Schedule for the first 2 weeks of school

• Tues 9/2:  Introduction to class, fill out Student Information Sheet, hand out Safety and Academic Honesty Contracts (due signed by Tues 9/9), Demonstrate Early Work, Start Brine Shrimp Lab (counting cysts).  Bring TI-84 calculators this week and next.
• Thurs 9/4:  Review brine shrimp calculations.  Count live shrimp and calculate percent hatching.  Hand out significant figure rules and worksheet.  Go over calculating average and uncertainty and counting sig figs and do 1-9, 18-20, and the back of the worksheet for Monday.
• Mon 9/8:  Characteristics of a good graph.  Using LoggerPro to make good graphs.  Graph the data from the 2 data tables on the back of the significant figure worksheet.
• Tues 9/9:  Turn in signed Safety and Academic Honesty contracts if not already.  Calculating with significant figures and propagating the uncertainty.  Finish sig. figs. worksheet.  Finish Brine Shrimp Hand-Out (calculate the uncertainty of the percent hatching, showing work).  Turn in completed Brine Shrimp Counting Lab hand-out today or Thursday.  Significant Figure worksheet sheet is due Thursday.  If time, use TI-84 calculators to work through TI-84 activity.
• Thurs 9/11:  Turn in significant figures worksheet and Brine Shrimp Lab..  Finish TI-84 activity and work through statistics packet, including making a frequency distribution and familiarizing yourself with the formulas for standard deviation and t-test.  Turn TI-84 Activity in today.  Statistics Packet is due Tuesday 9/16.