to one, because you will need to write intension paragraphs for each topic.
• Write
  • what topic you want to use for this field trip
  • why you have selected this field trip.... specifically what do you expect to learn about botany on this field trip.
  • a outline of the MAJOR steps you will follow when you do this field trip.
  • List at least two places you might visit.
  • List at least one source of information about this topic that you can use BEFORE your field trip and to help you understand what all you saw after the field trip.
• Save the paper you have written with your intentions as described in Chapter 9's seed project.
• Upload this paper in the assignment area of your course in the chapter 16 folder.

If you absolutely can not find a different field trip that you might use, you may make a virtual fieldtrip to the Kellogg nature center

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Chapter Quiz

There will be a 20 question quiz for each chapter.  The quiz is open book and notes, but it is timed and you will only have 15 minutes to answer the 20 quiz questions.  However, you may take the test as many times as you want.  Each time to take the quiz, you will be presented with 20 questions randomly selected from the chapter test pool.  NOTE:  For the final exam you will NOT be allowed to use notes or take the exam more than once, but the questions will come from the test pools for chapters 13-24.  To take the chapter quiz,

• Scroll down to the bottom of the assignments page for this chapter in blackboard.  (Click assignments, intro assignment to get back here)
• Click the "take quiz" link below the Chapter Quiz label.
• You only have 15 minutes for the quiz, BUT
• You may take it again and again as often as you want until the due date for the assignment is past.

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