Reflection
I believed that most of the time we worked well together but sometimes not so much. Sometimes we got a little bit off-task and we need to improve on that. We also sometimes thought too big on a project when the simpler idea was easier and just generally better, and we should learn about that. But we did get along well as friends and we were able to organize our work among each other equally.
I liked the video project w/ the sculpture as a final project. It was very fun and we were able to do whatever we wanted with it. It was fun creating the sculpture as well. However what I disliked was the frog dissection. I guess it can't be avoided because this is biology and therefore it's pretty necessary to dissect an amphibian at SOME point, but it was disgusting, I didn't want to do it, the rest of my group didn't want to do it, and it smelled awful. One more thing that I disliked was in the tool project, where we had to group metal pieces, was that the marble was included in one of them, because we always lost it whenever we promised that we would hold on to it.
I liked the video project w/ the sculpture as a final project. It was very fun and we were able to do whatever we wanted with it. It was fun creating the sculpture as well. However what I disliked was the frog dissection. I guess it can't be avoided because this is biology and therefore it's pretty necessary to dissect an amphibian at SOME point, but it was disgusting, I didn't want to do it, the rest of my group didn't want to do it, and it smelled awful. One more thing that I disliked was in the tool project, where we had to group metal pieces, was that the marble was included in one of them, because we always lost it whenever we promised that we would hold on to it.
Socratic Seminar
We had a socratic seminar discussing the differences of evolution and creationism because many of the students wondered why evolution was being taught when creationism wasn't. I'm not really that religious, so this was probably the first time in a few years that I got a refresher about Christianity, which I liked. I also didn't know how Christians defended their religion and their proof of its existence, so hearing that from a Christian was pretty nice. One thing I wish I could have asked during the seminar is if we really wanted to know the truth about the world and how it formed. After all, there are so many explanations, but all of them have their flaws and because of this, either one of them could be right. And no matter what theory is right, there will be a vast number of people stunned that their views that practically revolve into everything in everyday life is proven wrong. Imagine the chaos that would happen! I'm much happier not knowing. I also was a little disappointed that the seminar had only Christianity and modern science opinions, and not any other huge religion like Hinduism.
Book Review
To us, this book was truly boring towards the end, but that’s probably because we were on a deadline and didn’t want to read what was left in such little time. At first, it was genuinely interesting, Jerry A Coyne knows how to give scientific examples while not confusing his audience with extremely detailed writing of a professor. In fact, the writing is simple, interesting and fun, and could even appeal to a middle school student. Scattering fun facts here and there makes the book less of a chore to read, and these facts worked very well with the concept of the book. Speaking of the concept of the book, the concept of the book is great. Coyne wants to prove how evolution is true and with his evidence and facts, he pretty much convinces the audience. Each chapter tackles a certain point about the science of evolution and Darwinism. We recommend this to anyone who wants to read more about this.