MON 08
Levels of Organization
From atom to organism. The vocabulary the rest of the course uses.
Anatomical Terminology and Body Regions
Directional terms, body planes, regional names you will use every week.
BIO 304 · Week 1 of 8 · Jun 8 to Jun 14 · Nightly Pre-Work
Foundations, cell, membrane transport.
Four pre-work days. Six topics. Each topic page walks you through the reading, the fill-in-the-blank notes, the video, and then opens your nightly spaced-recall cards. Open one topic on Mon, Tue, Thu, Fri. Wednesday is catch-up and discussion.
How each pre-work session runs
Four steps, in order.
Same four steps every pre-work day. The order matters. The retrieval check is what makes the cards work.
01
Open the topic, print the workbook
Pick the day's topic from the list below. Print that day's lab workbook before you sit down. Breaking flow to find a printer is where good study sessions die.
02
Watch the short video
Finishing the video is what starts the retrieval gate. Read the fill-in-the-blank notes alongside it.
03
Write the 60-word check
Pull together what the video just taught you. Submitting unlocks the spaced-recall cards for the topic.
04
Run the nightly cards
DOK 1 to DOK 3 cards. They carry over into future Daily Reviews so the work compounds.
This week at a glance
Six dates to put on your calendar.
Week opens
Mon, Jun 8
First pre-work day
Discussion post
Fri, Jun 12
Initial post, 11:59 PM
Quiz opens
Fri, Jun 12
20 questions, 20 minutes
Discussion replies
Sun, Jun 14
Two replies, 11:59 PM
Lab workbooks
Sun, Jun 14
All four submitted, 11:59 PM
Quiz closes
Sun, Jun 14
11:59 PM, one attempt
Your four pre-work days
Open one topic per day.
Each topic links to its lecture page. The lecture page is the gate into your spaced-recall cards for that topic.
TUE 09
Homeostasis and Feedback Loops
Set points, receptors, control centers, effectors. The principle that holds the rest of the course together.
THU 11
Cell Structure and Organelles
The working parts of the cell and what each one does.
FRI 12
Membrane Transport
How material crosses the cell membrane. Diffusion, osmosis, active transport, the rules that follow.
A note from me
Week 1 sets the rhythm.
Each pre-work day takes about 30 to 45 minutes if you sit with it. The retrieval check is the part that makes it stick. Do not skip writing those 60 words, even when the cards look like the easier path.
If you fall behind on a day, do that day's topic first before moving to the next. The spaced-recall cards only schedule properly when you have done the work on the topic page first.
Dr. Sharilyn Rennie
Ready to start
Day 1 is two topics. Open the first.
Levels of Organization is the vocabulary the rest of the course is built on. Start here.
Open Levels of Organization