Getting to Know You
For homework this week, please create a Powerpoint slide (or other graphic of a similar size) to introduce yourself to your classmates. Please include:
- Your major focus of study at COM (or something that interests you if you’re undeclared), and some thoughts about what you want to do as a career after you graduate
- Share with us some of the things you like to do outside of class: hobbies, activities, travel adventures, etc.
- Feel free to include photos of your PETS! 😉
- Optional: photograph(s) of yourself and your personal pronouns
Once your slide is complete:
- Save it in an image format (.jpg or .png)
- Use the “Reply” feature to upload it to this discussion.
- Navigate to the “Upload Image” feature
- Drag and drop your slide image into the Upload Image pop up
- You do not need to enter “Alt Text” – instead, just check the “Decorative Image” box
- Make sure that “Embed Image” is selected
- Click “Submit”
- When you are back in the Reply window, make sure that your image is visible. If you have a link instead of an image, you have not uploaded your image correctly, and you probably won’t get as many people to comment on your slide. If that happens, please walk through the instructions above again in order to receive full credit for this assignment.
- Once everything looks right, hit “Reply”
You can see the slide I made below, as an example. Next week, I will ask you to return to this discussion and comment on some of your classmates’ slides.
Nutrition Tracking
- Download or copy the worksheet, then track your food and beverage intake for 5 days, or use data from a sample meal plan (included in worksheet)
- Deliverable: complete the worksheet and submit to Canvas as a PDF file.
Your Inner Fish
Students viewed this documentary and completed the viewing questions below.
https://www.pbs.org/video/your-inner-fish-program-your-inner-fish-2
- Why do you think that this series on evolution is called “Your Inner Fish”?
- Even though we don’t look much like fish, what are some things that we have in common with fish? How does this give evidence for common ancestry?
- What is one defining piece of human anatomy that seems remote from fish? How did scientists show that this piece of human anatomy has its origin in ancestral fish?
- Where did Dr. Neil Shubin and his colleague Dr. Ted Daeschler look for transitional fish? What did Dr. Daeschler find, and what was significant about the discovery?
- What did Dr. Jenny Clack find in Greenland in the 1980’s, and what was significant about her discovery?
- What was significant about the map of North America highlighting Devonian era rocks? What was the challenge they would have finding fossils there and what did they do to overcome those challenges?
- What was the “needle in the haystack” that they were looking for in the Canadian fossils? Why was it important?
- Why were the fish embryos that Dr. Shubin studied in the summer significant? What can happen when things go wrong in embryological development of the gill arches? How does this provide evidence of our fish ancestry?
- How do dropping gonads in human embryos provide evidence for fish ancestry?
- What did Dr. Cliff Tabin discover studying chick embryos and why was his work significant?
- What is the “Sonic Hedgehog” gene responsible for?
- Why do people like Kamani have extra digits? (How does this work on the genetic level?)
- What was the “gold” found during the second week of July in 2004 in Jason’s ancient river bed? What was significant about the find?
- What did Tiktaalik use its neck for in the water?
- What are some of the forms the descendants of Tiktaalik evolved in their limbs?