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Guide 10A Science Stories

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Quiz, Media, & Portfolio Directions

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Science Stories Objectives

Message & Media

Distinguish between primary and mediated experiences; explain how media can promote experiences, including learning from others and content creation; and provide examples of different forms of science media.

Sustainability

Define sustainability in reference to humans and the environment; provide examples of three principles of sustainability that are derived from nature; and describe how climate change relates to sustainability.

Resource Management

List various types of resources, including non-renewable, renewable, and perpetual; describe the role of a natural resource manager, including how it incorporates multiple disciplines; and explain how an understanding of tree characteristics, soils, ecosystem interactions, fire disturbance, succession, human history, and the timber industry all relate to managing ponderosa pine forests.

Personal Impact

List habits of mind used to develop personal understandings of nature; describe basic considerations associated with reducing an ecological footprint; and relate tree planting to the concepts of biodiversity, ecology, and conservation biology.

Science Stories Quiz

Quiz Directions

Complete all four sections and take the quiz on Canvas.

Use the learning objectives above to guide your studying.

Science Stories Media

Introduced in Message & Media section of this guide:

Mediated Experience

In science it can be critical to describe a phenomenon in a way that others feel they are sharing the experience. In this assignment you are creating a mediated multimedia multimodal experience (say that three times fast!):

Mediated: Select a primary experience you have had, or are currently having, related to science and/or nature that you can mediate (share) with someone who may not have had that experience.

Multimedia: Select two different media forms for mediating your experience. This could be photo and text, a video with picture and sound, a labeled sketch, or whatever best mediates the experience, bringing it to life for the audience.

Multimodal: Figure out what sensory information (modes) you want to incorporate into your description of the experience. This may mean finding a creative way to explain a sensory experience, like describing what something smells like or how it feel to the touch.

You will be uploading your mediated multimedia multimodal experience to Canvas. It will probably be self-explanatory, but if you would like to add additional information, you can use the comments box.

Since this media piece can go into your final field guide, you may want to tailor your experience towards a section that you have not thoroughly filled yet. For example, you may have a few quiz answers related to conservation biology but want to make your section more substantial. You could mediate an experience related to conservation biology and add it to the field guide.

Media Directions

To be completed after taking the quiz on Canvas.

Once you have completed your mediated experience, upload it to Canvas. Your media piece can be submitted as a PDF, a word document, a photo of the notes, or even a video. Multiple assignment formats are supported.

Portfolio

Portfolio Directions

The mediated experience can be a good fit in your final portfolio. This week you are assembling the portfolio. It is due the Wednesday of finals week (week #11), 11:59 p.m. PST.

Learn more about Science Stories

If you would like to learn more about the topics introduced in this course, please visit the resources page.

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