For Professors – Suggestions for setting up Laboratory excercises
Exercises
As already mentioned in the preface for Professors, this workbook is tailored for an easy set-up based on availability of equipment, real or cast skeletal remains and variety of laboratory settings.
- Assigning points per lab and per answer is up to the instructor.
- Each question on the labortory page is a station number. However, an instructor could use more than one station number per skeletal element. For example, one could use a right femur as three different stations. Station #1 (to identify the bone), station #4 (to side it), station #7 (for stature estimation), etc.
- Station numbers could be hand-written on flash cards, printed on glossy photo paper, laminated, etc.
- The same applies to sub-questions where identifications are A, B and C.
- Students that are enrolled in the laboratory have already completed or are concurently enrolled in Biological Anthropology theory course. In your institution however, these two courses could be combined into a single course. Regardless of the carricular set up, your students should have an access to the textbook used in the theory course, which they could use to prepare for the upcoming laboratories.
- Final exam laboratory is not included in this workbook, as it is up to the instructor to prepare one accordingly to personal preference and availability of laboratory materials and equipment.
