This week’s material focuses on articulations (joints), and it is the stepping-off point between the skeletal and muscular systems. Overall, this material is quite basic, but it does have a good deal of vocabulary that comes with it. When you get to the section on types of synovial joints, make sure you print out the table called Lecture Art: Types of Synovial Joints. That’s exactly what I cover in the day class.

We have an onsite meeting this week on Wednesday. We’ll start our meeting in the “real” A&P lab (S-546), where you’ll take the lecture exam. (I’ll put a note on the door of the lab to remind you.) After you finish the exam, you’ll have open lab time with the lab materials across the hall in our regular room (S-219). There will be no new lab material this week. Please remember that there are sample lecture exams available here.

The System Assignment for Skeletal System is due at this week’s onsite meeting.

The first Lab Exam will be held at our next onsite meeting (3/11). The Lab Exam only takes about an hour (you're not timed, though) and it’s the only activity scheduled for that meeting. You should be using the Lab Exam 1 Review Sheet to review. There will be figures, slides, models and bones on the exam. While nothing can completely replace the experience of working with the real bones, there are a couple of online resources that can somewhat help.

• the CD-ROM packaged with your lab manual called Practice Anatomy Lab (PAL)
• A&P Place has a section called Bone Review
• another very popular site for learning the bones is Bone Box

Your System Assignment for Articulations will also be due that day. (It’s very short – it’s the shortest of all the System Assignments.)

That's it for now. Please feel free to send me questions if you're unclear on things. Otherwise, I'll see you on Wednesday.

Please remember that we have an onsite meeting this week, beginning at 3:30 on Wednesday. Consult the Week 6 page to see what we're doing and what's due.

See you on Wednesday!

Can you believe it's already Week 6? We've passed the one-third mark of the semester!

As promised, this week's material is very short. We're covering the appendicular skeleton, but not all of it. I only cover the bones of the appendicular skeleton in class. The remaining appendicular bones are fairly straightforward and we'll tackle them in lab.

We have an onsite meeting this week where we'll work with skeletal system slides and the bones. We'll be doing Lab 5 & Lab 6. These will be the last two labs prior to Lab Exam 1.

Your System Assignment for Tissues is due on Wednesday; no exceptions! Please consult the list of what you need to turn in on page 4 of the System Assignment packet. Believe it or not, the most frequently forgotten item to turn in is the tissue identification key itself! One more thing: in the section of the identification sheets where you put the pathway through the key to your decision, please make sure you have the same questions in the same order as on your key!

We'll have our first Lecture Exam next week. It will cover the material from Weeks 1-6. I realize that that probably seems like a lot of material to you, but compared to what we're heading into, I think that it's pretty basic. In general, people do their best on the first exam. Exams 2 & 3 may have fewer topics on them, but they are covered in much more detail and that's what gives people trouble.

Following the exam, there will be open lab time for you to get ready for the following week's lab exam. Please consult the Lab Exam 1 Review Sheet to prepare. In this course, much more than in Bio I, the lab material really complements and fleshes out the lecture component of the course. I think you'll have a better idea for what I mean when you experience a lab exam firsthand.

One last reminder: the Week 5 Quiz is available until 9:00 a.m. Monday.

That's it for now. I'll see you on Wednesday. As always, send me any questions that you have.

This week is the first of two weeks that deal solely with anatomy. First, you'll learn selected bones of the axial skeleton. Next week will be dedicated to the appendicular skeleton. Next week's material is very brief, so you'll have an opportunity to catch up a bit if you're a little behind.

This information is covered in two formats. You'll learn about a subset of the axial skeleton bones for the lecture portion of the course. These bones, plus others, will then be covered in the lab and will show up on Lab Exam 1. Please refer to this page for the bones (and their associated markings) that are covered on the first lecture exam. Consult the Lab Exam 1 Review Sheet for the bones that are covered on Lab Exam 1. This material is not particularly difficult, but it helps if you come in and look at the bones. There’s a box of bones in the study room off of the lab; we’ll also spend time with them at our next onsite meeting.
 
It's my understanding from last week's meeting that several of you are planning on coming in this week to continue work on the slides. Our room is available from 3:30 to 6:00. I'll have the tissue slides and the unknown slides in there for you.

Just a quick reminder: the Week 4 Quiz closes Monday morning (2/16) at 9:00 a.m. This week's quiz is available until 9:00 a.m. next Monday (2/23).

As always, send me any questions and enjoy the Monday holiday!

Please remember that we have an onsite meeting this week, beginning at 3:30 on Wednesday. Consult the Week 4 page to see what we're doing and what's due.

See you on Wednesday!

This is the first of three weeks we’ll spend on the skeletal system. Here’s the breakdown:

• This week (Week 4): Introduction to Skeletal Tissue
• Next week (Week 5): The Axial Skeleton
• In two weeks (Week 6): The Appendicular Skeleton

This week’s material is somewhat long, but Week 6’s material is quite brief, so you’ve got an easy week approaching.

The Week 4 Quiz is now available and will remain so until next Monday, 2/16. The Week 3 Quiz (Integumentary System) will close tomorrow (2/9) at 9:00 a.m.

We have an onsite meeting this week, during which we’ll do Lab 4. This lab is fairly brief, so there will be some time left over to look at either the tissue slides from last week and/or your unknown slide for the tissue ID project. For those of you who did not have a working tissue ID key last week (as you were expected to), you must have a nearly-perfect one in hand this week for me to look at, so that you do not fall significantly behind.

When you come on Wednesday, make sure you bring your System Assignment for the Integumentary System. I’ll have your Preview & Reviews graded and ready to hand back.

As always, let me know if you have any questions.

Please remember that we have an onsite meeting on Wednesday. This week's meeting we will be working through Lab 3 and Part 2 of the System Assignment for Tissues..

When you come, make sure you bring the following:

1. Your finished System Assignment for Preview and Review.
2. A rough draft of your tissue identification key (see: System Assignment for Tissues).
3. A bound notebook for drawing slides.

See you on Wednesday!

Over on the right, you can see the big green Week 3 icon. Clicking this takes you directly to the Week 3 material. Each week, I'll change it over for that week. I have to do that manually (it doesn't change itself over at midnight), so it may switch to the next week late Saturday night or first thing on Sunday morning.

This week, we’ll start on our first true body system – the integumentary system (skin, hair, nails, etc.). Click on the Week 3 icon on the right to be whisked away to this week’s materials.
 

A couple of reminders:

1. The Week 1 and Week 2 Quizzes must be completed by 9:00 a.m. tomorrow (Monday, 2/2).
2. The Week 3 Quiz is now open. It will close at 9:00 a.m. next Monday (2/9).
3. We have an onsite meeting this week. You should come with three items in hand:
   • Your completed System Assignment for Preview and Review
   • A rough draft of your tissue identification key (Part 1 of the System Assignment for Tissues)
     • Note: This won’t be collected, but Wednesday afternoon will be a waste of your time if you don’t have it.
   • A bound notebook for the histology project

I guess that’s it. Let me know if you have any questions, and I’ll see you on Wednesday @ 3:30.