High School Anatomy and Physiology Semester Lab and Lecture Class

This class is meant to cover many concepts of High School Anatomy and Physiology.  Each week we will have two classes.  One class will be the lecture class and the second lesson will be the lab class.  Labs will be pretty reasonable on cost and hopefully most items are relatively easy to find or already around the house.  The course will last for 9 weeks,  and we will cover 8 main body systems including; integumentary, skeletal, muscular, circulatory. digestive, nervous, respiratory, and the excretory system. 

Concepts per week: (supplies and learning goals listed in other sections per week)

Week 1-The Human Body
Lecture 1
Introduction to the body systems.  In this lesson we will learn about the different cells and tissues of the body, as well as various systems of the body, essentials to life, directional terms, planes of the body and common prefixes/suffixes that are used in the scientific field.  
In this class we will have notes via powerpoint,  vocabulary card practice, and interactive activities 

Lab 1- Students will be asked to model various directional terms and movements of the body,  and finally students will be able to play a virtual exploratory lab with a pickle dissection 

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Week 2-Integumentary System 
Lecture 2 -  Students will learn about the dermis, hypodermic, and dermal layers of the skin,  parts of the hair, and parts of the nails.  Students will learn about the nerves, glands, and receptors in the skin.  Finally,  they will learn the special functions of the skin and methods used to maintain homeostasis. 

Lab 2- Students will test their mechanoreceptors and thermoreceptors of their skin.  Additionally, students will practice interactive labeling of the layers of the skin. We will explore the microscope views of various tissues and cells. Finally, students will explore their fingerprints using a balloon and washable marker,  explore hair structure, nail structure and sweat gland distribution.  
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Week 3-  The Skeletal System 
Lecture 3- The skeletal system will be explored in two categories, Axial and Appendicular,  we will practice understanding the structure, development, and distribution of bones in the body.  We will practice naming and locating the bones.

Lab 3-  This class will be a virtual lab where students will practice naming the bones, and then they can conduct the optional hands-on lab to test the strength of the bone using paper and books.  
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Week 4- Muscular System
Lecture 4-  Students will learn the essential sliding filament movement models and structures of the three muscle types.  We will then learn how to name muscles,  and the body movements the muscles can make.  

Lab 4- muscle fatigue lab will be testing their strength and reflexes.  Students will stand in a door frame,  hold a book, do seated movements with their eyes closed,  and use cold water to test their muscle speed and fatigue.  Then students will practice interactive labeling and activities for muscle names and movements.
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Week 5- The Circulatory System
Lecture 5-  students will learn the anatomy and physiology of the heart, blood, blood vessels, veins, arteries and cardiac muscle. 

Lab 5-  Students will trace the blood flow throughout the body interactive activity.  They will also play an interactive activity to label the veins, arteries, blood vessels,  heart, atrium, ventricles, valves and more.  Finally,  students will conduct a heart rate exercise lab.  
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Week 6- The Respiratory System
Lecture 6-  Students will learn about the nasal cavity, sinuses, mouth, pharynx, larynx, lungs, bronchi, alveoli, and gas exchange.  We will analyze the structure and functions of the lungs.

Lab 6-  Students will do a breathing rate exercise lab, counting breath rate seats, standing, after walking and moving quickly.  Students will use a balloon to help model expansion and exhalation of the lungs.  Students will then do interactive activities to label the lungs, bronchi, larynx, epiglottis, and more.  
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Week 7- The Digestive System 
Lecture 7- Go over all of the organs involved in the digestive system and identify the function of each.  Name the teeth, mouth, esophagus, liver, stomach, gallbladder, small intestine, colon, rectum and anus.  Discuss diseases and disorders that the digestive system can experience. 

Lab 7-  Digestion in a bag lab. A large zip ziploc bag, water, food coloring, panty hose, large bowl, and a spoon.
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Week 8- The Excretory System 
Lecture 8- We will learn the structure and functions of the following organs: 
 kidneys (primary excretory organ), ureters, bladder, and urethra. We will discuss the functions of the excretory system including: remove nitrogenous waste product of protein metabolism and other harmful substances, eliminates them in the form of ammonia, uric acid or urea, eliminates controlled amounts of water and salts to maintain the internal environment, is to maintain homeostasis of blood (excrete wastes, absorb nutrients, maintain electrolytes, pH balance)

Lab 8- virtual urinalysis lab,  practice games, and labeling activity


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Week 9- The Nervous System 
Lecture 9 in this lesson students will learn the location, structure and function of the parts of the brain. Name the four lobes- Frontal Lobe, Occipital Lobe, Parietal Lobe, Temporal Lobe.
• Name the right and left side of the brain.
•Identify the Cerebral Cortex, Cerebellum, Hypothalamus, Limbic System, BrainStem and Basal Ganglia

Lab 9- This is a virtual lab that allows students to explore a 3d model of the brain,  labeling games and activities to practice the structure and functions.  The optional activity is constructing a paper brain helmet to color and label.  We will also play some brain game teasers.