12/14/09 Homeostasis

Today you will use various Internet or text/review books to answer questions on a worksheet. If you want to enlarge the text on any site, hold the ctrl key and roll the mouse wheel. Doing searches for: homeostasis, exocrine, endocrine, hormone, feedback, "negative feedback", stimulus, effector, receptor, set point, stimulus, response, or combinations of these words and other descriptors shouls make your searches more efficient.

This worksheet will be due on Tuesday, 12/15.

We will have a test on Thursday, 12/17/09. This will be on material from the units on body systems to the present.

Notes for the current unit, Homeostasis, are available in several formats:

• 2 slides per page in color, large format for viewing
• 6 slides per page in black & white, for economical printing
• 3 slides per page in black & white with room for notes on one side.
• The entire PowerPoint presentation with media included and a viewer in compressed (approx 12 MB) format.
• Link to a textbook for the current unit that follows the course presented in class.
  

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