Homework Assigned March 20th Due April 3

There will be NO CLASSES ON FRIDAY, MARCH 27TH. Instead, we will do our make up during a longer class on the last day of class, May 1st, doing an outdoor biology and chemistry freshwater lab at the Hunt residence.

Please complete and bring to class on April 3rd the take home test sent by separate email

We have a lot to accomplish before the end of the year. I will send individual emails to the students with the dates that their presentations are due.

Below are pasted the links for the virtual dissections of the sheep's brain (thanks to Brenna for the Wellesley college video):

Sheep Brain Dissection



http://www.exploratorium.edu./memory/braindissection/index.html



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyWT18x2x94&feature=related




Please read chapters 37 (Circulatory and Respiratory Systems) and 39 (Endocrine and Reproductive Systems) and answer the section assessment questions (these are the 4-6 question answers spread throughout the chapters). Change as of March 30th: Read only Sections 1 and 2 and answer questions for Chapter 39. We will read chapters 38 and 40 for next week.

Homework Assigned March 13th Due March 20th

This week we dissected cow eyes. Below are links to some virtual dissections, to help with the lab notebooks:

http://www.eschoolonline.com/company/examples/eye/eyedissect.html

http://exploratorium.edu/learning_studio/cow_eye/

http://www.forgefx.com/casestudies/prenticehall/ph/cow-eye/cow-eye.htm

Everyone should at least look at the Exploratorium video, which has great information. Please print out and bring to class the handouts attached to the email sent March 15th.


I have requested that everyone communicate individually with me about their projects. We have to start scheduling presentations starting in the next few weeks. Have at least 2 references and start to put some thought into how you will do the presentation. Please email me if you need any help. I have decided to assign the promised take home test for over the week off (REMINDER: there are NO CLASSES at MMEC on Friday, March 27th) and instead am requesting that everyone bring in their completed lab notebooks so that I can check them and know that you are prepared for the take home test. Please complete the section assessments for chapters 35 and 36 if you haven't already, and email them to me so that I can correct them and address any problems or questions before you are taking the test.

I also need to announce that there will be no Biology class on Friday, April 17th for Biology Students only. Make up details to follow shortly.

Homework assigned March 6th due March 13th

During the lab on Friday the students started anatomy workbooks. We re-visited the lab from the week before (modeling sight defects). We discussed and wrote down the information that needs to be put in the lab notebook. Since most of these labs are dissections and looking at anatomy, we will not do formal write-ups. The students will be graded on the quality of their notebooks and information will be used from the labs in the take home tests.

The lab this week focused on aspects of the skeletal-muscular system. We used examples of different hinges and applied movement of various pieces of hardware to our own bodies and how they move in an attempt to classify the types of joints in our bodies. We then dissected a chicken wing and looked at and manipulated the tendons, ligaments and muscles and determined how and where they are attached to each other and how they function in moving the body. This lab is on page 930 of the textbook. Please answer all lab questions in your lab notebook and add more information/background based on the lab.

Homework to be passed in on March 13th: students should read chapter 36, Skeletal, Muscular and Integumentary Systems and answer questions on p.925, 931 and 936.