Monsters
Week One.
What are our goals in this class? To talk about monsters, and link the imagination to what is real and what we are trying to learn about. Our first meeting we will just get to know each other and talk about the semester.
Godzilla and fears of radiation, to Fukushima flowers, to why maybe not news.nationalgeographic.com (so learn skepticism) to Stacey Lance and exploring the diversity around Chernobyl...
(something like, talk about Godzilla clip, the origins of Godzilla, along with our introductions etc. on the first class, think about how real science associated)
Class 2 is the Fukushima flowers and info about Stacey Lance research, how radiation affects mutations (really) and what we know about this influence on biology.
Class 3 is Librarian. After class they are assigned to read Gopn & Swan for following weeks (so now they are ready to read some science).
2. Library
3. Sasquatch 2 weeks to distribution of real things
4. Density of unicorns what to learn?
Read these papers for next week.
Let's start off with figuring out where things are, and what we learn from tracking.... SASQUATCH!!! You'll find this paper more reachable than the other one, even if it does involve unicorns.
This second paper is much more difficult - we won't get into the details so much here, but will identify what makes reading papers like this difficult and how terminology is used, while still talking about what this study does in attempting to advance science through unicorns.
Week Two. Now that you have your feet wet, let's think more about why reading science can be hard, and how we can make it better.
Read the paper by Gopen & Swan linked here, and then find a paragraph from one of last week's papers and try rewriting it in a way where the complicated terms aren't so bad. You will work in groups on this on the wiki. So don't stress, help each other out!
Week Three. 9-2-15. Learning how to find out more.
Ian Thomas gives a great presentation on how you can find the science papers (and other types of resources) you need to succeed in your time at UGA!
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