All assignments and reports are due at the beginning of class on the due date. Late papers are not accepted and receive no credit. If your paper is more than one page in length, you must staple the pages together. Pages held together with folded edges or paper clips will not be graded. If you use spiral-bound notebook paper, please cut off the rough edges before submitting your assignment.

Due dates for assignments, projects and reports will be announced in class on the day the report or assignment is given. Many assignment, project and report due dates are also listed on the syllabus and course calendar. Credit received for assignments and reports will be added to the total course point total. You are responsible for assignments even if you do not attend class on the day an assignment is announced, or for some reason, fail to note the assignment at the time it is announced. If you anticipate being late to class on the day an assignment is due, you should turn your assignment in early in the Science Office, L-200.

1. Growing Project One component of your Biology 213 experience is a propagation project that involves actively working with plants and living organisms. The propagation assignment is on the lab exercises website. In addition, you are encouraged to use the space we have been allotted in the BCC greenhouse to do additional growing projects of your own design. The instructor will help you obtain the materials you need to complete your project as much as possible. Each student will be responsible for maintaining a daily journal of the propagation project, as detailed on the propagation exercise. The time needed for these projects will be outside of our normal class periods. Growing plants requires daily observation, including weekends. Your propagation journal should include the following:
   • Purpose of the project
   • Procedure - what did you do to start the project
   • Daily record of your observations about the project Ð data recording) You are encouraged to keep a photographic or video record of your activities, which will help you to see the progress you and your plants have made during the ten weeks.
   • Project summary - what happened, analysis and conclusions

   Your growing project report and journal due date is listed on the class syllabus/calendar.
   

2. Prokaryote - Protist - Fungi Poster Project
   Each of you will be assigned* a phylum, class or some other thing about Prokaryotes, Protists or Fungi. You will prepare a poster about that group, including illustrations, definitive features, environmental role, human interest, human impact, etc. You should use internet resources in addition to text material to complete this project. The posters need not be large (no trifolds required) but must be valuable resource material for other students. In addition, you will submit to the instructor a brief summary of the significance of this group. References must be included.

   Your poster project due date, review times for poster evaluations and the poster evaluations due dates are listed on the class syllabus/calendar.

   Each student will examine all posters, and write down on the worksheet provided for each poster a significant feature learned about the group represented for each poster, and the grade you would assign the poster based on the teaching effectiveness of the poster (that is - how much could you learn from that poster about the group being presented). Posters should be taken down no later than 5:00 pm PDT on the final evaluation date. Points will be deducted from your grade for posters not removed by that time. * An assignment sign-up sheet for the poster topics will be available at an appropriate time. You can trade assignments if mutually acceptable, or, if two or three want to work collaboratively, you can do so, but individual posters must be done. That is, three of you could work together on three posters. You will all earn the same grade based on the collective three posters.

3. Final Exam Take-home
   One part of your Biology 213 final exam is a take-home essay. You will address major themes of biology (emergent properties, form and function, unity and diversity, and evolution) in the context of one of the subject areas discussed in Biology 213. Your paper due date due date is listed on the class syllabus/calendar.. It should be word-processed. You should be thinking in terms of your year of biology and the interconnectedness of all areas covered.

4. Ecology Presentation Each of you will be assigned a section from the ecology unit of Biology 213. You will do a presentation to the class to teach other students about this ecological area of study. A guideline for presentation length is about 10 - 15 minutes per person. You may need more time. An assignment sign-up sheet will be available at an appropriate time. If you wish to work in groups, you may need to trade assignments with other students so that groups are working on "similar" areas of ecology. For example, if you are interested in biomes, you might make a group to collaborate on all biomes.

   Attendance is required during the ecology presentations. Points will be deducted from your project score for each day missed, or if you are late to class.

   In addition, you will submit for the section you present, either one "written" question or three multiple choice questions to be considered for the ecology unit exam. Your questions should be well thought out and appropriate for the level of course material of Biology 213 at BCC. The questions (and answers) are to be posted on the class exams and quizzes website page* and e-mailed to the instructor.

   *Please note: The Ecology assignment lists and the exams and quizzes page are password protected. You must have the password from your instructor prior to posting your questions or checking questions submitted by other students.

5. Additional Assignments and Projects
   Just in case you aren't busy enough, you may be given additional assignments to complete and turn in during the quarter. Credit received for such assignments will be added to the total course point total. You are responsible for assignments even if you do not attend class on the day an assignment is announced, or for some reason, fail to note the assignment at the time it is announced.