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Elizabeth Augustine of Pohnpei presented the use of Piper methysticum, sakau, for the treatment of cuts. The juice of the leaf is used to help staunch blood flow. Past presentations suggest this action is broadly present in Piperaceae. Marvin Bartolome of Pohnpei presented the use of tehn kuapa for diarrhea. Every term a student pulls guava leaves from the tree outside the classroom and presents this broadly known cure. Four young leaves are used. Marvin also noted that the leaves can be used to treat the sickness that follows loss of virginity in a female. Beverly Billy of Chuuk presented the same guava based cured for diarrhea in Chuuk. Beverly also noted the used of the inside of a coconut palm frond petiole as an alternate treatment. Darleen Charley covered the use of karamahd (coleus) leaves in the treatment of boils. The juice of crushed leaves are applied to the boil after the boil has broken open. Other plants are used to bring a boil to a head and c...

My "office" at the college is a desk on one side of the open reception area in the math science division. I have sat in that open space since 2003. I like to say "My door is not only always open, I do not even have a door to close." On Monday the ninth of February my office desktop computer rolled over and died. I had nothing of importance on the hard drive. My college email is IMAP, my files are cloud based, and all my courses use Schoology LMS. All assignments are submitted via Schoology , I am closing in on paperlessness. I realized that the only item I use in my office is the desktop computer. There was nothing left to tether me to my office. Just a place to visit to consult the few references I have that are not yet on line. I found I can wander campus, staying in touch with students via Schoology, email, and even FaceBook Messenger, interacting and assisting students wherever they are on campus. My Android cell top becomes my prime on line communication ...

Laboratory four has evolved into the laboratory in which I really do not know exactly which approach I will take until I walk in the door. That may sound horribly unprepared, but careful planning has sometimes yielded strong learning experiences and other times, even when exactly repeated, has gone flat and left the student either confused or filled with misconceptions. The basic structure of the laboratory remains the same term to term, but subtle changes in the way the material is introduced appears to have large effects on where the students take the laboratory.  Williamson Rodriguez explains a theory to Einstain Malakai and Jerlian Raymond Whether the laboratory floats or sinks depends heavily on small group dynamics and interactions among the students. This is delicate group behavior and interaction territory. This term I did not start with a demonstration. I only put questions on the board. "When one marble is rolled into a line of five marbles on a ruler ...

The traditional plants of Pohnpei garden is apparently getting a make-over as an area for the support of agriculture, food technologies, and natural resources program. While some plants remain, others have been removed to make room for raised bed gardens. The core area of the healing plants garden was in the process of having the grass cut. The money for the crew that tended the healing plants garden is no longer available. About half of the north side was overgrown with reh padil at the time of the visit. The sense of  garden in decay saddened me sufficiently that I opted not to take pictures of the north side of the garden. I had asked the person who drove the creation of the garden to put the garden at the national campus where I might be able to defend the garden, but there were very solid reasons for locating the garden on Pohnpei campus. One of those reasons was the proximity of Kolonia school and the potential to use the garden as a living herbarium and teaching tool. ...

Laboratory three in SC 130 Physical Science investigated whether there is a quadratic (parabolic) relationship between the time and distance for a ball falling to the ground. The laboratory also sought to determine the value of the acceleration of gravity g? Roselynn Beelyaw, Leah Torwan This laboratory used to build on two earlier activities that during a regular school term usually occur on Monday and Wednesday respectively. The first activity was a plot of time versus distance for an accelerating RipStik. Based on the RipStik activity, there was a non-linear relationship (curved line) between time and distance for the accelerating RipStik. In the second activity, the arc of a ball activity, the students explore whether the trajectory of a ball might be related to a parabola. A quadratic equation is presented as the underlying mathematical relationship. The students graph their data and the equation to explore whether the ball arc and the equation are related. These ...

The seedless vascular plants presentations began with coverage of a bacteria, cyanobacteria. Nicole Albert and Simon Augustine present the different cell types found in cyanobacteria: heterocysts, akiinetes, and vegetative cells. Crucially, they missed noting that vegetative cells engage in photosynthesis. Sebastian Yinnifel and Marvin Bartolome covered the life cycle of moss with a very well done drawing. Moss life cycle. Beverly Billy presented while Darleen Charley assisted. Esmirelda holds forth on the life cycle of Lycopodiella cernua. Lycopodiella cernua life cycle. Kohsak Keller and Bryan Wichep with a very detailed coverage of Lycophyte morphology. Gordon Loyola and Patty Mario cover the life cycle of ferns. Common themes such as spore production, and independent gametophyte stage tie these plants together. Fern life cycle diagram. Petery Peter and Franson Simeon lead the class through fern morphological descriptors. Good im...