Date

Day

Lecture Topic

Textbook Chapter

Laboratory

8/20

T

Introduction
Classification

4
(pages 87-94)

8/22

R

Evolution
Dobzhansky article
protists

1

Light Microscopy
Termite flagellates
Live protozoans (lab sheet on Canvas)

8/27

T

5

8/29

R

Live protozoans (continued)
Dr. Tatiana (Ch 1)

9/5

R

No Class today

No lab

9/10

T

6

9/12

R

Sponges
Dr. Tatiana (Ch 2 & 3)
Live Hydra
Student Talks

9/17

T

Lecture Exam 1
Practice Exam

9/19

R

Bring clothes for sampling in Cherry Creek
Please read before class: Aquatic Insects
Dr. Tatiana (Ch 4)
Student Talks

9/24

T

Coral Reefs
Ctenophora

9/26

R

Platyhelminthes

Cnidarians
Live Planaria
(Bring dissection kit and hardboiled egg to class)
Dr. Tatiana (Ch 5)
Student Talks

10/1

T

Platyhelminthes

10/3

R

Embryology
Rotifera

10/8

T

Mollusca

 10

10/10

R

Mollusca

Molluscs
Squid dissection (Bring dissection kit to class)
Molluscs
Student talks

10/15

T

Mollusca

Molluscs (cont)
Dr. Tatiana (Ch 7)
Student talks

10/29

T

Nematoda

12

10/31

R

Nematoda

Nematodes
Ascaris dissection
(bring dissection kit)
Live vinegar eels
Dr. Tatiana (Ch 9)
Student talks

11/5

T

Nematoda
*Election Day

11/7

R

No lecture
Meet at the Butterfly Pavilion
TBA

Lecture and lab at the Butterfly Pavilion

11/12

T

11/14

R

Arthropoda

Arthropods
Dr. Tatiana (Ch 10)
Student talks

11/19

T

Arthropoda
Echinodermata

11/21

R

Lecture Exam 3
Practice Exam

Echinoderms
Dr. Tatiana (Ch 11)
Student talks
Review for final

12/3

T

Echinodermata

12/5

R

Field Trip to the Aquarium
(meet at 9:30 at the Ballroom entrance)

14

week of
12/10

TBA