First Week of School!

• Mon 8/29:  Take roll, demonstrate early work, overview of Class Expectations (see Class Expectations in the Document section and read it), get textbooks, start Brine Shrimp Lab.
• Wed 8/31:  Hand out Safety and Academic Honesty Contracts.  Please sign them and get a parent or guardian to sign them by next Wednesday 9/7.  Calculate number of brine shrimp on the grid, showing your work.  Count number of live shrimp for 3-4 different samples.  Calculate number of hatched shrimp and calculate percent hatched.  Share this number with the class.  Use a TI-84 calculator to do the TI-84 activity on the back of the Brine Shrimp lab handout.  Start working on the Significant Figures and Uncertainty worksheet.
• Fri 9/2: Notes on counting and calculating with significant figures.  Calculating mean and uncertainty.  Do all of the worksheet except 21-25 for now.  We will go over those later.   Meaning of t-test.  Do a t-test on the class data to determine if there was a significant different in hatching percentage between shrimp placed in 2% versus 3% solution.  Brine Shrimp write-up (directions to come later) submitted by next Friday 9/9 through turnitin.com