camosun bog field studies

On April 29th, we will visit Camosun Bog during class time:  our meeting location is:

the corner of 19th and Camosun street: do not meet at the other entrance.

period 1 will be 8:30 to 9:30
period 2 will be 10:30 to 11:30

see

camosunblog.blogspot.com

and click on "how to get to camosun bog".  Closest bus is #25UBC to get there.
Students are responsible for meeting there by arranging their own transportation.  Parents and guardians are very welcome to come on this interpretive walk.

we will have an intro to camosun bog.  subsequent classes will take place there.  we plan to be visiting this bog at least once a week in May.

Welcome back!

Kingdom Plantae notes here
you will get a quiz next period on the sexual reproduction of land plants, the definition of plants, the three things that happen to glucose and trends in plant evolution on land. mainly page one.

Events:

Volunteer events for April.  For Earth Month:

Camosun Bog Bin Day:  PW always participates!
Plan-It Earth: organized by a committee of students from different VSB schools
Earth Day Parade: organized by VSB students

sign up for one of these!

animalia review

go to the study sheets here and do the questions for arthropoda and echinodermata.

Molluska lab and notes

Download molluska notes here.

In our squid dissection

Each group gets one squid and one paper plate.  You will also get a diagram of a male squid and another diagram of a female.

1. Make a clean and organized dissection, labeling the parts
2. Correctly identify your squid as male or female.  Make notes on the correct diagram, writing observations of the parts.  Put your name and the names of your group members on this diagram.
3. correctly identify 3 internal parts per group member
4. Remove the "pen".  what part of the mollusk is this? 
5. remove the beak.  
6. rub the skin to stimulate the chromatopores and observe the squid change colour

nematoda and platyhelminthes presentations and lab

Class notes here.

Lab activity:

Draw two preserved specimens:  platyhelminthes and nematoda

draw the following prepared slides. identify the phylum, the species (common name is fine for this), and brief notes on its life history:

liverfluke
pinworms
planaria
tapeworm
hookworm

animalia assignment

Animalia assignment:

1. Draw the specimen
2. identify the phylum
3. What are the characteristics of this phylum, in one paragraph and of this oranism in another paragraph?
4. There are three evolutionary trends. Identify the trends exhibited by this organism
5. Put all specimens in evolutionary order.

animalia notes

intro to kingdom animalia
intro to cnidaria and porifera

get to know these for a short quiz on thursday on animalia.