LAB	TOPIC	FOR REVIEW	ANIMATIONS*
Week 1	Introduction to labs, course resources, overview of invertebrate diversity
Week 2	Microscopy, protists, Porifera	study images, key** movies	- Microscope parts & functions - Choanoflagellate form & feeding - Sponge form & feeding
Week 3	Cnidaria & Ctenophora DISSECTION	study images, key** movies	- Hydrozoan life cycle - Scyphozoan life cycle
Week 4	Xenacoelomorpha, Platyhelminthes & Nemertea QUIZ AT START	study images, key** movies	- Excretory systems
Week 5	Nematoda and other pseudocoelomate taxa MARKED DISSECTION	study images, key** movies
	Reading Week
Week 6	Mollusca DISSECTION (Garstang's poem: How the gastropod got it's twist)	study images, key** movies	- Filibranch form & feeding - Eulamellibranch form & feeding
Week 7	Mollusca (cont.) DISSECTION	study images, key** movies	- Squid form & locomotion
Week 8	Annelida and lophophorate taxa QUIZ AT START (Rhyming key to polychaete families)	study images, key**	- Polychaete form & locomotion - Earthworm form & locomotion
Week 9	Onychophora, Tardigrada & Arthropoda MARKED DISSECTION	study images, key**	- Decapod claw form & function - Virtual Copepod (UCSD)
Week 10	Arthropod (cont.)	study images, key**
Week 11	Echinodermata and other deuterostomes MARKED DISSECTION	study images, key** movies	- Sea urchin form & feeding - Virtual Urchin (Stanford Univ.) - Sea squirt form & feeding
Week 12	LABORATORY FINAL EXAM	sample lab exams Diversity Quiz

* Most of these animations were written and directed by Rich Palmer, and programmed by Heather Kroening. Heather wrote, directed and programmed the hydrozoan & scyphozoan life cycles. To view the animations properly you must have the most recent version of the Flash browser plugin installed (download plugin). For other teaching animations, visit the Biological Sciences multimedia page.

** To use the key to the study images most effectively, open a second window in your browser and to view the key and the study image at the same time (assuming your monitor is large enough!).