I took biology freshman year of high school, chemistry my sophomore year, and physics my junior year but I haven’t taken any science since then. I liked physics the most because, with the help of math and calculations, it can be very predictable.
From this class I hope to understand the way biology interacts with our everyday lives, learning a lot specifically from our outreach and service learning projects.
I am most interested in the Rivers Alive Watershed Clean Up. In other organizations that I have been/am involved with, I have participated in park and river clean ups, and also am Microsoft certified, which would allow me to help create a form to track clean-up information. I think that creating tangible changes and being able to see instantaneous results from our work would appeal to students. Seeing those results would drive the group to do the evaluations of the various litter found.
Helping with service learning would allow me to learn how my own daily civic engagement can help produce change in my community. It will also help me witness first hand the effect of waste and chemicals in our environment, giving me a better understanding of why we should be engaging in environmentally friendly practices.
In this course, I’m interested in learning about genetics and how what is inside of us helps make up who we are on the outside.
1. 2. In high school, I was more of a physics person, but I took both Honors Biology and Honors Chemistry. I liked the classes, but I always thought that physics was more interesting. I took both AP Physics 1 and C: Mechanics. Even though I struggled a bit in these courses, I still found the subject matter interesting. However in college, I took Physics 1212, which focuses mainly electricity and magnetism. I thought that I would love this subject matter, but I hated it, so I have decided to go back and try the life science classes again. In college, I also took Introduction to Weather and Climate because my ultimate goal is to become a meteorologist. I loved that class because it focused on ideas that interested me a lot as well as allowing me to continue on the path to get a degree in Atmospheric Sciences. 3. In this course, I would like to learn more on how daily human activities affect the world around us. Since I am majoring in Atmospheric Sciences, I need to learn more about climate change, and I think that learning about how human activities affect our environments would be very interesting. 4. I think making a video the day after a game day and showing it off would be a great idea for a project. When I lived near Myers Quad last year, I experienced first hand how much trash is left around following the game. I think since all of the students live on or around the campus, we all would like to keep it clean. The only problem with this idea would be finding a good way to reach the maximum audience to show off a video. 5. With the service learning project, I might learn more about working with a team to make a large change in the community around us. 6. I would like to learn more about how the environment is affected by human activities every day. I think the recent climate change problem is interesting and would like to learn more about it from a biological perspective.
2. In high school I took biology freshman year and then AP Chemistry classes and AP physics. I preferred Chemistry courses because I liked working with chemical equations and understanding how and why things reacted the way the did with each other.
3. I would like to have a different understanding of biology than just memorization like I did in high school.
4. The river cleanup project interests me the most because I enjoy working outside and I like to do activities in the outdoors. I do not mind getting dirty which would be a useful skill during a river cleanup. I think that my fellow students would want to know just how much trash is being left in and around the rivers and I think it would appeal to them because most people do not want to see trash heaps around rivers as then they would be unusable.
5. Relative to civic engagement, I would learn how to raise awareness about littering around rivers and the damage it can cause to the ecosystem by helping with this service learning.
6. I would like to learn plants and soil conservation.
My name is Liv Francis. I took 2 semesters of Astronomy in college and physics, biology, and chemistry in high school. I loved the Astronomy classes because it was not something I had the opportunity to learn about prior to college. In this class, I’d like to learn more about sustainability and the effects of what happens when people don’t practice sustainability. I like the idea of doing the tailgating project. I like hands-on projects where you can see a change and I feel like bringing attention to the trash left by tailgates would cause people to change their behavior and hopefully pick up their trash. I think this would interest other students as well because a ton of students at UGA participate in tailgating s it directly affects them. I think this project would show how easy it can be to help out and also how many opportunities there are to do so even within Athens. I would like to learn about sustainability and also I think it would be interesting to learn about diseases and how they can affect different parts of the population.
2. I took biology freshman year of high school, chemistry classes sophomore and junior years, and then physics my senior year. I also did the biotechnology pathway at my school over three years which was probably my favorite. I enjoyed the hands on aspect of where I could actually manipulate the DNA of a bacteria or test genes and see the results in front of me.
3. I would like to get a good foundation of biology that I can bring into my life and the real world. It is interesting to see what I learn in the classroom occur in real life. I also want to be able to help others out to better their understanding of biology.
4. The river clean up seems cool to me to always make where you live the best it can be in terms of health and just how it looks and feels. This also goes with the tailgating to see the impacts of a massive pastime at UGA on the campus environment. I think everyone wants to make sure that Athens can be a great, clean place to live and enjoy.
