MON 06
CNS Organization: Brain and Spinal Cord
Major brain regions, the spinal cord, and what each is responsible for.
BIO 304 · Week 5 of 8 · Jul 6 to Jul 12 · Nightly Pre-Work
The nervous system and the endocrine system.
Four pre-work days. Six topics. The CNS and PNS, the senses that feed them, and the endocrine system that runs in parallel. 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, Jul 6
First pre-work day
Discussion post
Fri, Jul 10
Initial post, 11:59 PM
Quiz opens
Fri, Jul 10
20 questions, 20 minutes
Discussion replies
Sun, Jul 12
Two replies, 11:59 PM
Lab workbooks
Sun, Jul 12
All four submitted, 11:59 PM
Quiz closes
Sun, Jul 12
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 07
PNS and Autonomic Nervous System
Cranial and spinal nerves, plus the sympathetic and parasympathetic split.
THU 09
Vision
Eye anatomy, image formation, and the visual pathway to the brain.
Hearing and Equilibrium
Outer, middle, inner ear. How sound becomes signal and how balance is sensed.
FRI 10
Hormone Mechanisms
How hormones reach targets and what they do once they get there.
Major Endocrine Glands
Pituitary, thyroid, adrenals, pancreas, gonads. Who releases what.
A note from me
Week 5, 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 17 is the CNS. Open it.
Brain and spinal cord first. PNS only makes sense after you have the central wiring down.
Open CNS Organization