LAB	DATE	TOPIC	FOR REVIEW	ANIMATIONS*
Week 1	Jan. 16	Overview of invertebrate diversity
Week 2	Jan. 23	Microscopy, Protozoa, Porifera	study images, key** movies	Choanoflagellate form & feeding Sponge form & feeding
Week 3	Jan. 30	Cnidaria & Ctenophora	study images, key** movies	Hydrozoan life cycle Scyphozoan life cycle
Week 4	Feb. 6	Platyhelminthes QUIZ	study images, key** movies	Excretory systems
Week 5	Feb. 13	Aschelminthes (Nematoda & relatives) MARKED DISSECTION	study images, key** movies
	Feb. 20	Reading Week
Week 6	Feb. 27	Mollusca I- Gastropoda, Bivalvia (Garstang's poem: How the gastropod got it's twist)	study images, key** movies	Filibranch form & feeding Eulamellibranch form & feeding
Week 7	Mar. 5	Mollusca II- Cephalopoda, molluscan diversity (download shell coiling program for Macintosh)	study images, key** movies	Squid form & locomotion
Week 8	Mar. 12	Annelida & relatives, QUIZ (Rhyming key to polychaete families)	study images, key**	Polychaete form & locomotion Earthworm form & locomotion
Week 9	Mar. 19	Arthropoda: Crustacea MARKED DISSECTION	study images, key**	Decapod claw form & function Virtual Copepod Page
Week 10	Mar. 26	Arthropod diversity	study images, key**
Week 11	Apr. 2	Deuterostomia: Echinoderms, Lophophorates, Hemichordates MARKED DISSECTION Annotated Bibliographies due at start of lab.	study images, key**	Sea urchin form & feeding Sea squirt form & feeding
Week 12	Apr. 9	LAB 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!).