This somewhat lengthy blog post does a great job describing how bones, skin, hair, and joints were used to identify a crime victim in France a hundred or so years ago. You’ll find lots of the bones discussed in class covered here.

The System Assignment for the Integumentary System will become unavailable for credit at 10:00 p.m. Mon night. Afterwards, it will be available for practice purposes only.

System Assignments can be found in MasteringA&P.

The System Assignment for Tissues will become unavailable for credit at 10:00 p.m. Mon night. Afterwards, it will be available for practice purposes only.

System Assignments can be found in MasteringA&P.

The System Assignment for Preview and Review will become unavailable for credit at 10:00 p.m. Wed night. Afterwards, it will be available for practice purposes only.

System Assignments can be found in MasteringA&P.

On Monday, we’ll be starting our first true body system—the integumentary system (skin, hairs, nails, etc.). As I told you in class on Friday, my first personal checkpoint of the semester is to finish the integumentary system by the end of Week 3. Usually, it takes me about 2.5 lectures to get through it, so we should be in good shape.

Upcoming due dates:

Wednesday, 10 pm – System Assignment for Preview and Review (MasteringA&P)

Friday, lab – Rough draft of your tissue ID key. One copy per lab group is fine. It won’t be collected, but I will look it over and give you comments. Based on Friday’s lab, many of you seem to be in good shape.

Next Monday (9/27), 10 pm – System Assignment for Tissues (MasteringA&P). This is very short. If you’re having trouble with the tissue ID key, I recommend you work on the System Assignment. I designed it to help you with the key.

That’s it. I’ll see you on Monday.

Here are some pictures of the insect dichotomous key to give you an idea for how your tissue ID key should look. I am not blessed with a photographer’s eye, so please excuse the mediocre pictures!

To see the whole key in its glory, visit it outside of S-216 in the Science building. It’s almost across the hall from our lab, just down the hall a little bit.

This week, I expect to finish Preview and Review in class on Wednesday and to jump right into Tissues. We’ll do most of the work on tissues in lab; the lecture will focus on what you need to know in order to make sense of the lab. Whatever lecture material I don’t finish by the end of Friday’s lecture will be covered at the beginning of lab. Then, we’ll jump into Lab 2.

Plan on the System Assignment for Preview and Review being due next Wednesday. I usually will give you one week from the time we finish a topic to when its System Assignment is due. All System Assignments will close for credit at 10:00 p.m. on the date given in class. They will remain available for practice until the end of the semester. Since I expect to finish Preview and Review in class this Wednesday (9/15), I expect that the System Assignment will be due next Wednesday (9/22). Things may change, but that’s how I usually roll.

Send along any questions, and I’ll see you in class.

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