|
Date |
Day |
Lecture Topic |
Textbook
Chapter |
Laboratory |
8/18 |
T |
Introduction
Classification
|
4
(pages 87-94)
|
|
8/20 |
R |
Evolution
Dobzhansky article
protists
|
1
|
Light Microscopy
Termite flagellates
|
8/25 |
T |
protozoa
flagellates
|
5 |
|
8/27 |
R |
protozoa
amoebas
apicomplexans
|
|
Live protozoans
|
9/1 |
T |
protozoa
ciliates
|
6
|
|
9/3 |
R |
|
|
Live protozoans (cont)
Sponges
|
| 9/8 |
|
Porifera |
|
|
| 9/10 |
|
No Class |
|
No Lab |
9/15 |
T |
Lecture Exam 1
Practice
Exam |
|
|
9/17 |
R |
Cnidaria
|
7
|
Live Hydra
Cnidarians
Student Talks |
9/22 |
T |
Coral Reefs
|
|
|
9/24 |
R |
Ctenophora
Platyhelminthes
|
8
|
Planaria (Bring hardboiled egg to class)
Flatworms
Student Talks
|
9/29 |
T |
Platyhelminthes
|
|
|
10/1 |
R |
Platyhelminthes
Rotifers
|
|
Bring clothes for sampling in Cherry Creek
Please read before class: Aquatic Insect Biodiversity
|
10/6 |
T |
|
3 (pages 73-78)
10
|
|
>
|
| 10/8 |
R |
Mollusca
|
|
Molluscs
Live rotifers
Squid dissection model
Student talks |
|
10/13 |
T |
Mollusca
|
|
|
10/15 |
R |
|
|
Lecture and lab at the Butterfly Pavilion
(Meet at 10:00 AM)
|
| 10/20 |
T |
Lecture Exam 2
Practice
Exam |
|
|
| 10/22 |
R |
Annelida |
11 |
Molluscs
Dr. Tatiana (Ch 7)
Student talks |
| 10/27 |
T |
Annelida
Bryozoa
|
|
|
10/29 |
R |
Nematoda |
12 |
Annelids
Student talks |
11/3 |
T |
Nematoda
|
|
|
11/5 |
R |
Nematoda
|
|
Nematodes
Ascaris dissection
(bring dissection kit)
|
| 11/10 |
T |
Arthropoda |
13 |
|
11/12 |
R |
Arthropoda
|
|
Live vinegar eels
Student talks
|
11/17 |
T |
Arthropoda |
|
|
11/19 |
R |
|
|
Field
Trip to the Aquarium
(meet at the Ballroom entrance)
|
| 11/23-27 |
|
Happy Thanksgiving |
|
 |
12/1 |
T |
|
14 |
Echinoderms
Student talks
|
12/3 |
R |
Final Exam
|
|
|