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Web Resources

BEFORE CLASS:  BACKGROUND AND PREPARATION

1. Assure you have Anatomy and Physiology prerequisites
2. Purchase and get oriented to text and related materials
3. Register for course and locate meeting places for lecture and lab
4. Get colored pencils or pens for note-taking
5. Preview text chapters, lab manual, Powerpoint presentations, web resources
6. Print out handouts for this section of course

• Launch semester with view of A and P as learning a new language as part of rite of passage in to BioMedical Sciences.

• Reading from Complications [link]
• Hate, Love about A and P; Fear and Aspirations for group [link]  [Tegrity video of semester intro]
• Review crucial parts of "Getting Ready for A and P" [link--important topics] [link--my A andP]
• Read syllabus for complete understanding.  Contact instructor with any uncertainties [Tegrity video of syllabus and website logistics]

• Introductory Self Portrait Name Tags

• Learn basic vocabulary for orienteering around a human body

• Basic Anatomical Terminology:  Planes and Directions [link] [note-taking Word download] [Interactive Planes and Directions]

• Establish Basic Vertebrate Body Plan as Tube within A Tube

• From a blue and yellow line to a tube within a tube [embryo board drawings done in class--link]  [Tegrity video]

• Basic Body Plan presentation [PPT download]  [Tegrity video of PPT]    [Fetal Development Animation--needs Quicktime to view]

• Read about homeobox genes and segmentation as fundamental or ancestral for vertebrates and many other animal groups [link]

• Origami Embryos [Word download] 

• Develop a safe and respectful laboratory environment

• Lab Ethos, Cadaver Respect [link]

• Safety Procedures Training

• See details of wall of outer tube of body and begin viewing cadaver and dissecting fetal pig

• Body Wall Presentation [PPT download]   [Tegrity video of PPT]

• Dissection of fetal pig and viewing cadaver to see basic "tube within a tube" body construction and details of body wall.  Wish List (what I wish you would know!) [Word download]

• Start course again with view of Anatomy and Physiology in the evolutionary hierarchy of living systems

• Anatomy and Physiology in the Hierarchy of Life presentation [PPT download]  [Tegrity video of PPT]

1. Launch Semester with Introduction to Class, Philosophy--incorporate students into class ethos
2. Establish Basic Vertebrate Body Plan as fundamental structural organization of the human body
3. Learn and use basic anatomical terminology for directions and planes of the body.  Apply to basic vertebrate body plan.
4. See basic body construction (tube within a tube) and linings of body cavity in fetal pig and cadaver.  Identify major organs and landmarks.
5. Analyze how Anatomy and Physiology fits into the hierarchical organization of living systems. Make clear elements of that hierarchy that students should already have learned in prerequisite courses and now be very familiar with.
6. Examine special role of diffusion in all biological functions.  Also review feedback systems in physiology.

WEB RESOURCES

Basic Body Plan, Embryology

List of embryology websites

Great embryo images and animations

Embryo-Fetal Growth Animation

Nice images of fetuses during trimesters of pregnancy

Comprehensive mouse embryo map

Interactive Planes and Directions

Homeobox genes and the vertebrate body plan (link)

Diffusion, Cells