Biology Semester 2
Biology Semester 2 is completed in Apex Learning Software.
Getting Started
It also has ideas on how to do some stuff in Courseware.
Make sure you submit documents that can be opened by a PC. I cannot open .pages or .key files. They are Mac files.
Unit 3 Ecosystems and Natural Selection
Do the Dry Lab
Unit 4 Evolution and Classification
Do the Dry Lab
Unit 5 Human Biology
Do the Dry Lab
Course categories and weights
Other Stuff
Unit Tests and The Final can be taken twice and require the teacher to reset them. The reset has to be 24 hours after the completion of the first try.
It may not be obvious, but the grade is actually counted based on total points. So (points earned divided by total points possible) x 100 = final percentage grade. The categories are not weighted by percentages. The category is weighted because there are more points available in a category. This means 1 point on the final has the same weight as 1 point on a lab, which has the same weight as 1 point on an explore. This is not calculated like the atomic mass. It is not a weighted average.
Academic Integrity- what you should or should not use for answers in discussions or constructed response questions
Students will only earn full credit for assignments if Ms. Getz can tell that independent thought was used. If you trick her into giving you full credit, "yay" for you. It would be best if you still learned how to think for yourself.
I am noticing the same mistakes coming through from wherever people are copying answers. I was nice until I realized the same wrong answers are showing up, so now I am putting out a global warning: if you turn in an assignment that looks closely like someone else’s because you copy and pasted from the same place, you risk being told to put it in your own words and not earn points until you redo the activity in your own words. If you include a citation telling where you are pulling information, I may give you some points if you find good information. Not all of the places where you are finding answers are answers that match our questions. Sure, it looks like they do online, but the experts you are using are not experts. They’re just very nice people who want to help students finish their homework.
Microsoft’s browser, Edge, does not copy the URL when you try to copy it. It will give you the page name instead of the URL. When you paste this into courseware, the URL gets lost. If you can use Chrome or Firefox to grab the URL, please do.
You turn in your assignments to be scored by sending me a message in Apex Learning. You can attach a variety of documents, including images. In the subject of the message, please put in the number of the activity. If the attachment is one of many images for the activity, please name the file with the number of the activity and image number like 1.3.5 image 1, 1.3.5 image 2, and so on.