1. Welcome to Mr. Cogbill’s Life Science Class
What is Life Science
What is everyday Life Science
Examples of Current Research at the University of Hawaii at Manoa in Life Science
How Students are Graded (Assessment)
What are Standards (State and National)
What Students are Graded on (Experiments, Labs, Projects, Field Trips)

2. LIFE SCIENCE (Biology)
Definition(s)
The science of life and of living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, and distribution.
The life processes of a group or category of living organisms.

3. Everyday Biology

4. Everyday Biology

5. Everyday Biology
Blood sugar
monitor
Pacemaker

6. Everyday Biology

7. Categories of Biology Zoology Botany Virology Immunology
Marine Biology
Microbiology
Conservational Biology
Protozoology
Oceanography
Parasitology
BioAnthropology
Molecular Biology
Genetics
Anatomy
Physiology
Cell Biology
Evolutionary Biology
Ecology
Entomology
Developmental Biology
BioEngineering
BioChemistry

8. Graduate Program
Masters Degree = 2 to 3 yrs
PhD = 5 to 7 yrs
Most BioScience Programs
Pay for your tuition
Pay you a stipend (salary)
Provide medical benefits
Fellowships
TAships
GAships/RAships

9. Promoting Interest in Science
I am currently a collaborator and representative from Stevenson Middle School for the following grant proposal. Howard Hughes Medical Institute Initiative for Biomedical Research Institutions Queens Medical Center Ulu Kukui Project HHMI Grant Proposal (.pdf)

10. Drosophila Melanogaster (fruit fly/vinegar fly)

11. Pseudoxanthoma Elasticum (PXE)
A multisystem disease
Affects elastic tissue
Affects skin, eyes, gastrointestinal and cardiovascular
systems.

12. Pseudoxanthoma Elasticum (PXE)

13. Pseudoxanthoma Elasticum (PXE)

15. Purpose
To figure out what this gene does in flies so that we can then apply it to humans.

16. How do we do this?
Determine when and where the gene products are found in the fly.
Determine if this fly gene can function like the human gene “in vitro”.
Mutate (mess up) the gene in flies and see what happens.

17. HAWAII SCIENCE STANDARDS
This is what we are to teach in class according to the Hawaii Department of Education. HCPS III

18. U.S. NATIONAL SCIENCE STANDARDS
This is what students should be learning according to the national standards set forth by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

19. This is how lab/class work is graded. RUBRICS
ASSESSMENT
This is how lab/class work is graded. RUBRICS

20. Controlled Variable Experiment Guide Book
SEED GERMINATION
Controlled Variable Experiment
Guide Book

21. CELL CYCLE
Mitosis

22. GENETICS: The Science of Heredity
TRAITS

23. SOLAR SPRINT
HECO

24. Additional Information Located on our CLASS WEB PAGE
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25. Any Questions?