Author:
STEPHEN DAVE DUPO
Subject:
Zoology
Material Type:
Activity/Lab, Full Course, Homework/Assignment, Module, Teaching/Learning Strategy
Level:
College / Upper Division
Tags:
  • Fisheries
  • Ichthyology
  • Zoology
  • License:
    Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike
    Language:
    English
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    Downloadable docs

    FISH 211: Ichthyology

    FISH 211: Ichthyology

    Overview

    This instructional material is intended for learners identified under the category of Blended Learning covering face-to-face and flexible learning activities.

    The Fish 211: Ichthyology instructional material is designed to achieve the learning outcomes of the subject course.This material covers the course guide and study guides of the fifteen (15) modules. Thus, the learning content of this material was prepared for the subject course. This is created to provide the needs of learners taking up the subject course, Ichthyology.

    This instructional material is intended for the use of Bachelor of Science in Fisheries students undertaking the Fish 211 subject course. This will enable the learners to achieve the intended outcomes of the subject course. Moreover, as students go along with this material, this will provide them with guidance and learning activities throughout the duration of their study.

    This material contains the necessary instructions, course guide, and study guides towards the completion of this subject course. The Course Guide will introduce the learners to what are the preaparations and precautions in the subject course. Study Guides which are assigned to each modules consist of topic outlines, learning activities, learning tasks, and study questions.

    THE COURSE GUIDE

     

    ICHTHYOLOGY

     

    COURSE DESCRIPTION

    This course deals with the biology, classification and life history of fishes with emphasis on commercial fishes.

     

    COURSE OBJECTIVES

    At the end of the course, the students should be able to:

    1. Understand the world of fishes;

    2. Identify and name the functions of the external and internal parts of a fish

    3. Discuss the importance of maintaining a diverse fish population

    4. Describe, classify and identify commercially important species

    5. Explain the systematics of fishes

     

    COURSE OUTLINE

    This course contains fifteen (15) modules with their corresponding titles.        

    Module 1. Orientation

    Module 2. Introduction to Ichthyology

    Module 3. Forms and Structures

    Module 4. Respiration and Circulation

    Module 5. Buoyancy and Thermal Regulation

    Module 6. Feeding, Nutrition, Digestion and Excretion

    Module 7. Reproduction

    Module 8. Sensory Perception

    Module 9. Fish Diversity

    Module 10. Fish Classification and Evolution

    Module 11. Hagfishes and Lampreys

    Module 12. Minnows, Characins and Catfishes

    Module 13. Perciformes: Snooks to Snakeheads

    Module 14. Zoogeography of Fishes

    Module 15. Relationship Between Fishes and Man

     

    COURSE MATERIALS

    The following course materials will be used:

    1. This course guide

    2. Study guides for each module, which include the lecture notes and learning activity guides

    3. Modules (uploaded in the course site)

    4. Video learning materials

    5. Additional reading materials in digital format to be made available in the course site/virtual classroom

     

    The study guides, video materials, and readings shall be posted on the virtual classroom. All learning resources can be downloaded on your computer/laptops/android phones so you can review them as often as you wish without having to go online all the time.  

     

    STUDY SCHEDULE

     

    WEEK

    DATE

    (Tentative schedules, subject to changes)

    MODULE

    FLEXIBLE LEARNING ACTIVITIES

    1

    03-07 August 2020

    Module 1 and Module 2

    • Read the Course Guide

    • Read the Study Guide

    • Self-introductions

    • Read Online Resources

    • Study the given learning material

    • View Video Lectures

    • Do online quiz and obtain with at least 70% passing score

    • Do the assigned Learning Activity:

    2-3

    10-14 and 17-21 August 2020

    Module 3

    • Read the Study Guide

    • Study the given learning material

    • Read Online Resources

    • View Video Lectures

    • Participate in Online Discussion

    •  Do online quiz and obtain with at least 70% passing score

    • Do the assigned Learning Activity: Identification of External and Internal Parts of Fishes

    • Do the assigned Learning Activity: Fish Dissection

    4

    24-28 August 2020

    Module 4

    • Read the Study Guide

    • Read the Online Resources

    • View Video Lectures

    • Participate in Online Discussion

    • Do online quiz and obtain with at least 70% passing score

    •  

    5

    31 August to 4 September 2020

    Module 5

     

    6-7

    7-11 and 14-18 September 2020

    Module 6

     

    8

    21-25 September 2020

    Module 7

     

    9

    28-30 September to 1-2 October 2020

    MIDTERM EXAM

    10

    5-9 October 2020

    Module 8

     

