Tentative Schedule (This schedule will be modified to take advantage of timely issues and special opportunities):
| Week | Topic | Preparation & Assignments |
1 |
- Overview & Expectations; Defining STS issues |
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2 (Jan. 26) |
- Webx practice - Inquiry, & Investigations orientation - History of STS |
- Inquiry investigation groups formed, |
3 (Feb. 2) |
- Values, Attitudes, Beliefs |
- Readings: Environmental racism (pdf file) - Reading summary submitted on Environmental Racism |
4 (Feb. 9) |
- "Trade Secrets" concluded - Environmental Racism - Culture and STS |
- Readings: Waste (pdf file) |
5 (Feb. 16) |
- Community waste |
- Readings: Water quality |
6 (Feb. 23) |
- Water quality - Water on the Web |
- In-class assignment |
7 (March 1) |
- Midterm 1 - Guest Speaker - Doug Jensen |
- Midterm |
8 (March 8) |
- Project groups - Global Warming |
- Readings: |
9 (March 22) |
- GMOS & Cloning |
- Cloning - expresssive project |
10 (March 29) |
- Cloning continued |
- Readings: - Expressive project turned in |
11 (April 5) |
- Love Canal discussions - Field Trip (Wed.) WLSSD, 1-2:30 |
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12 (April 12) |
- Current Issue discussion - Midterm |
- DHMO reading - Midterm |
13 (April 19) |
- Presentation prep (no class - 4/19) - First two group presentations |
- Group Presentations |
14 (April 26) |
Issues Presentations (two) Guest Speaker (Wed)- Lynelle Hanson |
- Group Presentations |
15 (May 3) |
- Last two group presentations - Looking into the crystal ball: the future and STS |
- Group Presentations |
Finals |
Final Synthesis turned in |
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