END OF YEAR NOTE: Don't forget to pay the lab fee and turn in your (undamaged?) textbook
About the course:
CAHS Human Anatomy & Physiology is a college-preperatory course designed to introduce students to the structure and function of the human body.
SCROLL DOWN for recommended tutorials and detailed class events
SCROLL DOWN for recommended tutorials and detailed class events
Recommended Sites for Review and Practice:
NOTES:
-Some YouTube and TeacherTube videos are generally good review; just search for topics to review on these sites
-Click on title below to open link if the link is not given
Overall:
Help with pronouncing terminology at http://www.howjsay.com/
Citation Machine at http://citationmachine.net
The GREAT "Essential Study Partner" review site for our textbook
Wonderful interactive textbook for anatomy
ACT testprep site: http://www.actstudent.org
Chapter 1: Introduction, Directional and Regional terms:
Directional Terms Review
Great animations for the entire chapter
Sections and Planes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSpMub-xHNc&feature=youtu.be
Chapter 6: Integumentary System
Integumentary system animation/video
Aging skin/color/fingerprints
Chapter 7 and 8: Skeletal System and Joints:
Skull anatomy TeacherTube tutorial
Another skull anatomy tutorial
Hand anatomy tutorial
Vertebral column tutorial
Chapter 9: Muscular System:
WATCH THIS! "Tiny Robot Walks Using Rat Heart Muscle"
Interactive skeletal muscle tutorial
Scroll down to view micrographs of muscle cells
Another YouTube animation - focusing on the sliding filament theory
YouTube Muscle fiber video: http://youtu.be/83yNoEJyP6g
Another Youtube video on sliding filaments : http://youtu.be/kvMFdNw35L0
Crash Course video "Big Guns": http://youtu.be/jqy0i1KXUO4
Cornell University - good review info over energy use and muscle fibers
Great game to practice muscle naming
Another muscle naiming/locating game- http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/body/index_interactivebody.shtml
Sumo Wrestler Training
Yet another naming game for practice - http://www.wisc-online.com/Objects/ViewObject.aspx?ID=MEA204
Video about skeletal muscle naming - http://www.dnatube.com/video/2117/Anatomy--Skeletal-Muscle-Naming-Criterias
Frog legs and salt - http://youtu.be/2YZJt_Bw3eo
Great site for practice - I especially like the flashcard images - http://anatomycorner.com/main/anatomy-topics/muscles/
Chapters 14-15: Blood and Cardiovascular:
Play The Blood Typing Game
GREAT -YouTube video of Heart anatomy
Fun and Fabulous - You Tube video of "The Circulatory Song"
Heart Contraction and Blood Flow Tutorial
Virtual Heart: http://www.medtropolis.com/vbody.asp
Internal Heart: http://www.gwc.maricopa.edu/class/bio202/cyberheart/hartint0.htm
http://www.msichicago.org/education/live-from-the-heart/overview/about-lfth/about-lfth/heart-animation/
Anatomy of Heart and Blood Vessels
Info on CO poisoning
Sheep Heart dissection explanation via YouTube
-Some YouTube and TeacherTube videos are generally good review; just search for topics to review on these sites
-Click on title below to open link if the link is not given
Overall:
Help with pronouncing terminology at http://www.howjsay.com/
Citation Machine at http://citationmachine.net
The GREAT "Essential Study Partner" review site for our textbook
Wonderful interactive textbook for anatomy
ACT testprep site: http://www.actstudent.org
Chapter 1: Introduction, Directional and Regional terms:
Directional Terms Review
Great animations for the entire chapter
Sections and Planes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSpMub-xHNc&feature=youtu.be
Chapter 6: Integumentary System
Integumentary system animation/video
Aging skin/color/fingerprints
Chapter 7 and 8: Skeletal System and Joints:
Skull anatomy TeacherTube tutorial
Another skull anatomy tutorial
Hand anatomy tutorial
Vertebral column tutorial
Chapter 9: Muscular System:
WATCH THIS! "Tiny Robot Walks Using Rat Heart Muscle"
Interactive skeletal muscle tutorial
Scroll down to view micrographs of muscle cells
Another YouTube animation - focusing on the sliding filament theory
YouTube Muscle fiber video: http://youtu.be/83yNoEJyP6g
Another Youtube video on sliding filaments : http://youtu.be/kvMFdNw35L0
Crash Course video "Big Guns": http://youtu.be/jqy0i1KXUO4
Cornell University - good review info over energy use and muscle fibers
Great game to practice muscle naming
Another muscle naiming/locating game- http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/body/index_interactivebody.shtml
Sumo Wrestler Training
Yet another naming game for practice - http://www.wisc-online.com/Objects/ViewObject.aspx?ID=MEA204
Video about skeletal muscle naming - http://www.dnatube.com/video/2117/Anatomy--Skeletal-Muscle-Naming-Criterias
Frog legs and salt - http://youtu.be/2YZJt_Bw3eo
Great site for practice - I especially like the flashcard images - http://anatomycorner.com/main/anatomy-topics/muscles/
Chapters 14-15: Blood and Cardiovascular:
