5/13/2010
Chapter 11: Online Blood Activity.
Please go to the following website to begin:
http://www.getbodysmart.com/ap/circulatorysystem/blood/menu/menu.html
As you go through the tutorial (click on the blue links to see each step) answer these questions:
1. How many red blood cells are found in a small drop of a man’s blood?
2. What is the lifespan of a red blood cell?
3. Why does cell lysis NOT take place during the RBC count procedure?
4. Why is stain needed to do a WBC differential count?
5. What is the role of WBC’s in the body?
6. What are the two groupings of WBC’s, and how are they identified?
7. What is the role of platelets in the blood?
8. What percent of the plasma is water?
9. Identify some things carried in plasma.
10. How many liters of blood are found in the human body?
11. What is erythroblastosis fetalis?
Click on the Virtual Hematocrit Activity.
http://www.horton.ednet.ns.ca/staff/jfuller/selig/LABS/Blood_lab/hemato/hem/hematomain.htm
1. What are the percentages of the normal donor?
2. How does the normal hematocrit differ from that of someone with leukemia? Why is this?
3. What happens at a high altitude? Why would this be beneficial to an athlete in an aerobic sport?
4. Why is the color of the blood lighter red to orange for someone with anemia?
Click on the Virtual Blood Typing Exercise
http://www.horton.ednet.ns.ca/staff/jfuller/selig/LABS/Blood_lab/blood_typing.htm
and answer the following questions.
1. Identify the blood types of the four unknown samples.
2. Why is blood type O considered a universal donor?
3. Why is blood type AB considered a universal receiver?
Extension: If you have time left in class, please go to the following website:
http://nobelprize.org/educational_games/medicine/landsteiner/
Click on “how to play” and read through the instructions.
Go back, and click on “play the blood typing game.”What were the results of your game?
4/22/2010
Part 1
1) Using the information from class, your textbook, and the following website
http://arbl.cvmbs.colostate.edu/hbooks/pathphys/endocrine/basics/index.html
answer the questions on this quiz.
2) Email the results of this quiz to me at mmitchell@artsacad.net
Part 2
1) On the ‘Essential Study Partner’ site, click on ‘Topics’ > ‘Integration and Coordination’> ‘The Endocrine System”
2) Review the information and do the matching exercises
3) Write the answers to the 15 questions of the quiz in the following table
| 1) | 4) | 7) | 10) | 13) | 17) |
| 2) | 5) | 8) | 11) | 14) | 18) |
| 3) | 6) | 9) | 12) | 15) | 19) |
4/1/2010
Chapter 8b Lab activity
1) Use the website from the 8a activity and answer the “Additional Activities” and “Quiz” quesions for the CNS.
3/19/2010
Chapter 8a Lab Activity
1) Go to http://www.mhhe.com/biosci/esp/2002_general/Esp/default.htm
2) Click where it says: “Click here to choose a unit.”
3) Click on: “Integration and Coordination”
4) You will be viewing the subheadings entitled: “Nervous Tissue” on Wednesday and “PNS” on Thursday.
5) Review the material presented under each subheading.
6) Answer the “Additional Activities” questions and the “Quiz Questions” in your Anatomy Notebook.
- For the Nervous Tissue questions, only answer the first 7 questions under “Additional Activities” You do NOT have to do the matching.
- For the PNS questions, only answer the first 8 questions under “Additional Activities” You do NOT have to do the matching.
2/11/2010
Ch 7 A and P lab
These sites have cool animations and opportunities to clarify any misconceptions.
Your assignment for this chapter’s lab is to write a brief review (2 – 3 paragraphs) about your favorite website from the list below.
Tell me what you liked, what you didn’t like, and what you think that you still need to learn more about.
This assignment should be completed in your Anatomy notebook.
1) http://entochem.tamu.edu/MuscleStrucContractswf/index.html
2) http://www.getbodysmart.com/ap/muscletissue/menu/animation.html
3) http://www.biologycorner.com/anatomy/muscles/notes_muscles.html
12/8/2009
Chapter 5 Lab
http://www.mhhe.com/biosci/esp/2002_general/Esp/default.htm
1) Go to the website listed above.
2) Click the box that says ‘Click here to choose a unit’
3) Click the box that says ‘support and movement’
4) Complete the activities and the quiz (write the questions and answers in your notebook) for the integumentary system
11/10/2009
Chapter 4 Lab
http://www.harford.edu/faculty/WRappazzo/a_oldsite/tissueslab.html
Complete the lab according to the instructions. However, on the final page (the quiz) you cannot submit your answers via the WEBCT, so write your answers (in complete sentences) on a sheet of looseleaf paper.
