Anne Walter – Professor of Biology
I will share from several sets of exercises developed to compliment what we learn in the class and in the lab during the Animal Physiology course. The motivation for these is to help students “see” how data are processed, recognize how to back out key information from graphs, and compare values such as metabolic rates across animal sizes and the many unit systems in which they are expressed as part of a movement to help students in biology be comfortable “doing the math”. The impetus that made this exercise possible was the necessity of valuable lab-related exercises that could be done elsewhere due to covid-19 restrictions. The result of that experiment is a subset of problems now integrated more seamlessly into the course. I encourage students to use tools (R, Excel, GoogleSheets) for calculations and graphing but much of the work is best done on paper.
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Class project, Bio 247: Animal Physiology |
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RStudio, Excel, Google Sheets |
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