HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY
For Wed HW. Briefly summarize the article on Addition from Scientific American: The Addicted Brain (Don’t get messed up by the details on CREB and FosB. The important part is the basic notion of the reward pathway and how behaviors impact it into tolerance and sensitization.)
For Mon HW. Briefly summarize the article on Nicotine from Scientific American. You’re reading this article to help illustrate receptor subtypes.
Some folks have expressed an interest in where I'm (Dave) is going. This is a link to the Tourism site for the Federated States of Micronesia. There are links off this page to the islands I'll be working on: Chuuk and Pohnpei.
Human Bio Lab folks! Here is the article you need to read and respond to. You need to read the article and then write a short paper (I mean short- a page or 2 - and it won't be graded for composition - though that doesn't mean you shouldn't take a degree of pride in it) that addresses these two things 1) relate it to what we learned in lab, and 2) comment on the experiments - how the design allowed them to come to their conclusions.
Chemistry4Kids is just what it sounds like! It's pretty good.
GetBodySmart is a website that has tutorials and quiz packages. Some of the stuff may help you in phys....
Immunology Bookcase is a website that reviews the components of the immune system
University of Minnesota Anatomy page .....tons of links for anatomy and phys - you'll have to browse
Anatomy on the Internet .....more tons of links
The Biology Project - Biochemistry A nice overview of basic and bio chemistry
Interactive Activities A site of links to animations put together by another teacher. I haven't had a chance to go though these and weed out the bad ones, so you'll have to browse yourself.
Carl's Website Carl (Shuster, a teacher at another college) HAS gone through a ton of sites and done some weeding out. He's got this organized so that you should be able to find helpful sites on pretty much any biology topic.