5. I think I will learn about how the little impacts from each thing a person does adds up to a big change. This could be negative if all you do is make things worse for the community, but it can also be very positive. If everyone just got involved to make things better rather than worse giant strides could be made very easily to make the entire community better.
6. I always enjoy learning about the aspects of biology that deal with genetics and DNA because it is really interesting to see how things that you can have no control over affect you every day. I also like seeing how connected everything really is and how it is impossible for any living thing to have no impact on the whole circle of life.
Look! A picture of me hanging off the edge of a 4-story parking deck (sorry mom)
2. In high school, I took the basic science courses needed to graduate, (chemistry, biology, etc.) and also took AP Physics which was a BIG mistake. After that dismal experience, I never took another AP science course. I enjoyed chemistry class the most probably because my teacher let me eat my pizza rolls in class
3. Quite honestly, I signed up for this course to get the credit and my honors requirement fulfilled. Upon looking at the syllabus and seeing service outreach opportunities as a proponent of the course, I’m really excited to go serve and learn.
4. The Outreach with Clarke Central High School Student seems very interesting to me. Seeing the way organisms become more and more resistant to their environment (in this case anti-biotic resistant bacteria) has always been of interest to me. Being able to study that alongside other high school students could be very rewarding.
5. The whole idea behind these biological service opportunities is the fact that there is some environmental need that has been unmet, and that we can have an impact to change that. As it is related to civic engagement, these opportunities could help change the culture of the community as it pertains to trash build-up or human interruption of biological processes.
6. GENETICS. Unit 3 is all about genetics, and I am HERE for it. Seeing the way that our DNA programs us to grow in a certain way and commands our body to perform functions necessary to life is very interesting to me. Furthermore, seeing how traits are passed down to make certain organisms better (or worse!) is a fun process to track.
I took biology, chemistry, physics, and anatomy & physiology in high school. I liked anatomy the best, because it’s super interesting and easy to apply to daily life. Physics was my least favorite, because my brain just didn’t work that way.
I want to go more in depth into a new area of biology that I haven’t really learned much about.
I think the tailgating project looks the most interesting to me, because my high school was really focused on environmental sustainability on campus. I worked a lot with the Go Green committee at my school to keep our campus as trash-free as possible. I think my fellow students will definitely gravitate toward trash clean up and littering prevention because of how much it affects the students on campus.
I might learn about the similarities and differences between the environment here in Athens and at home in California. I also want to learn about biological similarities and differences in each environment.
I want to learn about genetics the most, because I have always found that field very interesting. Learning about antibiotics sounds very interesting as well. It would be a good way to learn a bit about the medical and pharmaceutical fields, even though I won’t be pursuing a career in those fields.
I’m a freshman, so this is my first college science class! When I was in high school, I took Human Anatomy, Honors Biology, and AP Chemistry. I liked Chemistry because the math that it involved was formulaic, and because I thought that working with chemicals was cool.
I’m the one in the UGA shirt 🙂
In this class, I would really love to have a better grasp on how biology works in the human body and in connection to chemistry. I’m also interested in the environmental component of biology, because it’s important to understand how the world around us works. I want to understand how our society can become more mindful of the environment through understanding the biology behind it.
The projects that interest me are projects that relate to the human body and genetics, because I like learning about why and how biology relates to psychology. I also want to explore more of biology in the environment in Athens, so I think I would be interested in testing the water and cleaning it up, because I can see that my efforts are important to the place where I live. Also, because the health of the environment is talked about so much in politics and the news, I think that projects like that would appeal to my fellow students.
Interacting with our community is the only way that we can understand why the topics that we talk about in the classroom are relative in the real world. I think that through civic engagement, we’ll learn how to be more conscious of how our actions impact the people and environment around us, and how to have a positive impact on them.
I want to learn about bacteria in the water in our community, about genetics and how testing impacts the way that diseases are treated, and about microbiomes in our bodies.
In high school, I took Honors Biology, Honors Chemistry, AP Physics I, and AP Physics II. I liked Physics the best because we did a lot of labs and group work, even though the course and material were difficult. From this course, I want to participate in an outreach that uses the material we learn in class and apply it in the real world. The project that interests me the most is the outreach with Clarke Central HS students. I’ve visited elementary schools and middle schools in the past when I was in high school, so this seems very similar. I do think the Tailgating project sounds interesting and that if students at UGA saw the picture of campus after a big game, they would not want to go to a campus that looks like it is a dumpster. Through these projects, it will help me with civic engagement by interacting with younger students in the community and also making the community a better place to live. In this course, I really am excited for the genetics because this topic has always been interesting to me. In my HS bio class we did not do much with watersheds and water quality, so I think this will be something new and exciting to learn as well.
