My Closing Letter
8438 Starry Night Road
Brampton, Ontario
L6R 4G8
June 15th 2012
Miss. Tran
Louise Arbour Secondary School
365 Father Tobin Road
Brampton, Ontario
L6R 0R4
Dear Miss. Tran,
When I first began the course, I wasn’t sure about what we were going to learn in genetics or evolution but I had an idea about biodiversity and internal systems. I knew that for the unit of internal system we would be learning about the three systems and how they all worked together as one but also how they work separately to fulfill the needs our body needed to grow and become healthy. In biodiversity, I was expecting to learn more about animals and different species, not much about bacteria and viruses that infect the organisms so that was a bit of a disappointment but I still liked learning about the different types of bacteria and viruses. The course ended up being much more than I expected to learn in each unit but I found that
I really enjoyed it and it was really interesting.
I learnt many things in this course that go from traits get inherited in genetics to bacteria and viruses in biodiversity. Out of all the
units, I would have to say my favourite unit is biodiversity because I loved learning about different animal and plant species and how to categorize them. I also loved hearing the sustaining life presentations about the living organism just because I liked learning and seeing pictures of what other organisms were out there. I also like how we had to find out the phylum of the animal and find other animals in the same phylum, I didn’t know about phylum’s or what they were and so learning about that was pretty interesting. As for my least favourite unit, I would say that I don’t have one. I like the other units equally. For genetics, I loved learning about how we can predict what our child would look like based on the genes that we have. My favourite assignment would have to be the making baby lab because I liked how we had to predict what our child would look like and then how we had to draw them. As for evolution, I liked learning about macro- and micro-evolution and how species can change over millions of
years. I liked doing the Woolybooger activity because it showed how over time species change and they adapt and evolve to be able to survive in the environment. It showed how different species survived in different time period but sooner or later, a new species with a favourable trait would come along and the other species with the harmful traits would become extinct. In the unit of internal systems, I liked learning about the system and how they all depend on one another to survive. If one stopped working the others would as well and we would die. My favourite assignment was the pig dissection because I liked dissecting the pig and being able to look at its internal system especially since it is so close to ours. I found it really cool that we were able to dissect the pig and look at the organs.
The course influenced and shaped my learning strategies by helping me study faster and in less time periods. This year was really hectic for me and so having quizzes and tests in biology along with my other courses helped me be able to maintain a good sense of time management. I began to study faster and in shorter periods of time because I also had other assignments and
tests for other courses that I had to study for. Getting a heavy workload really helped me improve my time management skills.
The course content was very interesting and relevant to biological/ science profession because if you want to become a biologist you will need to take biology. As a scientist or biologist, taking this course gives you an introduction in the field of biology and what the different areas or fields are. This course gives you an idea of what jobs you can have in biology, most people think you can just become a biologist or a biology professor, but after taking this course I realized that there are a lot more jobs such as a geneticist, evolutionary scientist and many more. This course also made me more interested in becoming a biologist and so taking this course let me get a feel of how biology is.
For improvements in the course, I would say to lessen the number of checkpoints we get every week but also when teaching ask the students what they would like to learn as well. For example, in biodiversity, students might want to learn more about classification of animals or just in general about animals and other living organisms and the teacher should take that into
consideration and teach students that extra bit of knowledge that they want to learn. I liked how we had checkpoints every week so that we knew what we were learning, etc but sometimes I felt that we were having too many.
Biology is definitely a course that I want to take in the future especially courses like zoology and any other courses that are related to living organisms. I really like biology and I can see myself taking it in the future. Thank you Ms.Tran for making this course a fun and successful experience for me.
Sincerely,
Gurneet Saini
Brampton, Ontario
L6R 4G8
June 15th 2012
Miss. Tran
Louise Arbour Secondary School
365 Father Tobin Road
Brampton, Ontario
L6R 0R4
Dear Miss. Tran,
When I first began the course, I wasn’t sure about what we were going to learn in genetics or evolution but I had an idea about biodiversity and internal systems. I knew that for the unit of internal system we would be learning about the three systems and how they all worked together as one but also how they work separately to fulfill the needs our body needed to grow and become healthy. In biodiversity, I was expecting to learn more about animals and different species, not much about bacteria and viruses that infect the organisms so that was a bit of a disappointment but I still liked learning about the different types of bacteria and viruses. The course ended up being much more than I expected to learn in each unit but I found that
I really enjoyed it and it was really interesting.
I learnt many things in this course that go from traits get inherited in genetics to bacteria and viruses in biodiversity. Out of all the
units, I would have to say my favourite unit is biodiversity because I loved learning about different animal and plant species and how to categorize them. I also loved hearing the sustaining life presentations about the living organism just because I liked learning and seeing pictures of what other organisms were out there. I also like how we had to find out the phylum of the animal and find other animals in the same phylum, I didn’t know about phylum’s or what they were and so learning about that was pretty interesting. As for my least favourite unit, I would say that I don’t have one. I like the other units equally. For genetics, I loved learning about how we can predict what our child would look like based on the genes that we have. My favourite assignment would have to be the making baby lab because I liked how we had to predict what our child would look like and then how we had to draw them. As for evolution, I liked learning about macro- and micro-evolution and how species can change over millions of
years. I liked doing the Woolybooger activity because it showed how over time species change and they adapt and evolve to be able to survive in the environment. It showed how different species survived in different time period but sooner or later, a new species with a favourable trait would come along and the other species with the harmful traits would become extinct. In the unit of internal systems, I liked learning about the system and how they all depend on one another to survive. If one stopped working the others would as well and we would die. My favourite assignment was the pig dissection because I liked dissecting the pig and being able to look at its internal system especially since it is so close to ours. I found it really cool that we were able to dissect the pig and look at the organs.
The course influenced and shaped my learning strategies by helping me study faster and in less time periods. This year was really hectic for me and so having quizzes and tests in biology along with my other courses helped me be able to maintain a good sense of time management. I began to study faster and in shorter periods of time because I also had other assignments and
tests for other courses that I had to study for. Getting a heavy workload really helped me improve my time management skills.
The course content was very interesting and relevant to biological/ science profession because if you want to become a biologist you will need to take biology. As a scientist or biologist, taking this course gives you an introduction in the field of biology and what the different areas or fields are. This course gives you an idea of what jobs you can have in biology, most people think you can just become a biologist or a biology professor, but after taking this course I realized that there are a lot more jobs such as a geneticist, evolutionary scientist and many more. This course also made me more interested in becoming a biologist and so taking this course let me get a feel of how biology is.
For improvements in the course, I would say to lessen the number of checkpoints we get every week but also when teaching ask the students what they would like to learn as well. For example, in biodiversity, students might want to learn more about classification of animals or just in general about animals and other living organisms and the teacher should take that into
consideration and teach students that extra bit of knowledge that they want to learn. I liked how we had checkpoints every week so that we knew what we were learning, etc but sometimes I felt that we were having too many.
Biology is definitely a course that I want to take in the future especially courses like zoology and any other courses that are related to living organisms. I really like biology and I can see myself taking it in the future. Thank you Ms.Tran for making this course a fun and successful experience for me.
Sincerely,
Gurneet Saini