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Human Anatomy & Physiology Laboratory Manual: Making Connections, Cat Version



Human Anatomy & Physiology Laboratory Manual: Making Connections, Cat Version PDF

Author: Catharine C. Whiting

Publisher: Pearson

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Publish Date: January 17, 2015

ISBN-10: 0321787005

Pages: 784

File Type: PDF

Language: English

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Book Preface

Why Did I Write This Lab Manual?

I have been teaching in a wide variety of settings since I gradu-ated from the University of Georgia—as a laboratory assistant, as a high school teacher, as a graduate assistant, as a tutor/ mentor for college athletes, as an assistant professor of biology at a small liberal arts university, and, currently, as a professor of biology at the University of North Georgia. Regardless of the setting, I have always regarded teaching as an incredible oppor-tunity and a great privilege. Through the years, I have learned that effective teaching requires much hard work, dedication, and enthusiasm. It involves a life-long pursuit of both content knowledge and understanding how students learn. It involves challenging students to develop critical-thinking and problem-solving skills. Most importantly, it involves building relation-ships with students and investing in their lives. As a matter of fact, it was a late afternoon conversation with a group of stu-dents after lab in the fall of 2009 that inspired me to pursue writing a lab manual.

I set out to write a lab manual that was first and foremost a tool of engagement. In my experience, engaging students in an active learning environment is the key to student success in both the lecture and laboratory settings. When students are engaged, exciting things happen. Attendance improves. Students enjoy being in class. Grades soar! Students begin to focus on learning instead of worrying about what is going to be on the test. My hope is that instructors will be able to use and adapt the activities in this manual to cultivate their own active learning environment and to experience the joy of watching students fully engage in the learning process. Imag-ine having to run students out of the lab so that the next lab can get started. You will be amazed at what your students can accomplish when they are engaged, challenged, and inspired!

How Is This Lab Manual Different?

Human Anatomy & Physiology Laboratory Manual: Making Connections distinguishes itself from other A&P lab manuals by focusing heavily on addressing the three biggest teaching challenges for A&P lab instructors: getting students to engage in the lab, to prepare for the lab, and to apply concepts in the lab.

Getting Students Engaged in the Lab

For many instructors this is the #1 teaching problem in the lab course. The whole active-learning approach of Human Anat-omy & Physiology Laboratory Manual: Making Connections is centered around getting students engaged in the lab and ask-ing questions. We achieve this by including a rich variety of hands-on activities that use different learning modes including labeling, sketching, touching, dissecting, observ-ing, conducting experiments, interacting with groups, and making predictions.

This lab manual includes many tried and true lab activi-ties but also has some unique activities to help facilitate active learning, including those listed in the table below.


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