Biology Assignment
The current events blog assignments are designed to promote critical thinking skills and the ability to effectively communicate ideas and information through reading, writing, speaking, and listening. For each of the blogs, you will be required to find one on-line news article (does not need to be local) discussing a scientific/biologic/pharmaceutical current event of interest reported in the 14 days prior to the due date and write a blog to answer the following questions using the blog format shown below:
Article Title -
Article Link -
Article Date -
(Paragraphs answering the following questions in at least 200 words)
1. What is the topic of the article? When and where did the event take place?
2. What is the main theme of the article and the issue described?
3. How does it relate to biological science and to you personally?
4. Why is the topic important?
5. How could you test the validity of the argument, or design an experiment to prove or disprove the theory or idea, presented in the article?