Republic of the Philippines

Laguna State Polytechnic University

Province of Laguna

College of Teacher Education

Course Module

Course Code: Science 203 Semester: 1st

Course Title: Special Topics in Biology Academic Year: 2019 - 2020

Ver./Date Revised: Hours: 9 hours/week

Topic: ILO 1: Discuss the nature and scope of Special Topics in Biology

LECTURE

After completing this lesson, the students should be able to:

1. Define Biology and its scope as a Science of Life.
2. Trace the Progress and development of Biological Science
Objectives: through time.
3. Identify different branches of Biology and find out how each
branch of study correlates with one another and how each
contributes to the other fields of study.

Review:

 Introduction to Biology
 Biology: how it came about?
Classroom  Biology Today
Discussion:  Biology and other Disciplines
 Biological Researches
 Biology in everyday life

Tasks: Article Review

Assignment: Forecasting Biology for the next century
Assessment Task

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 RUBRICS FOR TASK NO. 1: ARTICLE REVIEW

weight
Criteria Exemplary Effective Minimal Unsatisfactory

 In depth and well  Content is  Content is  Content is

organized content adequately minimally not
 Meets length organized and organized organized
requirement with comprehensiv
 Length  Length
quality content e
Content of requirement is requirement
50%  Excellent  Length
Review summary requirement is not met; is not met;
met with minimal content poor content
adequate  Basic summary  Incomplete
content summary
 Adequate  Evidence of
summary plagiarism
 Relevant to  Relevant to  Minimal  Not relevant
assigned subject assigned relevance to to assigned
matter and peer subject matter assigned subject subject
Appropriat
25% interest  Article
e Topic matter matter
 Article content content meets
 Article content  Fails to meet
exceeds expectations
requirements fails to meet all content
requirements requirements
 Article has great  Article has  Article has little  Article has
significance some significance no
 Student summary significance  Summary meets significance
exceeds average  Student
minimal  Summary
peer perspective summary
expectations does not
Significance and meets project
15% understanding expectations  Little meet
to Class /
 Student displays  Some understanding minimal
Relativity
to Class understanding of understanding of article’s expectations
article’s relevance of article’s relevance to  No
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topic g of article’s
relevance
 Article  Article  Article attached  No article
printed/copied printed/copie to summary
and effectively d and  Partial
displayed on 8½ x displayed on 8
Article documentation
10% 11 paper ½ x 1 paper
Submission of article
 Display of article  Display of
includes correct article
citation includes
correct
citation

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