Overview

Digitial Zoology

Overview

Digital Zoology is designed to accompany whole animal Biology courses such as General Zoology, Invertebrate Zoology, and Vertebrate Zoology and is an interactive guide to the specimens and materials typically studied in laboratory and lecture sessions. Lab modules are currently the biggest components of Digital Zoology, and each contain illustrations, photographs, and annotations of the major structures of organisms and microscope slides commercially available from the suppliers used by high schools and universities. Lab modules are combined with explanations of the various animal groups and interactive cladograms that allow you to investigate the major evolutionary events that have given rise to the tremendous diversity of animals that we find on the planet.

Key Features

About the Digital Zoology Version 1.0 Student Workbook

The Student Workbook is designed to complement the specimens on the Digital Zoology Version 1.0 CD-ROM. If a particular taxon isn't included in this version of Digital Zoology, there won't be a chapter on it in the Workbook. In large part, Digital Zoology focuses on things that students will be able to see in their lab sessions.

Each Workbook chapter consists of the following:

A short description of the Defining Differences for the group of organisms (phylum or class) covered in the chapter

A Closer Look at a representative specimen for each taxon

A Structures Checklist allows students to keep track of the key structures for each of the specimens they examine

Crossword Puzzles test knowledge of key terms and concepts for each group

A Self-Test labeling exercise assists with lab preparation

Study Questions within each chapter explore some of the key concepts about the group of animals being discussed.
The Workbook is not intended to replace the zoology textbook or laboratory manual. Rather, it has been designed as a supplement to both.

About the Digital Zoology Version 1.0 CD-ROM

Digital Zoology Version 1.0 CD-ROM is organized around two components. The first provides illustrations, photos, and video clips of the various specimens that will help to understand the specimens and groups of animals that are commonly studied in the lab. The second involves interactive cladograms that explore the origins of the various animal taxa at the phylum, subphylum, and class level.

The Digital Zoology Version 1.0 CD-ROM contains over 35 different species, covering a full range of organisms from microscopic amoebas to vertebrates such as the frog and fetal pig. It provides students in whole animal biology courses such as General Zoology, Invertebrate Zoology, and Vertebrate Zoology with an interactive guide to the specimens and materials that they will be studying in their laboratory and lecture sessions. Each CD module is centered around a group of organisms (phylum or class) and consists of the following:

Photographs of specimens at various dissection stages

Annotations of the major structures of organisms

Illustrations of specific animals

Video clips of behaviors (such as movement, feeding, heart function) of certain specimens

Microscope slides

Lab modules are combined with explanations of the various animals groups, plus interactive cladograms that allow students to investigate major evolutionary events within groups

Drag-and-drop quizzes are labeling exercises to test knowledge of structures within specimens

All blue-highlighted key terms are linked to an interactive glossary, to help you learn the lexicon of zoology.

About the Digital Zoology Version 1.0 Web Site

The Digital Zoology Version 1.0 Web Site supports the interactivity of the Student Workbook, and hosts the following:

Interactive Crossword Puzzles from the Workbook, so that students may check their answers or work the puzzles on-line

Answers to the Workbook's Self-Test labeling exercises

Answers to the Workbook Study Questions within each chapter.