Unit 11: Animal Diversity and Function

IF YOU MISS A CLASS OR LAB due to illness or quarantine, you need to make up the work by the Monday following your allowed return. If you do not, you will not get credit. There is NO late work accepted for this class. Plan accordingly. ​

Textbook: Chapter 32: Animal Diversity

Textbook: Chapter 33: Introduction of Invertebrates

Textbook: Chapter 34: Evolution of Vertebrates

Textbook: Chapter 48: Neurons, Synapses, Signaling

Textbook: Chapter 49: Nervous Systems

Date	Activities	Homework/Readings:
Wednesday 29 April	Video: Rise of the Vertebrates
Thursday 30 April	Read and Watch: Animal Diversity Notes (Animal Diversity Notes PDF) Animal Diversity Notes Guide Video: Animal Diversity Notes
Friday 1 May	Finish Animal Diversity Notes	Unit 11: Assignment 1: Animal Diversity Part 1 Unit 11: Assignment 2: Animal Diversity Part 2
Monday 4 May	​Video: Challenges of Life
Tuesday 5 May	​ ​Video: Rise of the Vertebrates Mammals
Wednesday 6 May	​Creating Animal Diversity Slideshow
Thursday 7 May	Creating Animal Diversity Slideshow	​
Monday 11 May	Video: Nervous System Crash Course
Tuesday 12 May	Creating Animal Diversity Slideshow
Wednesday 13 May	Animal Tissues Organs Systems Notes ​(Animal Tissues and Organs Notes PDF) Animal Tissues Organ Systems Notes Guide Video: Animal Tissues Organs Systems	Unit 11: Quiz 1: Animal Diversity Unit 11: Assignment 3: Animal Tissues Organs System ​
Thursday 14 May	Video: Pushing the Limits: Sight	​
Friday 15 May	​Pick a Sense Activity​
Monday 18 May	Video: Nervous System Crash Course
Tuesday 19 May	Unit 11: Quiz 2: Animal Tissues Organs Systems Pick a Sense Activity Presentations
Wednesday 20 May	Video: Pushing the Limits: Sensation  ​Review for Last Exam	Last Years Free Response Questions Focus Topics: ​Evolution of and characteristics of an Animal: Embryonic Germ layers Protostome vs deuterosome Characteristics of Invertebrate groups (sponges, cnidarians, flatworms, roundworms, mollusks, annelids, arthropods, echinoderms) Characteristics of Vertebrate groups (fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals) Organ systems are interconnected Neuron Structure, Classes, and Arrangement Action Potentials Synapses Central Nervous System vs Peripheral Nervous System
Thursday 21 May	Exam: Animal Diversity and Function	Spreadsheet to calculate your final grades:
Friday 22 May	Moving Day for Classroom	Eye Dissection Handout Review of Parts of the Eye
Monday 25 May	Video: Nervous System Crash Course
Tuesday 26 May	N2 Ice Cream
Wednesday 27 May	Eye Dissection Handout Review of Parts of the Eye
	Structure of a Neuron Handout ​​Review for Final Exam	Dissections: Finish Missing Labs/Schoology ​Complete and Submit to Instructor on Schoology: Unit 11: Assignment 4: Nervous System Part 1 Unit 11: Assignment 5: Nervous System Part 2
	Nervous System Notes (Nervous System Notes PDF) ​Nervous System Notes Guide ​Video: Nervous System	Finish Nervous System Notes

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