    11

    12-16 October 2020

    Module 9

     

    12

    19-23 October 2020

    Module 10

     

    13

    26-30 October 2020

    Module11

     

    14

    2-6 November 2020

    Module 12

     

    15

    9-13 November 2020

    Module 13

     

    16

    16-20 November 2020

    Module 14

     

    17

    23-27 November 2020

    Module 15

     

    18

    30 November to 1-4 December 2020

    FINAL EXAM

     

    COURSE REQUIREMENTS

    Your learning will greatly depend on how much effort you will put into the course. To be able to pass the subject course, you must satisfy the following requirements:

    1. Participate in all online discussion forums.

    2. Do the online quiz and get an average score of 70% or better.

    3. Accomplished and Submitted all the assigned learning and laboratory activities.

    4. Passed the practicals/moving exams.

    5. Passed the written midterm and final term examinations with 70% passing mark.

     

    If you have further questions, you can contact your teacher. But make sure you thoroughly read all the instructions clearly. All the important instructions you need to know have been incorporated in these guides.

    GENERAL GUIDELINES/HOUSE RULES

    Please comply with the following house rules:

    1. Uphold academic integrity and intellectual honesty as a learner for these two are very important in development work. Avoid cheating or plagiarism at all times. Copying the works of others without proper citation is not allowed and is illegal.

    2. Observe deadlines. Submit your assignments, learning and laboratory activities on time. Follow the schedule of course activities. Make a study schedule so as not to interrupt your study with the other unnecessary chores.

    3. Follow the guidelines of each learning activities.

    4. For online discussions for this course, a separate discussion forum will be created for each topic. learners are encouraged to contribute by answering the questions and/or reacting to each other’s postings. Be clear on what your main point is and express it as concisely as possible.

    5. Strictly follow citation etiquette in your learning activities such as journals, discussions when using/borrowing the works of others.

    For more inquiries in relation to this course, the Faculty-in-charge is available through the course site.

     

    THE FACULTY-IN-CHARGE

    Stephen Dave M. Dupo

    Instructor

    Department of Fisheries, CA

    University of Southern Mindanao (USM)

    Email: Dupzskyscraperz@gmail.com 

    STUDY GUIDE 1

    orientation

    Fish 211: Ichthyology

    MODULE 1: Orientation


     

    INTRODUCTION

    Greetings, learners!

    Welcome to the subject course, Fish 211. Before we dig deeper and go on to the other modules of this subject course, let us equipped ourselves first with the proper course orientation. This first module will serve as an entrance, as well as guidance towards the completion of this subject course.

    This module consists of topics that will answer the questions, “What are the existing school policies to obey?”, “What is this subject course all about?”, “How can I finish this subject course?”, “What are the course requirements?”, “How will the teacher assess my outputs and compute for my grades?” and other questions goes on. At the end of this module, a section will be provided to raise your other questions, inquiries, and/or clarifications, if there’s any. The teacher will provide his/her contact information in that section and you will also be asked about yours so that your concern will be addressed as soon as possible.

    The topics covered in this module are the following:

    • USM School Policies

    • Institution’s Vision, Mission, Goals and Objectives

    • Course Overview and Course Requirement

    • Grading Systems

    Each of the topics has a learning activity to guide you on what to do and what are to be done. Learning activity can be studying/reading a learning material, watching/viewing the lecture videos, and/or answering practice test and laboratory activities. At the end of learning activity, a study questions will guide you as a self-reflection of what you have learned.

    There are icons used in this module. Here are some of them.

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    KEY CONCEPTS- This is a bulleted summary of important information about the topic.

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    LEARNING ACTIVITY-  This includes a list of instructions for accessing the learning resources and activities to be done.

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    STUDY QUESTIONS- After completing each learning activity, study questions will be provided to reflect on the lessons learned.

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    DISCUSSION FORUMS- participate in educational discussion forums of a given particular topic. This will help you in expressing your thoughts and opinions based on facts. This is part of the course requirements, thus, skipping this section will affect your grade upon computation.

    You are ready now in exploring the entrance towards the completion of this module. Off we go!

    LEARNING OBJECTIVES

    After studying this module, you should be able to:

    1. Articulate the USM VMGO

    2. Familiar the content and scope of the subject course, the course guide and the grading system

    TOPIC OUTLINE

    The topics under this module are as follows:

    1. USM School Policies

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    Why there is a need to have school policies?

    • Based on Sami (2018), a policy within an organization has a general intention to set rules and principles to exercise the ease of governance.

