syllabus

 Tentative schedule!

final grades 

                       Lecture Topics                               Campbell text(?)          Lab Exercise

Week 1            Introduction                                                                         

Jan 2-4             Phylogenetics


        


Week 2            Germ Cells/Gametogenesis           Ch 47                           phylogenies

Jan 7-11           Cleavage                                                                            and observation lab

 

Week 3            Gastrulation/ Neurulation               Ch 21                           Development lab

Jan 14-18         Neurulation/ Axis Development                                       

Journal #1 DUE AT THE BEGINNING OF CLASS ON Jan 15th  

Group Project Proposed Topics due Jan 17th in class

 

 terms to know from lab 1 and development lab

Week 4            Animal Reproduction                    Ch 46                           No lab - Holiday

Jan 22-25         Endocrine System                          Ch 45

 

Week 5            Nervous System                            Ch 48                           Diversity lab

                    there is a cd rom for this lecture 

 EXAM #1 DUE AT THE BEGINNING OF CLASS ON Jan 31st (Taxonomy, Dev, Repro, Endocrine)

Jan 28-Feb1

 

Week 6            Special Senses                               Ch 48                           Diversity lab - terms

Feb 4-8           

PAPER Rough Draft DUE AT THE BEGINNING OF CLASS ON Feb 7th  

 

Week 7            Skeletal Muscle                              Ch 49                           Nervous system lab

Feb11-15         Cardiovascular                               Ch 42                         

Journal #2 DUE AT THE BEGINNING OF CLASS ON Feb 14th   

 

Week 8            Cardiovascular                              Ch 42                           No lab - Holiday

Feb 19-22        Immunity

EXAM #2 DUE AT THE BEGINNING OF CLASS ON Feb 21st (NS, Special Senses, Skeletal, CV)

 

Week 9            Respiration                                    Ch 42                           Circulation lab

                                                                                                                                                    circulation lab terms

 

Feb 25-29                                                                                               

PAPER Final Draft DUE AT THE BEGINNING OF CLASS ON Feb 28th  

 

Week 10          Digestion                                       Ch 41                           Respiration lab

Mar 3-7                                                                                                     

Journal #3 DUE AT THE BEGINNING OF CLASS ON march 6th

 

Week 11          Osmoregulation                             Ch 44                           Digestion lab                Urogenital lab

Mar 10-14                                                                                                digestion and osmoreg lab vocab

 

 

Week 12          Osmoregulation                                                                Oral Group Project Presentations

Mar 17-21                                                             

EXAM #3 DUE by 10am on March 21st (Immunity, Resp, Digest, Osmoreg)

 

 CLASSES END ON MARCH 21ST  – PLEASE DO NOT SCHEDULE YOUR SPRING BREAK PLANS BEFORE THIS TIME!

 example papers

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Suggestions for lab notebooks:

  • If writing on graph paper, PLEASE write in pen or dark pencil; It's difficult to read pencil on a grid of dark ink.
  • Make sure all your notebook pages are attached to the notebook or inside a notebook pocket; If loose pages fall on the floor, I'll probably leave them there.
  • Please do not intersperse your lab pages with those of the lab protocol. Make it EASY for me to find your work. Place it in sequential order.
  • Please make your AIMS section more descriptive/specific and more complete. Reread the syllabus for guidance.
  • Anything worth drawing is worth labeling. Drawings without labels convey very little information.
  • In the AIM section, be specific about what you will do, how you will do it, what types of material you will use to accomplish the lab, etc.
  • Attach observations to your drawings. Write short notes about what different structures are used for, perhaps where the organism lives, etc. Extract maximum value from your time spent observing.
  • Please use scale bars and magnification.

·         Your interpretations should summarize and more importantly synthesize what you learned, refer back to your AIMS (did you meet them?), and include any additional inferences or ideas you generated based on your observations.

·         If you are not attending lab and not doing the lab activities – unless you have an excused absence – your lab will not be graded for that lab session/activity.

 


Example AIM:

In this lab we will explore the morphologic, developmental and physiologic diversity of the phylum Animalia. We will use dissections of both fresh and preserved material, prepared slides, live animals, posters, preserved whole specimens and internet images to explore patterns of change in organ systems and body plan arrangements from the simplest to most complex taxa. We will focus on tracking evolutionary changes in body symmetry, development of a coelomic cavity, the development and arrangement of tissues, and the appearance and increasing complexity of the respiratory, digestive, orsmoregulatory, nervous, and reproductive systems.