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gneissisnice wrote:

sweetcoop wrote:I am actually glad that there is a page of notes even tho my schools "A" team will not use the notes. I remember three years ago my school almost took last place in this event.

Can anyone give me advice on teaching Ecology to the members on your team that are interested in the event.

You know, you dont get extra points for not using notes. Your A team should make notes anyway. It's always nice to have, even if they never use em. Try to convince them not to let foolish pride get in the way of winning.

I agree. I always try to make the most of every resource that I can have.

I have to agree with gneiss. Even the most prepared team can fail if they forget things on competition day. I would bring the note sheet anyways, even if they're not going to use it. Just as insurance, you know.

sweetcoop wrote:Can anyone give me advice on teaching Ecology to the members on your team that are interested in the event.

I would pretend that you're teaching a class and do it that way. I'd also get plenty of notes and problems/questions from the internet, so that the people who are interested can see what the event covers and what the questions would be like.

gneissisnice wrote:

sweetcoop wrote:I am actually glad that there is a page of notes even tho my schools "A" team will not use the notes. I remember three years ago my school almost took last place in this event.

Can anyone give me advice on teaching Ecology to the members on your team that are interested in the event.

You know, you dont get extra points for not using notes. Your A team should make notes anyway. It's always nice to have, even if they never use em. Try to convince them not to let foolish pride get in the way of winning.

well more than likely we will have notes prepared but i think i will let my partner in the event do the notes cause my page would be unhelpful. you are right tho saying that we won't use notes is foolish pride.

AlphaTauri wrote:I have to agree with gneiss. Even the most prepared team can fail if they forget things on competition day. I would bring the note sheet anyways, even if they're not going to use it. Just as insurance, you know.

sweetcoop wrote:Can anyone give me advice on teaching Ecology to the members on your team that are interested in the event.

I would pretend that you're teaching a class and do it that way. I'd also get plenty of notes and problems/questions from the internet, so that the people who are interested can see what the event covers and what the questions would be like.

even if people say that ecology would be really easy with a notes sheet, doesn't mean they're gonna ignore it and not make one entirely, that's stupid.
also, sweetcoop, I think I would suggest finding good online powerpoints and teach like a teacher in bio class. make them take their own notes. and then test later.

Yeah but don't feed them the information, teach them a bit, then ask a simple question. Good luck.

sewforlife wrote:also, sweetcoop, I think I would suggest finding good online powerpoints and teach like a teacher in bio class. make them take their own notes. and then test later.

Yes. Usually, but not all of the time, you can see how dedicated someone is by how much notes they take. If they aren't taking any, that means they either a) have a really, really good memory, b) already know what you're teaching them or c) aren't really that interested. Also, I would periodically make sure that they have some idea of what you're talking about because if none of them know, and you test them on it, you might have an issue.

My school doesn't assign events the way yours does, so feel free to listen to/ignore my comments as you see fit.

AlphaTauri wrote:

sewforlife wrote:also, sweetcoop, I think I would suggest finding good online powerpoints and teach like a teacher in bio class. make them take their own notes. and then test later.

Yes. Usually, but not all of the time, you can see how dedicated someone is by how much notes they take. If they aren't taking any, that means they either a) have a really, really good memory, b) already know what you're teaching them or c) aren't really that interested. Also, I would periodically make sure that they have some idea of what you're talking about because if none of them know, and you test them on it, you might have an issue.

My school doesn't assign events the way yours does, so feel free to listen to/ignore my comments as you see fit.

my school is probably the only one on this whole site that does it the way we do.

Oops. I wasn't very clear. I meant sweetcoop's school, not yours. Sorry for any confusion I may have caused.

AlphaTauri wrote:Oops. I wasn't very clear. I meant sweetcoop's school, not yours. Sorry for any confusion I may have caused.

At my school we choose the events that we wanted to do that teams were assigned for the people that wanted to do certian events.

Just made a grasslands section for the wiki. I'll continue. Try to keep the format if you'd like to edit as well.

EDIT: It is now the longest event wiki featured on the main page (Would be the longest overall if it weren't for DS and his "Series on Mission Possible" )