Play The Blood Typing Game
GREAT -YouTube video of Heart anatomy
Fun and Fabulous - You Tube video of "The Circulatory Song"
Heart Contraction and Blood Flow Tutorial
Virtual Heart: http://www.medtropolis.com/vbody.asp
Internal Heart: http://www.gwc.maricopa.edu/class/bio202/cyberheart/hartint0.htm
http://www.msichicago.org/education/live-from-the-heart/overview/about-lfth/about-lfth/heart-animation/
Anatomy of Heart and Blood Vessels
Info on CO poisoning
Sheep Heart dissection explanation via YouTube
Class Events:
Week of 4/29: Blood and Immune system action
- Discuss immune response on M, T, W
- Thursday lab: Blood typing - antigen/antibody response
- Friday: Quiz - Blood and Immunity
NEXT WEEK: Respiratory system - HW due 5/8 and 5/10 (respiratory system)
- Thursday lab: Blood typing - antigen/antibody response
- Friday: Quiz - Blood and Immunity
NEXT WEEK: Respiratory system - HW due 5/8 and 5/10 (respiratory system)
Week of 4/15: Blood
- HW due Tuesday 4/16 and Friday 4/19
- Quiz Friday 4/19
NEXT WEEK: finish Blood, review blood typing/antigen-antibody response. Quiz on 4/26
- Quiz Friday 4/19
NEXT WEEK: finish Blood, review blood typing/antigen-antibody response. Quiz on 4/26
Week of 4/8: Finish Cardiovascular system
* All spring break work due 4/8
- Discuss electrical path of heart stimulation, role of medulla in heart rate
- watch bypass surgery, discuss lifestyle choices and other treatments for blocked arteries
- Quiz on 4/11
- Sheep Heart Dissection on 4/12
- Discuss electrical path of heart stimulation, role of medulla in heart rate
- watch bypass surgery, discuss lifestyle choices and other treatments for blocked arteries
- Quiz on 4/11
- Sheep Heart Dissection on 4/12
Week of 3/18 - Spring Break: Cardiovascular System (ch. 15)
- 1st Quiz on Friday 3/22
- HW due Friday 3/22: read chapter 15, pps. 555-560, answer questions 1-11
- Spring break work was given to students by 3/25: a HW, a take-home quiz and an extra-credit assignment. ALL will be due the day we return from break; students may turn it in early!
- Sheep heart dissection the week we return from break; 3rd quiz (cardiovascular system)
- HW due Friday 3/22: read chapter 15, pps. 555-560, answer questions 1-11
- Spring break work was given to students by 3/25: a HW, a take-home quiz and an extra-credit assignment. ALL will be due the day we return from break; students may turn it in early!
- Sheep heart dissection the week we return from break; 3rd quiz (cardiovascular system)
Week of 3/11: LAST WEEK OF THE QUARTER
- We are working on the cardiovascular unit (Ch. 15)
- LAST Quiz on Thursday - MUSCLES again!
- LAST Quiz on Thursday - MUSCLES again!
Week of 2/25:muscle naming and locating
- Monday: finish up muscle fibers, start naming
- Tuesday - Thursday: more on naming
- Friday: Quiz
- HW: 3 assignments due next week, one on Monday, one on Thursday and one on Friday...next quiz on Friday
- Tuesday - Thursday: more on naming
- Friday: Quiz
- HW: 3 assignments due next week, one on Monday, one on Thursday and one on Friday...next quiz on Friday
Week of 2/19: Finishing up Muscle physiology
- Quiz Thursday 2/21
- Next week: Gross anatomy - time to name and locate muscles!
- Next week: Gross anatomy - time to name and locate muscles!
Week of 2/11: Muscles still
- Focusing on 9.3 and 9.4 with the biochemistry of muscle contraction, the anatomy of skeletal muscles and the role of genetics and training in muscle fiber type.
Week of 2/4: Muscular
- Completing notes on physiology of muscles contraction this week.
Week of Jan 28: Start Muscular System (Ch. 9)
-2nd Quiz of the quarter (a big one!) is on 1/29 (skeleton and joints)
- We will discuss the anatomy and physiology of muscles this week.
- We will discuss the anatomy and physiology of muscles this week.
Week of Jan 14: Qtr 3 - Joints (Ch. 8)
- Students will select teams to work on the joints project - presentations are 1/22 and 1/24
- There is one HW due on F 1/18, another due M 1/28; same days as the first two quizzes of the quarter
- Last week in Jan we will start the Muscles unit (ch. 9)
- There is one HW due on F 1/18, another due M 1/28; same days as the first two quizzes of the quarter
- Last week in Jan we will start the Muscles unit (ch. 9)
January 2013 - first week back is last week of Qtr 2!
- There are 3 "things" due the day we return from break: a HW, a Take-Home Quiz and an extra credit assignment
Week of 11/12: Thanksgiving is almost here!
-We watched a live knee replacement last week - very cool!
-Currently working on the skeletal system unit (ch. 7 and 8)
-Have HW due 11/13, and 11/16
-1st quiz of the unit on Friday 11/16
-Currently working on the skeletal system unit (ch. 7 and 8)
-Have HW due 11/13, and 11/16
-1st quiz of the unit on Friday 11/16
Week of 10/8:
- there are quizzes usually every Friday - this week's is on chapter 17
- There are two HW assignments due this week, one on Wed. and one on Friday
- There are two HW assignments due this week, one on Wed. and one on Friday