    • According to a post by Granite School District (2020), the importance of establishing policies within an organization such as school institution are the following:

    • Guide acceptable behavior and ensure safety environment for students, teachers and the school staff

    • Help create productive learning environment

    • Help create standards of quality for learning

    • Maintain compliance

    • Equality

     

    Learning Activity

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    In this topic, secure and read a copy of the USM Student Manual. This manual will guide you on the existing school policies of USM. Review and be familiar again of what are the Do’s and Don’ts inside the campus. As a university student, you are expected to adhere all the quality standards set by the university for you. As an institution of higher learning, you are hereby to follow and to obey the present and existing rules and regulations set by the teacher, unit heads, and the university’s administration. There are attached copies assigned for you to read and be familiar with. These are:

    1. General Guidelines/House Rules of the Fish 221 Course Guide

    2. Classroom Policies of the Fish 221 Course Syllabus

     

    Study Questions

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    After studying the assigned reading materials on School and other related Policies, answer the following questions.  

    1. For you as a student, what is the most important Classroom policy? And Why?

    2. Under the General Guidelines/House Rules, what for you is the most important one? Defend your answer.  

    3. List at least three important lessons you learned from studying in the university.

     

    2. Institution’s Vision, Mission, Goals and Objectives

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    Mission and vision give clarity and direction for a school. Mission is how you would describe your schools to others, while vision helps people understand how you hope others will view you, and describes some of your highest priorities (Center for School Change, 2020).Here are some of the definition based on edglosarry.org (2015):

    • Vision- A vision statement, or simply a vision, is a public declaration that schools or other educational organizations use to describe their high-level goals for the future—what they hope to achieve if they successfully fulfill their organizational purpose or mission

    • Mission- A mission statement, or simply a mission, is a public declaration that schools or other educational organizations use to describe their founding purpose and major organizational commitments—i.e., what they do and why they do it.

     

    Learning Activity

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    Visit the USM official website and look for the school’s Vision, Mission, Goals and Objectives. You can go directly to the web page thru this link below:https://www.usm.edu.ph/about-usm/mandates-vision-mission/This is the official web page of the USM. The institution’s mandates, vision and mission can be found in this source. Retrieved 20 May 2020.After that, do this Activity:

    1. Review and familiarize the words stated in the USM’s VMGO.

    2. Using a phone or other recording devices, make a record by uttering the words stated in USM’s VMGO. NOTE: You should have no any other copy of the school’s VMGO during recording proper.

    3. Save your recorded audio. Play it, and listen to yourself.

    4. Answer the Study Questions below.

     

    Study Questions

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    After completing the assigned activity, answer the following questions.  

    1. Based on listening to yourself in the recorded audio, did you precisely utter all the right words?

    2. How many words did you missed if you did not recite it perfectly?

    3. Identify the four-fold functions of USM.

    4. Explain the four-fold functions of USM and give each one an example.

     

    3. Course Overview and Course Requirement

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    Course Overview

    • Course Number and Title: Fish 211/ Ichthyology

    • Course Description: This course deals with the biology, classification and life history of fishes with emphasis on commercial fishes.

    • Semester/Academic Year: 1ST /2020-2021

    • Date Offering: 3 Aug-10 Dec 2020 (Tentative)

    • Teacher: STEPHEN DAVE M. DUPO

    • Language: English

    • Institution: University of Southern Mindanao

    Course Requirement

    • There is specific list of requirements you need to complete by the end of the course.

    • Learning activities have deadlines.

    • Failure to comply at least one (1) remaining course requirement will be subjected to an INCOMPLETE (INC) grade at the end of semester or when the teacher already posted the grades.  

     

    Learning Activity

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    The activities you need to accomplish are the following:

    1. Review the details of your Certificate of Registration (COR). Check if the course number and title, and the date are accurate.

    2. Read the Fish 221 Course Guide and the Fish 221 Course Syllabus. Familiarize yourself with the course description, course outcomes, course outline, course materials, study schedule, and course requirements.

    3.  Make an outline of your personal study plan for Fish 221.

     

    Study Questions

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    After completing the activity for this topic, answer the questions below.

    1. Do you have what it takes to finish this subject?

    2. What is your ultimate goal to finish this course subject?

    3. What is your motivation to comply all the requirements?

    4. What are the interesting topics for you after you have scanned the course outline? Can you give at least top 3 topics?

    5. From numbers 1 to 10 as 10 being the highest, rate your preparedness in completing this subject course. Also answer the question, “why did you pick that number?”

