My experience in Lifescience
Life Science has always been my favorite subject from since I started Natural Science in primary school and Life science in high school, pursuing life sciences further has always been my passion as I am interested in knowing how the world works why certain things happen in nature and in humans and animals. Lifescience 151 has made the ECP programme more bearable and enjoyable. Life science 151 is basically a continuation of the life sciences we did in high school. Life science 151 covers all the content we did in high school but in more detail.
Life science is broken into three components lectures, tutorials and practicals.
In Lifescience151 classes I have benefitted a lot just by the attending the lecture. I get more information in lectures because I learn most from listening to someone and after that I can read what the lecture was explaining. The lifescience classes are convenient and are disciplined and the lecture starts right in time. In lifescience I can interact with the lectures and be able to get as much information and clarity in what in topics that were not clear to me.In life science I can interact with other students and discuss the work and we can explain the work to each other. The small class tests that we write during lectures have taught me a lot and the class work exercises have enabled me to be able to structure my sentences especially paragraph structure. The classwork exercises have forced me to pay attention in classes and go over my work after a lecture.
The lifescience tutorials have been very helpful to me as they serve as preparation for the tests. The tutorial classes are convenient and my tutor explains what is required of us for the tutorial and clarifies everything that may be unclear. Before we begin a tutorial the tutor go over the answers of the previous week tutorial. The tutorials have allowed me to think about the work. The lifescience tutorials help me to weigh my knowledge and assess my progress. The tutorials also help me to understand the work more and know what I must focus on and I should answer some questions.
In practicals you have to be on time all the time and the nice things about the practical skills is you get to use your practical skills. In lifescience practicals I have learnt the importance of following instructions and reading the manual before coming to the practical. In practicals I had the opportunity of using a microscope. I have learnt a lot about microscopes their parts, functions and different types such as compound and light microscope. The demy’s explain the work and are very helpful when you ask them to help you. In the practicals we have been given an opportunity to practice report writing and the importance of acknowledging the resources you use, which is referencing. The practicals are not boring at all we also have educational nature reserve walks, nice!
