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Lab section syllabus <--click there to download a PDF file of the lab syllabus.

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General information about the labs (skip down)

Lab Assignment #1: Cloud Portfolio

This assignment is due by Friday, December 4, 2009. DOWNLOAD THE PDF FILE HERE

Lab Assignment #2: Weather Observations

This assignment is due by Wednesday, December 2, 2009. You will receive further instructions by email later. DOWNLOAD THE PDF FILE HERE

Lab Assignment #3a: Weather Map Analysis

This assigment is due Monday, November 30, 2009. DOWNLOAD THE PDF FILE HERE

Lab Assignment #3b: Fronts and Cyclones

This assignment is due by Friday, December 4, 2009.

Who should take the lab section?

For students entering UCLA in Fall 2002 and after:

Your GE requirements in "Foundations of Scientific Inquiry" are 18 units with at least:

• One 5-unit course in Physical Science with a lab/demo component
• One 5-unit course in Life Science with a lab/demo component

This means you need two more science courses of only 4 units (or more) each (one each of Physical and Life Sciences) and they do not need to have a lab/demo component.

You have two options:

• Take A&O Sci 3 and A&O Sci 3L concurrently for a total of 5 units. This will satisfy the Physical Sciences w/lab component requirement.
• Take A&O Sci 3 only (no lab) for 4 units. This will count toward the "Scientific Inquiry" requirement but not the Physical Sciences w/lab requirement. You will need to take another Physical Science course that has a lab (may I shamelessly suggest A&O Sci 2 + A&O Sci 2L, or A&O Sci 1 + A&O Sci 1L?).

General information about the lab for everyone

The lab section and the lecture/discussion are to be taken together. You cannot get credit for the lab in a separate quarter.

Lab Assignments. There will be three lab assignments. These assignments may take the form of worksheets where you do calculations, plot graphs and so on. They may also involve taking weather observations and analyzing them, and printing out a series of weather maps over several days and using them to make a weather forecast.

Communication about the lab assignments. Information about the labs, availability of lab worksheets, due dates, and such is broadcasted by mass email. You must have a valid email address entered into the Registrar's system via URSA. Failure to do so may mean you may miss some important messages about the labs. If you are not a regularly enrolled UCLA student, you can monitor announcements on this website and announcements in lecture.

Grading. Each lab assignment is worth 33 or 34 points. The final course grade for the lecture and lab will be a single grade based on the points earned from the lecture section and the lab section added together (i.e., out of 1100 points). Your transcript will show two separate grades, one for the lecture and one for the lab, but they will be the same (unless you set one for a letter grade and the other P/NP). The grade breakdown will be the same percentages noted for the lecture section.

You must write up your own labs. While you may collaborate with other students in the course while you work on the labs, you cannot have people not enrolled in the course help you with the labs or do the lab work for you. Students who have proxies complete their lab work will have the assignments put on deferred status and the case will be prosecuted by the Office of the Dean of Students.