biology 169

Part 1:

Initial post (60 points) Your initial post (response) will contain three parts which are explained below. Please be sure to number each part in your post. 1)

Go to the website “Science in the Classroom” and pull up the article “You are what you eat…at least, your brain is.”: https://www.scienceintheclassroom.org/research-papers/you-are-what-you-eatat-least-your-brain (opens in new window). For this assignment, you will focus only on the introduction and methods (these can be found in the “report” section – some of the methods are found at the end of the article).

• On the left side of the website, you will see a gray box titled “learning lens.” Click on the yellow box beside “glossary” (a check will appear). This will highlight specific terms in yellow. • List and define FIVE terms you struggled with that are highlighted in the report (there are more than five terms highlighted – you get to pick five).

2) Read the the introduction for this article (this is the first section in Reports).

• What were three things that you learned in this introduction? • What is the question the scientist is hoping to answer with this experiment?

3) On the left side of the website, you will see a gray box titled “learning lens.” Click on the blue box beside “author’s experiments” (a check will appear). This will highlight the methods of the report. Read through these. If you have trouble understanding any of these highlighted methods, hover over it with your mouse to get more information.

• In your own words, summarize the methods (what is the experiment?). If you are struggling understanding any of this information, please reach out to me. Your summary needs to be at least 100 words in length.

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Module 3 Discussion Board

 

Background information

In this discussion board, we will continue to analyze the journal article “You are what you eat…at least, your brain is?”. Review the different sections of a journal article below:

• Title: short statement that describes the question being answered
• Abstract: summary of the article
• Introduction: introduces the article and contains current information on what is known about the topic, which will lead to further explanation of the researcher’s question
• Methods: how the study was performed
• Results: data from the study – usually includes tables and graphs
• Discussion/Conclusion: interprets the results relating to the original question
• References: list of literary sources used in the article

Instructions

 

Part 1: Initial post (60 points)

Your initial post (response) will contain three parts which are explained below. Please be sure to number each part in your post.

 

• Go to the website “Science in the Classroom” and pull up the article “You are what you eat…at least, your brain is.”: https://www.scienceintheclassroom.org/research-papers/you-are-what-you-eatat-least-your-brain (opens in new window). For this assignment, you will focus only on the introduction and methods (these can be found in the “report” section – some of the methods are found at the end of the article).

 

• On the left side of the website, you will see a gray box titled “learning lens.” Click on the yellow box beside “glossary” (a check will appear). This will highlight specific terms in yellow.
• List and define FIVE terms you struggled with that are highlighted in the report (there are more than five terms highlighted – you get to pick five).

 

• Read the the introduction for this article (this is the first section in Reports).

 

• What were three things that you learned in this introduction?
• What is the question the scientist is hoping to answer with this experiment?

 

• On the left side of the website, you will see a gray box titled “learning lens.” Click on the blue box beside “author’s experiments” (a check will appear). This will highlight the methods of the report. Read through these. If you have trouble understanding any of these highlighted methods, hover over it with your mouse to get more information.

 

• In your own words, summarize the methods (what is the experiment?). If you are struggling understanding any of this information, please reach out to me. Your summary needs to be at least 100 words in length.

 

Part 2: Responses (40 points)

You will reply to two classmates’ initial posts.

• For your replies, you will comment on your classmates’ methods summary and compare it to yours. Were your summaries similar? Did you interpret anything differently? What information did you struggle with? Did your classmate explain something really well?
• Your replies should be at least 75 words each.