MON 15
Epithelial Tissue Classification
How epithelia are named and what each type does. Sheets that cover, line, and secrete.
BIO 304 · Week 2 of 8 · Jun 15 to Jun 21 · Nightly Pre-Work
Tissues and the integument.
Four pre-work days. Five topics. The four tissue types that make up every organ system you will meet for the rest of the course, plus the integument. 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 15
First pre-work day
Discussion post
Fri, Jun 19
Initial post, 11:59 PM
Quiz opens
Fri, Jun 19
20 questions, 20 minutes
Discussion replies
Sun, Jun 21
Two replies, 11:59 PM
Lab workbooks
Sun, Jun 21
All four submitted, 11:59 PM
Quiz closes
Sun, Jun 21
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 16
Connective Tissues
The most varied tissue type. Cells, fibers, ground substance, and what makes each connective tissue work.
THU 18
Muscle and Nervous Tissue Overview
The two excitable tissues. What makes a muscle a muscle and a neuron a neuron.
Skin Structure and Layers
Epidermis, dermis, hypodermis. The cells and layers that make skin work.
FRI 19
Skin Functions and Accessory Structures
Hair, glands, nails, and what skin does beyond covering you.
A note from me
Week 2, same 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 5 is epithelial tissue. Open it.
Epithelia are the simplest of the four tissue types and the right place to start. The naming system here pays off all course.
Open Epithelial Tissue