David Schwartz talks about people’s inability to truly comprehend large numbers. Listen to this NPR podcast to try and wrap your head around a trillion. NPR Trillion

Test on Monday, 4/24/08 on chapters 4 & 5.

Answer chapter 4 review: UC #1,3,5
Answer chapter 5 review: RI #4; UC 7,8; Synthesis 1

Test on chapter 8: Joints - Friday, 4/18/08

Written test on bones – Tuesday, 4/22/08

Practical test on bones – starts Tuesday, 4/22/08 (until Monday, 4/28/08). You must see me to sign up for a time. The time slots are immediately before or after school.  During the practical, you will have 4 minutes to build a leg/ankle/foot or an arm/wrist/hand and answer several questions.

Go to the following University of Delaware site: http://www.udel.edu/biology/ketcham/microscope/

View the ‘Instructional Video‘ and use the ‘Virtual Microscope‘. Be sure to know how to use each part of the microscope and know each part’s function.

Then go to http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/anatomy/introduction.html and complete the ‘Microscope Assembly‘ activity about half-way down the page.

Then go to http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/virtual/virtual.html and look at the ‘Scanning Electron Microscopy‘ activity. Feel free to look at the others too – they are pretty cool.

Read the following pages in chapter 8:

234-245; 253-257
Closer Look (256)
Related Clinical Terms

Make sure you know the directional terms (i.e. flexion/extension, abduction etc….)

Answer the following review questions on pg. 259: 3-7, 10, 12, 13, 17;   Clinical Application  1-3

Read chapter 3 and write down key ideas and statistics etc… for our discussions.

Due: Friday, 4/11/08

We will be reading one chapter per week so it is your job to remember from now on.