Instructions & Requirements

PowerPoint
due:
6~8 slides
select 6~8 "bits" of information to explain, describe, or discuss
use diagrams and animations as appropriate
define all terms
1st slide is title and must have your name(s)
final silde is source slide
citation of references used (URL or MLA style)
citation for all graphics
E-mailed to Mrs. Nuño ( jdenuno@mhs-la.org)

Oral Presentation
February
5 minutes
correct prounciation

Multiple Choice Questions on content of PowerPoint Presentation
due:
Minimum of 5 Each with 5 choices
Separate document from PowerPoint
E-mailed to Mrs. Nuño ( jdenuno@mhs-la.org)

Test

Multiple Choice
based on questions turned in for each powerpoint

Useful Sites

• Textbook Chapters 10, 11, 25, 29~32
• Guide to Flowering Plant Families
  • http://www.colby.edu/info.tech/BI211/Families.html
• Families of Flowering Plants
  • http://www.biodiversity.uno.edu/delta/angio/
• Diversity of Flowering Plants
  • http://daphne.palomar.edu/wayne/trmar98.htm
• Features of Flowering Plants
  • http://www.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/biologie/b_online/e02/02.htm
• Flowering Plant Structure

  • http://www.nova.edu/ocean/biol1060/plants2.html
• Wildflower Images
  • http://members.nbci.com/jdenuno/Garden/Flora.htm
• Flower Basics
  • http://www.offwell.freeuk.com/flower.htm
• Seed Germination

  Bean Flowers

  Mint Flowers

  Mustard Flowers

  Composite Flowers

  Grass Flowers

  Carnivorous Plants

• Flower Structure
• Monocots and Dicots
• Monocots and Dicots 2
• Land Plant Structure
• Plant Reproduction
• UCBerkeley Botany Glossary
• Survey of the Plant Kingdom
• USPlants Database
• CalFlora Database
• California Native Plants

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Grading

• Project finished on time (20 points)

  • Late = 0 points
• All components included (10 points)

  • minus 5 points for each missing component (title slide, correct citations, definitions of terms)
  • it is possible to get negative points!
• Evidence of selection of relevant information (20 points)

  • information must be relevant to the topic
  • accuracy:
    • minus 5 points for inaccurate information
    • minus 5 points for incorrect spelling
    • minus 5 points for grammar errors
• Evidence of organization (20 points)

  • clear plan
  • selection of 6~8 bits of information
  • explanation and/or discussion of each bit of information
  • definition for any technical term or terms used
• Evidence of preparation for oral presentation (20 points)

  • minus 10 points for reading at audience
  • minus 10 points for presentation that is longer than 2 minutes
  • minus 10 points for incorrect pronunciation
• Multiple Choice Questions (10 points)
  • turned in on time
  • minimum of 5 questions per team member
  • all questions with 5 responses
• Test (100 points)
  • 50 multiple choice questions taken from submitted questions
  • data interpretation
  • graphing

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