     

    4. Grading Systems

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    • There are corresponding points to every outputs that you will be accomplished. Learning activities such as discussion forums, quizzes, journals, and laboratory activities will be assessed based on the given set of criteria or rubrics.

    • There will be two types of exam that will be given throughout the duration of the course. One is a formative exam, which will be in a form of chapter quizzes or practice tests. The next is a summative exam, which will be administered during midterm examination and final term examination.  

    • Attendance, exams (formative and summative), assignments, participation, and laboratory activities have corresponding percentage.

    • Grades within the midterm and grades within the final term will be computed separately.

    • The midterm grade and the final term grade are components of the final grade.

    • In case all the outputs are graded in percentage form, it will be converted to its equivalent numeric value upon posting of the final grades.

     

    Learning Activity

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    These are the activities under this topic:

    1. Review the grading system provided in Fish 221 Course Syllabus.

    2. Take note and be familiar with the breakdown of percentage per learning area.

    3. Look at the formula and analyze how your grades are computed.

    4. Answer this activity:

    These are the corresponding set of percentage per area declared by your teacher.     

    Quizzes- 20%                  Term Examination- 30%              Laboratory- 50%                                

    Formula for Midterm Grade (MG) and Final term Grade (FG):

    • MG/FG= Quizzes + Term Examination + Laboratory Grade

    • Final Grade= 50% of MG + 50% of FG

    Supposed that your actual outputs for Midterm and Final Term are the following:                                                                                                 Midterm                          Final Term

    Quizzes                                                you scored 50 out of 60                  30/70

    Term Exam                                                          60/100                             90/100

    Lab Grade                                                            85/90                               87/100

    Compute for: the MG and FGNow, what is your Final grade?

    Your answer: _________________.

    Contact your teacher to assist you in converting it to its numeric equivalent.

     

     

    Study Questions

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    After completing the activity, answer these questions.

    1. Are you aware now on how to solve your grade?

    2. What are your realizations after you computed a grade?

    3. Set a grade in numeric value that you want to achieve after you completed all the requirements and finished the Fish 221 subject course.

     

    DISCUSSION FORUMS

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    SELF-INTRODUCTION FORUM:

    Hello there, learners!  Welcome again to our course on FISH 221.  One of our activities for this course is to know one another. Let us share information about ourselves:

    Name: _________________________________________________________________

    Nickname (how you want to be referred to): _________________________________

    Educational Attainment/ Discipline: _________________________________________

    Reason for taking this course: ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

    Work Background, if applicable:  __________________________________________

    Present Location: _______________________________________________________

    Expectations (from the course, faculty, learning strategies, etc.): _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

    Other relevant information that need to be considered in the course (social roles performed, learning conditions, etc.): __________________________________________________________________________________________

    You are very much free to make use of any form of introduction such as video, comics, and others so long as the minimum required content are provided.

    I look forward to a lively discussion and fruitful learning in this class. Good luck everyone!

     

    Other Questions. You can write/post in this section your other questions, queries and clarifications that needed to be address the soonest possible way.

    Your Contact Information:

    Your Questions:

     

    TEACHER'S CONTACT INFORMATION:

    STEPHEN DAVE M. DUPO

    INSTRUCTOR

    DEPARTMENT OF FISHERIES, CA

    USM, KABACAN, COTABATO

    EMAIL ADDRESS: Dupzskyscraperz@gmail.com

    References:

    Edglosarry.Org. (2015). Mission and Vision. The Glossary of Education Reform. Great Schools Partnership. Accessed 22 May 2020 from https://www.edglossary.org/mission-and-vision/ 

    Center for School Change. (2020). Vision and Mission. Available and retrieved 22 May 2020 from https://centerforschoolchange.org/publications/minnesota-charter-school-handbook/vision-and-mission/ 

    Granite School District. (2020). Policies and Procedures. Plymouth Elementary School, 5220 South 1470 West, Taylorsville UT 84123. Retrieved 22 May 2020 from https://schools.graniteschools.org/plymouth/policies-procedures/ 

    Sami, U. M. (2018).  Importance of Policies in School Education Ecosystem. Retrieved 22 May 2020 on https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/importance-policies-school-education-ecosystem-sami-ulla-m.

    University of Southern Mindanao (USM). (nd). The USM Student Manual.  

    University of Southern Mindanao (USM). 2019. Mandates, Vision & Mission. This source is retrieved 20 May 2020 from https://www.usm.edu.ph/about-usm/mandates-vision-mission/ 

    University of Southern Mindanao (USM). 2019. Student. Retrieved 20 May 2020 from https://www.usm.edu.ph/student/