In-Class Activities:
1) Neuron Notes. You wrote a new question on consciousness.
2) Consciousness Activities Assignment Explained. You can choose between: recording your day dreams, collecting 50 random thoughts from people, analyzing your night dreams, or trying to wake yourself in stage 1 sleep and solve a problem through sleep.
3) Circadian Rhythm. We talked about your body's natural rhythm in a 24-hour period and you watched a video of Michel Siffre who lived in a cave in Texas for 7 months to see what would happen without any time cues (i.e. the moon, sun, etc.).
4) Hypnosis. You watched video clips of people being hypnotized and what they will say/do. Cool!
5) Drugs and Alcohol. You received several short articles on the topics of drugs and alcohol to read including: caffeine, the date rape drug, medical marijuana, drug abuse treatment, and more.
Assignments:
1) Finish chapter 7 (if you haven't).
2) REVIEW!! The test on Monday is cumulative and you should study with someone!
Sunday, November 16, 2008
November 4: Review Test/ Start Consciousness
In-Class Activities:
1) Neuron Notes. You wrote a new question on consciousness.
2) Review Test on Sensation and Perception. We went over the tricky questions from the test on chapters 5 & 6. This was a hard test for many of you. I curved the test, making it out of 95. I wonder if the difficulty came from the new content, your preparation, or that this is a busy time of the year for many of you...
3) Consciousness Lecture. We completed a survey on our sleep debt and found that most of you are sleep deprived (and some of you need to go to bed and stop reading this blog!!). We discussed the need to get through all the 5 cycles of a night's sleep in order to get the REM you need to be ready for each day. I lectured about the importance of melotonin, not taking huge afternoon naps (longer than an hour), and more. Hopefully some of you will take the book's advice and just go to bed 15 minutes earlier each night and see how you feel.
Assignments:
1) Read chapter 7.
2) Next test is cumulative -- chpaters 1 through 7.
1) Neuron Notes. You wrote a new question on consciousness.
2) Review Test on Sensation and Perception. We went over the tricky questions from the test on chapters 5 & 6. This was a hard test for many of you. I curved the test, making it out of 95. I wonder if the difficulty came from the new content, your preparation, or that this is a busy time of the year for many of you...
3) Consciousness Lecture. We completed a survey on our sleep debt and found that most of you are sleep deprived (and some of you need to go to bed and stop reading this blog!!). We discussed the need to get through all the 5 cycles of a night's sleep in order to get the REM you need to be ready for each day. I lectured about the importance of melotonin, not taking huge afternoon naps (longer than an hour), and more. Hopefully some of you will take the book's advice and just go to bed 15 minutes earlier each night and see how you feel.
Assignments:
1) Read chapter 7.
2) Next test is cumulative -- chpaters 1 through 7.
Saturday, November 1, 2008
October 31: Boo! A Scary Test!
In-Class Activities:
1) No Neuron Note questions or answers today.
3) Collect Sensation/Perception Activity. You shared your experience testing your light-dark adaptation, understanding illusions, or locating your retinal blood vessels. Great job!
4) Chapters 5 and 6 Test. 100 multiple choice questions on the sensation/perception. If you were absent, you will take the test at the beginning of class on Tuesday while we go over the correct answers. Please come early so you can get settled and get it completed without missing too much of the rest of class.
5) Consciousness Outline. You received the new outline for this next unit. Please get organized. Next week, we'll have some great conversations about sleeping and dreaming and how important they are. FYI: The next test will be cumulative; chapter 7 will not have its own separate test but it will be included. Consciousness is one of the smallest parts of the AP exam it is a good time to have a cumulative test over everything we've learned. My suggestion is to focus on Chapter 7 this weekend and the first part of next week. Then, start reviewing those notecards and studying everything next weekend!
Assignments:
1) Read chapter 7 up to page 248.
Since the next test will be cumulative, start reviewing chapters 1-7. It will be Monday, November 10.
1) No Neuron Note questions or answers today.
3) Collect Sensation/Perception Activity. You shared your experience testing your light-dark adaptation, understanding illusions, or locating your retinal blood vessels. Great job!
4) Chapters 5 and 6 Test. 100 multiple choice questions on the sensation/perception. If you were absent, you will take the test at the beginning of class on Tuesday while we go over the correct answers. Please come early so you can get settled and get it completed without missing too much of the rest of class.
5) Consciousness Outline. You received the new outline for this next unit. Please get organized. Next week, we'll have some great conversations about sleeping and dreaming and how important they are. FYI: The next test will be cumulative; chapter 7 will not have its own separate test but it will be included. Consciousness is one of the smallest parts of the AP exam it is a good time to have a cumulative test over everything we've learned. My suggestion is to focus on Chapter 7 this weekend and the first part of next week. Then, start reviewing those notecards and studying everything next weekend!
Assignments:
1) Read chapter 7 up to page 248.
Since the next test will be cumulative, start reviewing chapters 1-7. It will be Monday, November 10.
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
October 29: Spooky Day -- Cow Eyes, Perceptual Set, and Pop Quiz
1)Neuron Notes. You wrote a new question on perception and read the answers from last time.
2) Returned Work. It is the end of the quarter and grades are set. I returned all your classwork and homework. Thank you for your patience.
3) Pop Quiz on Chapter 6. This was easy for those of you with notes. Those of you without notes are going to have a very hard time on Friday's test. Get caught up!!
