1. Biomedical Innovations PLTW Year 4

2. Overview of Year

3. What will we be doing??? There are 8 units in this course
They will be covered in the following order:
Unit 8 - Throughout the year
Unit 5
Unit 7 - Dissection Involved
Unit 2
Unit 1
Unit 3
Unit 4
Unit 6

4. Grading Policy

5. Classwork - 30% Projects - 50% Capstone - 20% Labs/Activities
Reflections
Notebook
Homework
Projects - 50%
ER Design
Physiology Experimental Design and Poster
Medical Innovation Design
Environmental Health Community Profile
Community Health Grant Proposal and Project
Recombinant Plasmid Lab Write Up
Forensic Autopsy
Capstone - 20%

6. Late Work and Academic Intergrity

7. Late Work All assignments will be accepted late
10% will be lost for each day late
Class time will be given for ALL assignments: Use your time wisely
If you have an issue completing an assignment please let me know prior to the due date so we can make arrangements.

8. Academic Integrity DO YOUR OWN WORK AND DOCUMENT OUTSIDE SOURCES
Homework/classwork that is plagiarized will receive a ZERO
Major assignments that are plagiarized
Science supervisor contacted
Parents contacted
If first offense (in all classes) make up assignment will be given for maximum 70%
If second offense no alternate assignment will be given; max grade zero

9. Research Notebook

10. Research notebook
A resource that will be used to organize your ideas throughout the year.
Broken into sections for each unit.

11. Research Notebook Setup
Right Side
Section Title
Objective
Warm-up
Concept Maps
Personal Research
Practice Problems
Lab data/graphs/conclusions
Reflections
Left Side
Lecture Notes
Video Notes
Directions
Lab Procedures
Sample problems

12. Things that will not go in your notebook
Culminating projects
Formal Lab Reports
Literature Review
Case Studies

13. Contact Information
Course Information can be found on my webpage through the OHS website!