Ben Carter
A neuroscientist trying to figure out how the brain does it all. I use MRI and data science methods to study neurophysiology and structure. Currently leading a team of undergraduates in a novel study.
Day 1
ZOOL 2425
Do you have your lab manual?
GET IT
Introduce yourselves
Ideas for lab group intro's:
- Name
- Home town
- What you wish you did over the break.
- Hopes and aspirations
The Carters
Typical Agenda
- Questions/Review - 10 minutes
- Quiz - 20 minutes
- Lab - 1.5-2 hours
- Review Lab Material/Q&A
- Prep for next week
Course Syllabus
And some thoughts on this course
Course Purpose
- The purpose of this course is simple:
- Demonstrate the governing principles that enable human life through the use of effective model systems, simulations, experimentation, and discussion
- Give students the knowledge, skills and confidence to predict the function of and manipulate physiological systems to meet specific goals in conjunction with a team of colleagues
- Prepare students for a more in depth study of physiology as they prepare to be researchers and health care providers.
Primary Learning Outcomes
- By the end of this course students should:
- Know the basic laws by which human physiology is governed.
- Be adept at working in a team to both learn and explore principles that are difficult to understand and support each other in the investigative process.
- Have confidence in their understanding of human physiology.
Learning Assessments/Graded Assignments
- Weekly Lab Reports
- Weekly Quizzes
- Lab Final
Lab Reports
- Due at the beginning of each class before the quiz.
- Completed as a group, everyone turns in an individual copy.
- One lab per group is selected and graded at random and everyone gets that grade.
- When studying from the lab please refer to the lab report that was graded.
- One is dropped.
- If you start slacking-off I will grade your lab individually.
Tests and Quizzes
- Quizzes
- There are a total of 11
- One is dropped
- 12 questions per quiz
- Final Exam
- 120 points
My contact information
- Contact me through the Canvas Page or email.
- Email: Benjamin.Carter@uvu.edu
- Office hours: by request
- Office: This lab
Safety Review
A word about clothing
- Chemical resistant goggles (UVEX 9301 or Stealth).
- Closed toe shoes
- No visible skin from clavicle to ankles.
- Sheer clothing ≠ coverage.
- Torn jeans ≠ coverage.
How to Study
What is cramming?
Massed study at the last minute prior to a quiz, test, exam or other graded assignment.
This course
Crammers
Spacing effect
The finding that for a given amount of study time, temporally separate presentations yield better learning than massed presentation.
Use the Lab Manual
- The day of or day after lab, for the next lab:
- Read the lab objectives
- Read pre-lab reading
- 2+ days before lab: read the lab introduction.
- Before class: read the lab procedures.
Make Flash Cards
Use Lab reports
- Use objectives
- Definitions
- Bold terms
- Equations/equilibriums
- Conceptual questions
Also use the Final Exam Study Guide on Canvas today!
Study your flash cards for 20-30 minutes every day.
Review the Quizzes
They are available for review after all sections have taken them.
Hypothetical Study Schedule
- Day of Lab
- Do Pre-reading for next lab
- Make flash cards
- Review last quiz
- Day after lab
- Do/finish 1.1-1.2
- Review flash cards
- Review flash cards
- Review flash cards
- Read lab introduction, make additional flash cards
- Review flash cards
- Read lab procedure, Review flash cards
- Lab Day
Safety Quiz
Open note/neighbor
Start Lab 1
Core Principles
For next week:
pH & Buffers lab
- Wear goggles, closed-toe shoes, and long pants.
- Read the lab procedures
- Study:
- Stanfield pages 496-499, 554-560
- Silverthorn pages 41, 45, 642-643
- If you have time: Putnam, Optimizing Learning in College, 2016 (on Canvas in Files).
ZOOl-2425 Intro & Lab 1
By Ben Carter
ZOOl-2425 Intro & Lab 1
Introductory Lecture for Human Physiology Lab, ZOOL-2425
