Checkout the IgNobel prize winners. Research that first makes people laugh, then makes them think. For example, the medicine award went to the brilliant topic…
Termination of Intractable Hiccups with Digital Rectal Massage
The rest of the winners can be found here…
The next progress checkpoint is due on Monday, December 4th. At that time you should have created a rough draft of the final paper. It should be in APA format with all the appropriate sections and formatting. All current information should be in the draft including a fully written introduction with background research and a fully written materials and methods section. All results to date should be included as well as any graphs of that data - more data may be added prior to the final paper. All sources should be correctly cited and all acknowledgements should be completed.
More information on APA can be found in the senior research section of the Charter webpage.
Test on Tuesday, 11/28/06 on everything we have covered thus far. Particular attention should be directed to the case study, lung anatomy/physiology/diseases and imaging techniques (xray, ct, mri)
Read pages 836-844 including ‘related terms’
Answer the Clinical Questions on page 839
Answer the Clinical Application questions # 1, 2 on page 847
You must memorize the key terms in the Brief History of Time document and be ready for a quiz by Tuesday, November 20th. I will give you the same document with key words missing and you must fill in the missing terms.
You must re-type the paper I gave you as a document on the google documents site. You should retype it exactly as I gave it to you. You will be adding to it as we go on throughout the course and I will be making comments on what you add. Therefore you must also share the document with me as a collaborator, not just a viewer.
Due: Thursday, 11/9/06
Checkout the National Geographic webcams in Africa and Canada. See elephants and polar bears as well as other wildlife. Look under the General Resources tab in my homepage menu or go to one of the following links.
http://www9.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/wildcamafrica/index.html
http://www9.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/polarbearcam/index.html
As a group you will research job listings for your assigned job title as well as find two more job listings for any 2 ’specialist’ we talked about in class. For each you will write down the educations requirements, other qualifications, salary and any other pertinent or interesting information.
The assigned people are:
911 dispatcher
police officer
coroner/medical examiner
criminalist/csi
detective
district attorney/prosecutor
plus any two other specialists or forensic positions not listed above.