Welcome

Welcome

BIOLOGY COURSE

To your

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Biology Teamwork Members

Biol. José Manuel Téllez Carmona

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Irma Patricia Soto

Adrian Acuña

Values and attitudes

• Honesty • Leadership • Confidence • Group Work • Gratitude • Humility • Self-learning • Friendship

• Responsibility• Enterprising• Innovators • Positive• Personal Growth • Assertive • Work culture• Punctuality

• Clear conscience of the necessities of MEXICO and its regions.

• Commitment with the sustainable development of MEXICO and its communities.

• Commitment to act as agents of change.

• Respect for Nature.• Respect to PEOPLE´s dignity,

duties and rights. Such as the right to the truth, the freedom and the legal security.

• Regard to culture. • Commitment with the care of its

physical health. • Vision of the international

surroundings.

Professor• Be consistent with students to form

people with the values, attitudes and abilities established by Instituto Mexicano Madero and UMAD

• Be responsible practicing example of these values, attitudes and abilities for the students.

• Higher Academic Degree to the level in which they teach.

• Updated knowledge in its professional specialty.

• Punctuality• Fairness • Empathy • Honesty • Quality • Understanding • Exigency • Tolerance • Respect

General Objective

To get a general view of the development of Biology, as well as, the basic mechamisms developed by the cell, and be able to extrapolate them to metabolic functions for living things and to master the importance between them and the environment, to produce better proposals for the better use of the natural resources.

In your course of BIOLOGY we will work using Collaborative Learning Technique, that can be described, as an interaction philosophy with individual way of working than a simple technique. So it requires much work from you, talking about the way you manage respect to individuals and others contributions, and abilities, such as teamwork; in addition you will be able to:- Solve problems- Answer to questions- Formulate own questions - Discussion and explanation

Course Methodology

-Absences: maximum 3 session class during the bimestral evaluation(To justify the absence with your Assesor)-Time of arrival: maximum 5 minutes after the hour-Time of departure: 5 minutes before the hour (NOBODY CAN GET IN AFTER TEACHER´S ALLOWING…)- Food and beverages are not allowed in class (JUST WATER)- Do not use cellular telephone or nextel, or any other device- To leave the room you must ask permission the professor- The use of laptops (in the case of) only in indicated activities- Keep the room clean, and at the end of the class chairs and

table must be in its place.

Course Policies

Skills and Development

1. Biology: A general View

To understand the importance of Biology as a science that can be applied in different areas.

To learn the main branches in Biology, areas of study and to discover some of the scientific advances, that Biology has contibuted to the humanity, as well as its implications that these have had.

2. Levels of organization of matter

To identify the function of the inortanic and organic compounds in Living Things (, Carbohydrates, Lipids, aminoacids, proteins, nucleic acids, Water, carbon dioxide .

To analize the function and structure of cells.

3. A view of cell

- Identify the structure

- Identify function

- Learn about cellular transport and cell cycle

- Energy in a cell (Photosynthesis, Krebs Cycle, Quimiosynthesis)

- Meiosis and Mitosis

4. Evolution and biotic diversity

- Understand the mechanisms and theories of evolution (Oparin-Haldane, Darwin-Wallace)

- Identify how to organize life´s diversity

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Evaluation

FOR EACH PARTIAL EVALUATION: Two (one for bimester)Process and products 30%Homework 15 %Assignments and class activites 15 %Conscious attitudinal performance 30%Quizzes 10 %Project (completed stage) 10 %Collaborative works and behave 10 %

Knowledge 40% Partial Exam 50 %

SEMESTER EVALUATION:

Average of 2 bimesters = 9 Exception

PROJECT…DATES

• First Stage

• Second Stage

• Third Stage

• FINAL STAGE

Biology Project (Teamwork: 3-4 students)Biology Project (Teamwork: 3-4 students)

Objective:Develop a model to explain biologycal processes

Select a topic.

1st stage September 2011• Research about the topic• Give the essentials to relate the biology topic with the

choosen model• Give the “question/answer” for each model

2nd stage

Establish the prototype

• Design the model • Describe in detail the process, function and

relation of it• The idea must be in a DRAFT but with the

complete idea developed• Importance of it (References required)

3rd stage

Bring the COMPLETE MODEL. It will be a MODEL in different ways: hanging movil, mini building “maqueta”

Final presentation

Final Date April

Partial Evaluations

1st bimester: 2nd bimester: Final evaluation

Course Ends on…

Bibliography• Biología, The dynamics of life (2004)

AUTHORS: Alton Biggs, Hagins et al.

EDITION: 7th RELEASE: 2004-08-06

PUBLISHER: Glencoe Mc Graw Hill