BIO 325 MicrobiologyCourse Context: Lecture and labScience majors, pre-nursing majors, and dietetics majorsLearning Objective

Taxonomy Level/Category

Learning Activities

Formative Assessment

Summative Assessment

Students can describe DNA replication in bacteria

RememberUnderstand

Group work – concept map

Map comments Homework question Exam question

Students can explain DNA sequencing

Understand Game Reflection Exam question

Students can predict how genes, gene products, and the environment interact

Create Lecture problem - figure

Problem comments

Homework questionExam question

Learning Activities

• Group problems– Practice problems– Concept maps

• Games– Game questions– Reflection

• Lecture questions– Figure presented– Questions

Lecture

Review questions

Lecture question*

Group problem* HW

Formative Assessments

• Group problem – concept map

• Lecture problem – questions– What happens as the cell gets warmer?– How does the microbe regulate these differences in cell

activities?– What could happen if the cell got cooler again?

DNA replication

Summative Assessments

• HW/Exam question– Explain how DNA replication occurs in bacteria

from beginning to end.

– Predict the possible responses a microbe would have to increased levels of iron in its environment (see Fig. 10.20 to start, but account for other possibilities!).

Fig. 10.20

Timeline

• Fall 2012– Learning objectives for units and subunits– Group problems – selected – Lecture questions – selected – Homework questions

• Spring 2013– Games– Lecture questions– Exam questions