Welcome to Anatomy and Physiology! We will explore all aspects of the human body beginning with the microscopic. We will take a look at the chemistry of life and cells, and then move on to those parts of the body that involve covering, support, and movement. After exploring the integumentary, muscular, and skeletal systems, the next will involve regulation in the body through the nervous and the endocrine systems. Next semester we will take a look at all the systems that contribute to maintenance of the body including the cardiovascular, lymphatic, respiratory, urinary, digestive, and immune systems. And finally we will explore the reproductive system and heredity. Throughout these units we will see God’s amazing design of how structure serves function to make the human body the incredible organism that it is. We will learn in a variety of ways, including labs, group work, writing, and more.

August 13 (Week 1)

We started off Anatomy this week by receiving our textbooks and taking a look at expectations, procedures, and safety guidelines for class. We received notes and handouts to keep in binders that will guide our unit. We found out a bit about what we already know about Anatomy and started to investigate a mystery disease. In doing so, we reviewed some science terms like qualitative and quantitative data and introduced some ideas that we will look at in Chapter 1 like levels of organization and regions of the body. We talked about how to do our homework reading and how to rank our own understanding.  I am looking forward to Week 2 as we will continue to investigate our mystery disease and use some of the terminology from Chapter 1 for our frog dissection! See the link below to see the slides that guided our class. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1lbZKaqkWeXpJb2wlVrW3RfFpSJZlifcwA1XqkSzV7uk/edit?usp=sharing

August 20 (Week 2)

Today in anatomy we filled out some information on possible diseases that could be responsible for the mystery illness we are investigating. We touched on a few concepts that related the illness to the chemistry of life, which is the theme of Chapter 2. We took notes on some of the concepts in chapter 1, and then completed our frog dissection! During the dissection, we paid attention to those parts of the frog that are similar to humans and tried to use some of the terminology we learned in Chapter 1 like, “ventral, dorsal, medial, distal, sagittal, transverse”, etc. Here are the slides that guided our class: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1rr6H7asibPe_cqPDJ9UD1MyyVswWdqEJ9Toe-xINDaA/edit?usp=sharing