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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

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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
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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
Nervous System Notes
(Nervous System Notes PDF)
​Nervous System Notes Guide

​Video: Nervous System
Complete and Submit to Instructor on Schoology:
Unit 11: Assignment 4: Nervous System Part 1
Unit 11: Assignment 5: Nervous System Part 2

Wednesday 20 May
Pick a Sense Activity Presentations
 
Thursday 21 May
​Review for Final Exam
Last Years Free Response Questions
Focus Topics:
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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

Friday 22 May
Exam: Animal Diversity and Function
Spreadsheet to calculate your final grades:
 
 
 
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
Finish Nervous System Notes
Thursday 28 May
Structure of a Neuron Handout
Dissections:
Finish Missing Labs/Schoology
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