4) Cow Eye Dissection. http://www.exploratorium.edu/learning_studio/cow_eye/ In groups of 4-5, we dissected a cow eye!!! It was awesome! You did a great job! Once the fat and muscle was removed, you were able to investigate the iris, pupil, lens, aqueous humor, tapetum, etc. It was a great experiment.
5) Perceptual Set. I restated the definition -- a mental predisposition to perceive one thing and not another. This is an important concept for life that I would like you to remember. We get stuck in how we perceive the world...try to shake your perception up! I read a great letter from a college student to her parents. :)
Assignments:
1) STUDY!!!! The test on chapters 5 and 6 is on Friday!
2) Sensation/Perception Activity. Finish up one of the five activities. Due on Friday.
October 27: Perception Organization with Escher
1) Neuron Notes. You wrote a new question on perception and read the answers related to perception.
2) Perception Video. It was a cheesy, educational video but it had some good illusions and concepts to discuss.
3) Perceptual Organization with M.C. Escher drawings. First, we went over different cues and ways to organize sensory information. I gave you a chart you can use to study. Then you worked with a partner and examine one of Escher's drawing (www.worldofescher .com) using the chart of perceptual cues. You did a great job noting if it was you saw relative size or texture gradient.
4) Prosopagnosia article. I gave you an interesting article on people with face blindness.
Assignments:
1) Finish chapter 6.
2) Sensation/Percetion Activity. Choose one of the five activities to really enjoy the concepts from these chapters. It is due on Halloween.
3) Test on Chapter 5 and 6 on Friday! STUDY! This stuff is hard!
2) Perception Video. It was a cheesy, educational video but it had some good illusions and concepts to discuss.
3) Perceptual Organization with M.C. Escher drawings. First, we went over different cues and ways to organize sensory information. I gave you a chart you can use to study. Then you worked with a partner and examine one of Escher's drawing (www.worldofescher .com) using the chart of perceptual cues. You did a great job noting if it was you saw relative size or texture gradient.
4) Prosopagnosia article. I gave you an interesting article on people with face blindness.
Assignments:
1) Finish chapter 6.
2) Sensation/Percetion Activity. Choose one of the five activities to really enjoy the concepts from these chapters. It is due on Halloween.
3) Test on Chapter 5 and 6 on Friday! STUDY! This stuff is hard!
Monday, October 27, 2008
October 23: Hearing, Touch, Taste, Smell, and Body Position
1) Neuron Notes. You wrote a new question on sensation and read the answers related to sensation.
2) Pop Quiz on Chapter 5. You could use your notes.
3) Hearing, Touching, Tasting, Smelling, and More. We took notes and did a bunch of activities to better understand each sense. We drew the ear, talked about hearing loss, and a volunteer located sounds. We talked about our touch system (cutaneous receptors) as a few students were blindfolded and got to know a lemon and was able to find it again. We talked about how our taste interacts with our other senses as we ate jelly bellies with our noses plugged and then we opened our noses and WOW! We smelled a bunch of odors and tried to identify them without much luck. Our smell is an old, old sense and has an important purpose.
Assignments:
1) Read chapter 6. Start!
2) Sensation/Percetion Activity. Choose one of the five activities to really enjoy the concepts from these chapters. It is due on Halloween.
2) Pop Quiz on Chapter 5. You could use your notes.
3) Hearing, Touching, Tasting, Smelling, and More. We took notes and did a bunch of activities to better understand each sense. We drew the ear, talked about hearing loss, and a volunteer located sounds. We talked about our touch system (cutaneous receptors) as a few students were blindfolded and got to know a lemon and was able to find it again. We talked about how our taste interacts with our other senses as we ate jelly bellies with our noses plugged and then we opened our noses and WOW! We smelled a bunch of odors and tried to identify them without much luck. Our smell is an old, old sense and has an important purpose.
Assignments:
1) Read chapter 6. Start!
2) Sensation/Percetion Activity. Choose one of the five activities to really enjoy the concepts from these chapters. It is due on Halloween.
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
October 21: Sensation Thresholds and Vision
1) Neuron Notes. You wrote a new question on sensation and read the answers related to sensory thresholds.
2) Sensation/Perception Video. I love Philip Zimbardo. He summarized sensation and perception in 25 minutes for you.
3) Sensory Thresholds. We took notes on absolute threshold and difference threshold. We did a two demonstrations to help you understand these concepts.
4) Vision Notes. We drew the eye, analyzed the color spectrum and wavelength, talked about the two theories of color vision, and explained depth and distance perception. We did all sorts of demonstrations related to vision.
Assignments:
1) Read chapter 5 pages 211-228. Finish!
2) Make notecards on chapters 5 and 6! I will not check these, but you will do better if you memorize the vocabulary.
2) Sensation/Perception Video. I love Philip Zimbardo. He summarized sensation and perception in 25 minutes for you.
3) Sensory Thresholds. We took notes on absolute threshold and difference threshold. We did a two demonstrations to help you understand these concepts.
4) Vision Notes. We drew the eye, analyzed the color spectrum and wavelength, talked about the two theories of color vision, and explained depth and distance perception. We did all sorts of demonstrations related to vision.
Assignments:
1) Read chapter 5 pages 211-228. Finish!
2) Make notecards on chapters 5 and 6! I will not check these, but you will do better if you memorize the vocabulary.
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