Objective this week: To understand the importance of arthropods and their body plan, and to reach the level of mastery of insect body segments through the completion of the grasshopper dissection.
Monday
Arachnids - ticks and spiders
Tuesday
Grasshopper dissection 2
Wednesday
Ticks/spiders and transition to Insecta if time; review mouthparts & leg parts of grasshoppers
Thursday
Dissection wrap-up. Film dissection tutorials
Friday
Quiz - Ticks. Know: life cycle, tick facts (prevention, diseases, etc) , tick genders, tick anatomy, Lone-Star Tick identification and American Dog Tick identification
