Thursday, January 16, 2025

Nematoda

view the presentation on Nematoda Get ready for doing a multiple choice open book test on this

Watch the video of the Guinea worm, Dracunculus medinensis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cd9mvyTcB6A

New York Times Interview of The Guinea Worm Slayer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nOuAUfXjzQ

Tuesday, January 14, 2025

Platyhelminthes

Review my slideshow on flatworms and parasites

And take a look at this video of a liver fluke:
This liver fluke parasite was found inside a 20 year old man who complained of abdominal pain

Assignment 20 marks
Summarize the key ideas (see vocab words) in a one page drawing or poem or interview a flatworm.
Watch the Shape of Life Video on flatworms. Platyhelminthes,
the first hunter:
https://www.shapeoflife.org/video/flatworms-first-hunter

Sunday, January 12, 2025

Cnidaria Lesson

Cnidaria

Read the Cnidaria section of these notes
Read the Cnidaria notes on these slides

These notes and slides will be the subject of an open book quiz.

Monday, January 6, 2025

You Animal!

I would like you to watch some intro videos on animalia and then do the assignments.

Your notes introducing you to Animalia are here. Please watch these introductory videos which will try to explain a few of the concepts. I still need to make the one on the primary germ layers though.
See the assignment below:

Assignment 1: Answer these questions and submit your answers. Add some creativity to your answers.

EVALUATION
12-15 points: assignment is brilliant, it stands out, it summarizes the main points in a creative format, it is inked and in colour

10-12 assignment is excellent and includes all the main points. inked and in colour

5-10assignnent is complete it may not be inked or in colour
1-4 this is incomplete

Sunday, January 5, 2025

PORIFERA: SPONGES

Porifera

Watch this intro video on how sponges filter feed with their collar cells

Here are your Notes on sponges
Sponges slide show

ASSIGNMENT : Create at least three pages out of the following material. Each page will be evaluated for 5 points for a total of 15 points. You may use more pages if you want for each section. Please upload a picture (jpeg) or pdf of your work on microsoft teams

PAGE 1.
Draw a one page cartoon or write a rhyming poem/rap song on the Sponges slide show.

PAGE 2
Sponges are the earliest animals:
Watch this video and give me a cartoon or poem about the main points of this Shape of Life video
https://www.shapeoflife.org/video/sponges-origins

PAGE 3
IF YOU PUT A SPONGE THROUGH A BLENDER AND TRY TO MAKE BOBA OUT OF IT...
the sponge will survive! Sponges are capable of reassembling themselves. Watch this cool video to observe this phenomenon and summarize the main points in a cartoon or a poem
https://www.shapeoflife.org/video/sponges-time-lapse-sponge-cells-recombining

Evaluation for the cartoon
5. your cartoon stands out from all the rest. it is well thought out and work has been put into it. It is in ink or colour. it includes all the major points.
4 your cartoon is excellent and it includes all the major points
3 your cartoon is quite good. it may be missing a few details but it is well done
0-2. your cartoon is a good start but it is incomplete

Evaluation for the rap or rhyming poem
5. your writing includes all the major details of the content. it has good rhythm and it is very clever
4. your writing is excellent and includes all the correct details. it rhymes
3. your content is really good, it is missing a few details but still very entertaining
0-2. your writing is incomplete.

Wednesday, December 11, 2024

Looking at Histology slides

We have some human lymph node slides. Examine these under the microscope and make a drawing under low power and high power. Label the parts of the lymph node as described in this excellent website

https://histologyblog.com/2012/04/30/histoquarterly-lymph-node/\

These are numbers 16, 19 in the slide A box

Examine Human blood smear and identify the RBC and WBC , try to identify WBC's using the

Biology Eleven

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