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	- Microscope parts & functions - Choanoflagellate form & feeding - Sponge form & feeding
Week 3	Jan. 30	Cnidaria & Ctenophora DISSECTION	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 DISSECTION (Garstang's poem: How the gastropod got it's twist)	study images, key** movies	- Filibranch form & feeding - Eulamellibranch form & feeding
Week 7	Mar. 6	Mollusca II- Cephalopoda, molluscan diversity DISSECTION (download shell coiling program for Macintosh)	study images, key** movies	- Squid form & locomotion
Week 8	Mar. 13	Annelida & relatives (Echiura, Pogonophora, Sipuncula) QUIZ, DISSECTION (Rhyming key to polychaete families)	study images, key**	- Polychaete form & locomotion - Earthworm form & locomotion
Week 9	Mar. 20	Arthropoda: Crustacea MARKED DISSECTION	study images, key**	- Decapod claw form & function - Virtual Copepod (UCSD)
Week 10	Mar. 27	Arthropod diversity	study images, key**
Week 11	Apr. 3	Deuterostomia: Echinoderms, Lophophorates, Hemichordates MARKED DISSECTION Annotated Bibliographies due at start of lab.	study images, key** movies	- Sea urchin form & feeding - Virtual Urchin (Stanford Univ.) - Sea squirt form & feeding
Week 12	Apr. 10	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!).