Your tourguide for Fall 2000: Dr. Dana Krempels

The Course: BIL 105 - Elementary Botany

The Website: http://fig.cox.miami.edu/Faculty/Dana/BIL105.html

Office Hours: Mondays and Wednesdays: 2 - 4 pm

and by special appointment at your convenience.

Phone: (305) 284-3977

email: dana@miami.edu

TODAY'S ADVENTURE: TOUR OF THE GIFFORD ARBORETUM.

"And tomorrow, the real work begins." -- Li Shang

The assignment: After the tour of the arboretum, wander about and write down 3 - 5 questions that come to your mind about the specimens in the arboretum, or about any of the live things you see there. Try to phrase the questions in such a way that they could be testable with the Scientific Method...

  • Ask a question
  • Make a prediction about the answer (construct hypotheses)
  • Devise an experiment to test whether your prediction is accurate
  • Collect data
  • Analyze data with a statistical test
  • Accept or reject your hypothesis